my PC monitor is fixed! at the moment. this happened too last night. when it only showed 1/4 of the screen last night, i still continued the things i was doing in my PC (updating the media library, downloading some stuff). just shows how much of an addict i am. wont stop using my PC even if i dont see the entire screen. going to use it as long as i possibly can regardless of the circumstances. well, last night, the screen went back to normal for a few minutes. so i thought the problem was resource related. but minutes later, it broke down again. started closing some applications and it didnt help. restarted it for a couple of times and still no luck. thats why i finally concluded that it might be the PC monitor. a few minutes ago i thought, it might be video card related. i wanted to make sure what the problem was or at least consider all the possibilities i can think of. so i started looking at the monitor properties to see if it was working properly. it said the device was working properly. but of course that doesnt rule out that the monitor is busted. i think the device is working properly refers to non-hardware defects. so i looked at the troubleshooting portion and read all related topics. none of it refers to my current problem. and after a few minutes, i finally closed the troubleshooting window and as i clicked to close it, the PC screen went back to normal. but i havent resized it back to its normal size. im a skeptic. i still doubt whether the PC monitor (so far, it seems its really the PC monitor thats the root of the problem, i cant think of other possible problems not related to the PC monitor) is actually fixed. so im still going to let the PC run (i didnt switch it off when i posted my last blog entry, i used the PC as a cd player for a while to see if the screen will go back to normal, which it did!) to see how long this will take. so im monitoring my monitor.