Can monitors cause crashes?

[mecharmor25]

Is there any possibility that a faulty monitor can send a corrupted signal back to the computer causing your computer to hang abruptly?? Can a faulty sound speaker do this also too??

Because I remember having swapped and exchanged just about every component more than once, which is why I am thinking if externaly connected devices weather input or output may cause system crash. Assuming most members here are regulars, I have posted in the past about sudden freezes.

No I am NOT using a touch screen, just a plain old CRT and a old one at that. No pun intended. But I don't know if monitors are in someway suppose to respond back by sending a return signal to the computer. If that is the case then if the return signal from the monitor to computer is corrupt it might freeze.

The only reason I single out my monitor is because every component except the monitor has been exchanged several times. Anyway below are my specs. Correct me about monitor crashing possibilities if I am wrong.

Enlight 350W psu
Asus P5P800 SE mainboard socket 775 bios ver 0803
2x 512MB OCZ RAM
pentium 4 631 dual core 3.0GHZ
Geforce 6800 512MB forceware ver 78.01
Onboard soundmax soundcard
Linksys wireless-G PCI card
Quantum 200GB hd
Maxtor 40GB hd
1 generic floppy drive
creative DVD-R
using windows xp professional

[Aided Onslaught]

Not that I know of. MOnitor are even hot swappable. The signal just goes in, so I don't see why it would matter on less there is some type of a cross wire that sending a signal back?

[KillerShots]

If your monitor for whatever bizarre reason came with a driver and you installed the driver, then it might crash on odd (or even normal) signals. That would be about the only possible case.

[Hard core Rikki]

The monitor is only an analog output. As killershots said, only an unlikely driver fault couse cause such a failure.

More seriously, check the crt cabling and gpu drivers, these are the more likely "failure" factors.

[ChankastRules]

Well, like they said only a faulty driver could cause it... but it is HIGHLY unlikely! You've said you've swapped every component several times.. does that include for example your hard-drive?

[ViperXtreme]

yep, but when you physicaly move abruptly the VGA/DVI connector in the video card it might interfere a bit with the agp/pci-e interface and will sometimes cause crashes, happened last time with my ancient 5900XT.

[BigIg]

Originally Posted by ViperXtreme

yep, but when you physicaly move abruptly the VGA/DVI connector in the video card it might interfere a bit with the agp/pci-e interface and will sometimes cause crashes, happened last time with my ancient 5900XT.

Yeah, make sure your video card is screwed in nice and tight. I once had a audio card not screwed in all the way, and everytime I hit the sound cable, my computer either froze or BSODed.