CRT Issue

[TwistedMetalGear]

It's probably hopeless, but I'll describe it anyway. I bought a brand new 22" diamondtron about 2 or so years ago. It has worked flawlessly since, but I think it's on the way out, despite only being 2 years old.

I'll describe the problem with an example. Suppose I open up MSPaint and draw a black line running vertically against a white background. Directly to the right of this black line will be a couple of "shadows" (repeats) of the line, extremely faded in appearance, but noticable non-the-less. The shadows are equally spaced by a couple of pixels and there is about 3-5 of them (estimated). Seems to happen with darker colors against lighter colored backgrounds but I've seen it happen on various color combinations.

Anyone ever hear of such a thing with CRT monitors? Any fix, or is it time to move on to LCD? (long time LCD hater, but I don't have much of a choice it seems)

Thanks guys!

 

[Toompra]

I'm not positive but that sounds like a focus problem to me, diamondtrons are known to develop bad focus over time.. What model do you have? If its a 2141sb, 2070sb or 2111sb it will have 2 holes on the side of the monitor plastic for adjusting the internal focus pots. All you need is a long thin phillips head screwdriver and a decent text pattern to put up on the screen.

EDIT: oh yeah you also might wanna try a different vga cable, a bad one can also cause things like this.

 

[mathesar]

Sounds like a bad or loose VGA cable. Ive seen the same symptoms on my FW900 but wiggling the VGA cable made it go away, I just needed to tighten the VGA cable on the monitor side.

 

[Nenu]

Its possibly a bad cable or connection not allowing the electrically terminated connections to properly terminate the wire so the signal bounces up and down the wire, causing ghosting.

Another possible is that the brightness or contrast is set too high and the electron beam is dispersing creating multiple images.

 

[TwistedMetalGear]

Do VGA cables go bad over time? I tried wiggling it a bit to no avail. Both connections are very tight and the only end that's been unplugged in these past 2 years is the one going into the video card.