Connecting PC to Monitor Digitally

[Jceasar]

Okay now i have posted this question before but no one seems to know the answer. Maybe ill get lucky.

I currently have a ati radeon x300 se with dvi out AND vga out. I just bought a monitor 32" sony with HDMI input and with VGA input.

They sell cables that are able to go DVI-to-HDMI. So i did that, i went dvi from graphics card to hdmi on the back of the monitor. My problem is, the picture is not what i expect its very dull and such. I even tried a new graphics card a nvidia 6800. Nothing. Even an adapater. Nothing. I am using the VGA and its fine but thats an analog signal. I want a digital signal.

If anyone has ever heard of this issue or has any information please reply or msg me.

Thank you everyone,
JCeasar

 

[Matthias99]

the picture is not what i expect its very dull and such

Please describe your setup in more detail. Is this a CRT monitor or an LCD/DLP/Plasma display? If so, are you running at the panel's native resolution?

 

[Keeir]

ummm.... start off with a simple question

I assume you played with your color settings and "digital vibrance" setting in the Nvidia tools as well as the brightness/contrast of your display?

It mainly seems like a problem with the input on the monitor since the VGA is fine (and having two bum DVI out ports seems unlikely)

 

[Jceasar]

I have a sony 32" LCD with HDMI output on the back and the video card has DVI so i bought a dvi-to-hdmi cable and the quality is okay just everything is not picture perfect. I tried software such as powerstrip and everything else from drivers and all.

 

[Jceasar]

Still images such as pictures seem okay. text and desktop icons are smeared and blurry. I have tried adapters, new video card, everything. I do not think its the HDMI port on the back of the T.V because it displays the image and sound. And still images are fine.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Jceasar
Still images such as pictures seem okay. text and desktop icons are smeared and blurry. I have tried adapters, new video card, everything. I do not think its the HDMI port on the back of the T.V because it displays the image and sound. And still images are fine.

You must be outputting the wrong resolution/refresh. The blurriness/smearing is what you would see if the TV was trying to scale the image. What does the TV say it is receiving?
Are you outputting "720p" (1280x720@60Hz) or trying to use the monitor's native resolution (probably 13XXx7XX somewhere)?

 

[Jceasar]

Well the monitors max reso is 1366x768 on vga i use 1024x768 and its 100% perfect. When using the dvi-to-hdmi cable only thing that looks close enough to good is 800x600, all the rest such as 1280x768 or 1280x720 dont even work

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Jceasar
Well the monitors max reso is 1366x768 on vga i use 1024x768 and its 100% perfect. When using the dvi-to-hdmi cable only thing that looks close enough to good is 800x600, all the rest such as 1280x768 or 1280x720 dont even work

There's no way it's "100% perfect" at 1024x768 on a 1366x768 panel; the TV is scaling the image at that resolution.

It will obviously look like crap at 800x600. You need to feed it a 1366x768 signal, or at least 1280x720. Try setting it to the "HDTV" timings in Catalyst Control Center and see if the TV will lock onto the signal then.

You might want to search for your particular TV model over at AVSForum and see if they have any specific instructions for it. You could need to use Powerstrip to force a custom resolution in order to get proper results.

 

[Keeir]

Originally posted by: Jceasar
Well the monitors max reso is 1366x768 on vga i use 1024x768 and its 100% perfect. When using the dvi-to-hdmi cable only thing that looks close enough to good is 800x600, all the rest such as 1280x768 or 1280x720 dont even work

Have you tried 1366 by 768 as a resolution using the powerstrip program?

LCDs usually look the best at Native (maximum) resolution with DVI

 

[Jceasar]

I did try my maximum reso with powerstrip its overscaled and still not as clear as 1024x768. So i have no idea what else to do fellas.

 

[edplayer]

once you find the model number, go over to avsforum and do a search in the lcd forum. You shouldn't even need powerstrip to do 1366x768. Have you tried using the vga cable?