When your Mac's output to the monitor you are using does not work properly, here are some things you can try. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

Troubleshoot to find out reasons why your computer monitor goes dim to the point where it turns on and off without your adjusting it as such. A properly functioning computer monitor maintains a ...

On Windows 10 and 11, you can use these steps to fix a second monitor not detected on your PC, and here's how.

Encountering a computer that turns on but has no display can be a frustrating and stressful experience, especially if you have something important to do. In such a situation, you might worry about ...

You can complete about as much work on a computer that gets stuck in standby as you can on one that won't boot at all. To work your way past these kinds of operating problems, you need to diagnose ...

The built-in Windows Reliability Monitor remains an oft-overlooked troubleshooting gem. It’s actually a specialized part of Windows’ general-purpose Performance Monitor tool (perfmon.exe). While more ...

One of the perks of writing for Hackaday is that we often find hacks that we’ve been meaning to do ourselves. Here’s one that will let us fix our borked ASUS computer monitor buttons. [Silviu] has the ...

Many years ago, High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) was born because the film industry freaked out over releasing digital movies that would flow digitally—rather than through analog ...

Your film, 1994 Computer Lab, is in post-production. While reviewing the dailies, you’ve noticed a big problem. The CRT monitors in every shot have fat, dark lines scrolling vertically on their ...