Magnets & Monitors Question!?!

Kind of a long time to have a problem unless you mean the Mag has been there for four months??

Does your montior have a degauss feature? if so try degaussing it.

Yes, it could be from that. It would of course depend on what the strength of the magnet was that was placed close to your monitor. The best thing to do is find someone that has a degaussing coil that is normally used to degauss TV's, and use it on your monitor to demagnetize it. This will straighten out your display.
One word of caution....If you use a degaussing coil, I would do it with the monitor disconnected from the computer, yet turned on, and well away from anything that might suffer the effect of a very strong magnetic force such as Floppy disks, Video tapes etc.

Some monitors have auto degauss on turn on, so you could try turning it on and off a few times to see if it improves, usually magnet effects on CRT tubes are instant, and fade over time, never known it to happen that they cause later problems. I think it is most likely another cause, like you moved the monitor.

It is easy to focus a monitor.  Unplug it, wait 5 minutes for high voltage to dissipate.  Remove plastic case.  Look for high voltage section (usually black plastic cube about 3" (8 cm) on a side.  It will have two adjusting scren heads (black plastic Phillips heads) - one is focus, the other is brightness.  Fiddle with the focus and see if it helps.

BTW, one more thing.  It _IS_ possible that the shadow mask was damaged by this magnet.  It's a very thin sheet of metal and can be bent by a magnet.  In that case, there is no possible repair but the degaussing operation is inexpensive and only takes a few minutes.

Thaks alot,

I didn't say it was the magnet but it could have been!
I have re-focused the monitor but the quality degrades every day!

THANKS