On cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, increasing the refresh rate decreases flickering, thereby reducing eye strain. However, if a refresh rate is specified that is beyond what is recommended for the display, damage to the display can occur.
The loss of a cylinder...what does that mean. I believe my number 1 cylinder is either dead or at this point it's compression level is near 0. So with the car being a 98 Ford Taurus 6 cylinder/3.0 ohv engine, outside of just bad engine performance what else can i be looking at as the engine slowly dies. If it has near ZERO compression and you intend to continue driving until the bitter end you might disconnect the injector on that cylinder.
Overheating is normally associated with blown head gaskets, but the cylinder head and engine block can fail nearly as easily, and do fail in many cases. Driving the vehicle when a known head gasket issue is present can or will result in head gasket failure, cylinder head failure, engine block failure, or a combination of the three.