CRT troubleshooting

[Trinitrotoluene]

I take that it is a bad thing if you have to set your horizontal stretch to 100% for the screen to be completely full with content. I have a dell p992 19" CRT and the sides of the screen have been getting shorter. Obviously this is not right, just thought I would include it. My real problem is that I am experiencing a lot of brightness flickering when I go from darker colored backgrounds to lighter colored ones. It is subtle but definitely noticeable. Any ideas? Fortunately I have a loving family member that is going to buy me an lcd in the near future. (when the new faster ones are supposed come out in late spring)

 

[EGGO]

Honestly, it sounds like that CRT is ready to hit the grave.

 

[Elledan]

It might be the horizontal sync-circuit which is dying, together with some other parts.

You'd definitely need to have an expert take a look at it if you want to fix those issues, and even then it might not even be possible, or very cheap.