- Jul 28, 2004
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Odd problem here guys; I've never encountered something like this before.
I searched, and the closest issue I could find on this forum was a poor sap who had pretty much the same problem back in 2004, the question was never answered.
Link here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1241723
That's a long explanation, basically what's happening is this:
On this particular LCD, everything that's supposed to be solid black is rendered as black/red stripes. It's odd to explain and I can't exactly take a screenshot of it. It's not the VGA cable for sure, even when the cable it out and the monitor is doing its self test (a colored box bouncing around in a black background) the black background is striped red.
It seems like it does not want to display black at the most raw hardware level. All others colors that aren't dark have no problem. If I look at a high-res jpeg of something, it will appear normal if the image is overly bright, but when I zoom into the individual pixels, the ones that have any sort of black tone will have red fuzz dancing around inside its borders.
I'm not very keen on the innards of LCD monitors. Anything I can do?
I searched, and the closest issue I could find on this forum was a poor sap who had pretty much the same problem back in 2004, the question was never answered.
Link here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1241723
That's a long explanation, basically what's happening is this:
On this particular LCD, everything that's supposed to be solid black is rendered as black/red stripes. It's odd to explain and I can't exactly take a screenshot of it. It's not the VGA cable for sure, even when the cable it out and the monitor is doing its self test (a colored box bouncing around in a black background) the black background is striped red.
It seems like it does not want to display black at the most raw hardware level. All others colors that aren't dark have no problem. If I look at a high-res jpeg of something, it will appear normal if the image is overly bright, but when I zoom into the individual pixels, the ones that have any sort of black tone will have red fuzz dancing around inside its borders.
I'm not very keen on the innards of LCD monitors. Anything I can do?
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