I just bought a new 19" flat screen for a computer that doesn't yet exist. I'm trying it on my laptop right now, and there's something like waves on colors (it's just not visible on black). Tiny diagonal 1-pixel wide waves moving slowly. Most likely an optical effect but still, this is annoying.
Do you know what could be causing this ? Should I give up and return the monitor ? I installed the drivers and changed settings a bit everywhere but the damn thing stays that way.
Thanks.
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Anonymous2006-09-13 16:15
Wish I knew. My main monitor does that too. Tried updating drivers and switching video cards, meh, I've just had to get used to it.
What's funny is I use two monitors, a packard bell that's about 9 years old, and a dell that's about 3 years old, and it's the 3 year old monitor that's fucked up.
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Anonymous2006-09-13 16:17
Try the horizontal/vertical clock settings on the monitor's OSD.
Or try pressing the "auto" button (if it has).
Or try changing the monitor.
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Anonymous2006-09-13 17:15
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Anonymous2006-09-14 5:20
The 'auto' button does nothing to fix the problem, neither does changing the clock.
I tried the monitor on another computer (a desktop) and it doesn't seem to have those lines. I tried with another wallpaper, though, and I'm wondering if it wouldn't change the behaviour since colors are different.
I'm not going to get used to it. If it doen't work prpoperly, I'll return it and buy a pricier but hopefully more reliable one.
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Anonymous2006-09-14 6:07
Maybe I got used to it more easily because I live with a constant film of a kind of transparent tv-snow-like fuzz over my whole field of vision anyway.
But if it is only doing it on the laptop, not another computer, it's probably more related to the video card and drivers than the monitor itself.
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Anonymous2006-09-14 6:25
But if it is only doing it on the laptop, not another computer, it's probably more related to the video card and drivers than the monitor itself.
That would be good: it's not intended to be used with the laptop. I need to buy the parts to build the comp. Fast.
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Anonymous2006-09-14 8:23
use a DVI cable for your monitor. It should allow it to autodetect the clock settings and junk and it will improve the video quality immensely at resolutions of 1152x864 and higher.