LCD looking very yuck!

[eazye1974]

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Hi all, Im a noob here and first of all i must say having read some of the posts there are a lot of very helpful and technical experts here.

My issue is that I have a Dell XPS 720 with a 22inch LCD monitor that has both DVI and analogue connections (thats white and blue connections) Since I got the machine, Ive always used an analogue cable with a DVI adaptor to connect to my pc, as the graphics card is GeForce GTX 8800 with dual DVI connections.

the other day I decided that I wanted to use digital rather than analogue to play my games and watch TV, and to, you know, use the power of the machine to enjoy HD. So what I did was use the DVI to DVi cable that was supplied with the machine to hook up to the White connecton on the monitor. Everything now looks blueish and I cant see any reds. What is going on here? I tried messing around with the monitor settings to no avail, however when I use the monitors lcd conditioning setting, i can see red amongst other colours when it does its conditioning thing.

So can anyone have an idea im totally lost? Please help me before I trun back to the bluse analogue side.

Thanks heaps in advance. Thanks mates.

 

[coldmeat]

My parents told me one time that there monitor was all blue and they thought something was wrong. It was just that the cable wasn't plugged in all the way. Or maybe the cable you are using is just bad. Do you have another DVI cable you can try?

 

[Shadowknight]

Be sure you have the right type of DVI cable. Some do just analog, some do just digital, and some support both digital and analog.