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Paelos
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A coworker of mine has recently encountered an issue with his display. Funny shadings are appearing on the screen that look almost like shadows. I could compare it to when you have a bad cable connection and another channel is ghosted in the background. In Outlook every other email line looks like it is shaded grey, when there shouldn't be any color at all.
He had an old monitor, and he updated it to a new one, but the problem remains. I was guessing it could be a driver issue he's having with the Nvidia card, but I'm not sure. Changing the color and size display settings do not help. Any thoughts?
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Shavnir
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Is it sitting on top of a large magnet? :|
I can't think of much else that might do it...I'm fairly certain VGA ports don't experience "burn in" like CRTs do.
I presume you've probably tried degaussing, upgrading / rolling back drivers and sosuch?
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kidder
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...or is there a radio or space heater nearby? Electric clock radio, something unshielded that is causing interference.
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Paelos
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There's a fan, that's about the only thing i can think of. I don't think that's it though.
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DarkDryad
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Electric motors are one big fuggin magnet. Move the fan and try degausing it should clear it up. Other than that the card is the next culprit.
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BWL is funny tho. It's like watching a Special Needs school take a field trip to a minefield.
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Shockeye
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A coworker of mine has recently encountered an issue with his display. Funny shadings are appearing on the screen that look almost like shadows. I could compare it to when you have a bad cable connection and another channel is ghosted in the background. In Outlook every other email line looks like it is shaded grey, when there shouldn't be any color at all.
He had an old monitor, and he updated it to a new one, but the problem remains. I was guessing it could be a driver issue he's having with the Nvidia card, but I'm not sure. Changing the color and size display settings do not help. Any thoughts? I had a problem similar to this a couple months back on an old computer. I changed video cards and everything went back to normal. |
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Morfiend
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I am having wierd monitor things happening also. My monitor does 2 odd things.
The first thing is does, is some times it will all of a sudden switch resolutions to be like a widescreen TV. IE, the top and bottom will compress in. It will do this for like 3 seconds, then pop back to normal.
The other thing it is doing is some times it will randomly turn off, and then back on again instantly.
It has been doing this for about 3 months. Not often enough to be a real problem, but enough to worry me. Also, I have been through a vidcard upgrade, and nothing chaged. So its not the card. Are these signs that my monitor is reaching the end of its life? I get the feeling its days are numbered.
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HaemishM
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That sounds like a dying monitor to me. Though I'm hardly the expert on such matters.
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WonderBrick
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DarkDryad
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I am having wierd monitor things happening also. My monitor does 2 odd things.
The first thing is does, is some times it will all of a sudden switch resolutions to be like a widescreen TV. IE, the top and bottom will compress in. It will do this for like 3 seconds, then pop back to normal.
The other thing it is doing is some times it will randomly turn off, and then back on again instantly.
It has been doing this for about 3 months. Not often enough to be a real problem, but enough to worry me. Also, I have been through a vidcard upgrade, and nothing chaged. So its not the card. Are these signs that my monitor is reaching the end of its life? I get the feeling its days are numbered. Ye olde mo0nitor is on its way out. |
BWL is funny tho. It's like watching a Special Needs school take a field trip to a minefield.
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