SOYO 24" black screen

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rperre

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Hey I bought the SOYO 24" and I'm very happy with the screen, but there is a noticable shadow everywhere it depicts something running it with a VGA cable + VGA extension cord. When I hooked up the supplied 6' DVI cable, this was gone. So I bought a 15' DVI-D to DVI-D cable and hooked it up........... the screen goes blank and stays blank??????????????????? Hooking the VGA back up, and everything is there.

I'm running this screen with a Quad Core Q6600 and a BFG 8800 GTS 320Mb OC. I run RS Vegas, and it's very smooth at 1920x1200, so I'm happy, just want to get rid of the shadows that are present now.

Can it be that my PSU is not providing enough power to push 1920x1200 through the digital connection? (it's only a 430W I think)

Here is a picture to show what I mean with the shadows, again with the supplied 6' DVI cord this is not present at all, the 15' cord just gives me a black screen, I can't even get the menu to come up.

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Thank you,

Richard
 
If the six foot cable is fine and the fifteen foot isn't, then the fifteen foot cable is most likely the culprit.
 
I agree with dj_2004, it sounds to me like the 15' cable is the problem. However, I don't know if it's because 15' is just too long for the quality of the cable, or if the cable is bad. Best thing is to take the cable back and exchange it for another one. If a second cable does the same thing, then 15' is too long.
 
Hey, thanks for the reply. I'm starting to think the same. I measured the cable and it seems to be normal, but I'll try another one to make sure.
Is the picture showing up for you now?

Richard
 
I think we need to see an actual picture of what he is describing to us, not a capture of his display. What the computer is outputting to the display (what the print screen capture is showing) is not the same as what the display is showing to the user.
 
EDIT: Oh you bought a 15ft DVI cable and it doesn't work...

Distance shouldn't matter, it's the same information... it doesn't really have to "push" it much further...

I'd just double-check your cable connections... Check the monitor settings...
 
15' is too long for DVI, I think that's about the maximum length that DVI cables are theoretically able to transmit data for.
 
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