monitor problem

[47]

my monitor is about 1 month old. acer.
problem is that ive noticed that there are the kind of interference lines going from bottom up. its easiest to see in the forums on the gray background. this only occurs at 1920x1080 res, any other res is completely fine. 1920x1080 is the native res on this monitor. so, why am i getting these lines only at 1920x1080 ?

edit: the lines are full width of the screen and move slowly upwards. they are not very noticeable, but should not be there. i messed with the plug a bit, but that didnt help

 

[Steve]

acer crap montior

 

[td|35mm]

most probably your video card can't handle gradients at smaller resolutions ...

Also, the LCD screens are having issues showing the gradients proper at smaller resolutions. Is kind of normal ... for some low end monitors.

 

[Spinny]

yeah your piece of shit video card cant handle 1920... what vid card do u have gyp

 

[td|35mm]

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yeah your piece of shit video card cant handle 1920... what vid card do u have gyp
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Knowing him, is most probably a video card that render colors using as source crayolas .

 

[dead mike]

could it be the old VGA connection? there could be electrical interference with the signal that is only apparant at that high res.

vga sends an analog signal, the other kind (DVI?) which your 1970's era video card probably doesn't support, sends a digital signal which should not have interference like that.

 

[td|35mm]

^ nope ... that's not it.
has nothing to do with electrical interferences.

Is how gradients are displayed on his monitor. And these are more visible on darker gradients like this website has.

I've seen this happening a million times ...

 

[47]

1680X1050 works perfect, but doesnt look as good, its the weirdest thing i have ever seen. i dont think its the video card. ive had old old computers do 1600x1200.


funny thing, dead mike, its quite the opposite. brand new model of $300 monitor has a VGA plug (wtf!?!?). my GPU has only DVI. im using a converter.

spinny: im using 6600GT-OC

updated gpu drivers, no help

my monitor ONLY has vista drivers available. i run XP.
damn, acer is soooooo welfare

 

[OG buckshot jr]

You NEVER need ANY kind of drivers for a monitor... it's completely 100% plug and play...

Listen to 35, he's bang on the money. Try lowering brightness and contrast a little, it might relieve the problem a bit...

 

[td|35mm]

Actually BJr, drivers DO help. Depending on the brand name and how they build they products, drivers could make a HUGE difference. Plus ... it is NEVER a good idea to leave any piece of hardware run as a plug and play part.

Plug and play works ... but is not perfect!! As a matter of fact in some cases, it might eat more of your computer resources then it would with its driver.

 

[47]

thx for help guys, im noticing that the problem is becoming little worse. i am starting to suspect that my GPU is biting the dust, its runs red hot, the fan is fine.
i gotta test this monitor with another pc

 

[LT_Clash]

LCD monitors banding is normal so is a color shift from one side of your screen too the other even on higher end onse the left side of the screen is more red and the right side is more blue. its barly noticable but i deal with color at work all the time so it tends to get anoying after awhile.

i wish they still made crts, they were big as hell but they had perfect color and no banding issues unless they were dying.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

Buy a Samsung - no issues here, and certainly no colour issues like Taco is talking about...

@ 35 - Yes, but only if you're using onboard video. Because your monitor is plugged through your GPU, it's your GPU that needs the drivers. The monitor is only an extension to that GPU, and provides a picture. It is one-way data - the GPU sends graphical data to the monitor, and that's it - there's no communication back. Hence, no drivers needed.

 

[TD|night blade]

Wait, your LCD have a VGA connector but no DVI?! WTF? It does have HDMI right? Use that instead, go buy yourself a DVI to HDMI cable or adapter + cable, fxied & done.

Or, buy yourself a decent video card with HDMI, that 6600 is old as fuck.

 

[47]

THANK YOU EVERYBODY !!!

just tried it on another comp, everything perfect. monitor is fine and i love it. video card is slowly biting the dust !!

once again, thank you TD !!

fuck you , Steve

 

[47]

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Wait, your LCD have a VGA connector but no DVI?! WTF? It does have HDMI right? Use that instead, go buy yourself a DVI to HDMI cable or adapter + cable, fxied & done.

Or, buy yourself a decent video card with HDMI, that 6600 is old as fuck.
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i know eh ?? i WTF'd too. vga no dvi. has 2 hdmi though.

 

[td|35mm]

HAHA ... told ya :P Gypsy ... change that crayola video card.

 

[OG buckshot jr]

That's what happenes when you buy Acer or Dell...