Monitor problem

[Iger]

Hello,
I've just bought a Samsung 795MB monitor, it looks really well, and the brightness lvls, which are achievable - are awesome, but I've noticed a strang glitch - whenever I'm looking right on my desktop, and try to press start menu button, the displayed area's edges are a bit readjusted. The whole picture becomes a bit narrower (from upper to lower edges) and a bit wider (from left to right). It also happens, when I open my browser, and some more programmes, and actually, seems to be related to the general "brightness" of the picture... When in some monitor test, the picture goes from black straight to white the picture's "jump" is _very_ noticeable.
When I've checked it with my older CTX monitor - it really looked much better and the "jump" was _barely_ noticeable (but I'm pretty sure, I see the picture jumping nevertheless!).

I wonder, if anyone has some ideas on what is going on, and how could I fight it... As when you are alt+tabbing much - the picture's jumps become really annoying

Thanks in advance!

 

[ChrisQuintero]

obvious answer, but does it look like its ghosting then?

 

[VirtualLarry]

If you've "just bought" monitor, then it probably has some sort of HV regulation problem. It might be wise to RMA it, that could be an indication that you might have further problems with it in the future, sooner than would normally be expected.

I have a semi-ancient NEC 17" that I got used, and the display area barely moves on that screen in the Nokia monitor-test program, neither did most of my other (better-quality) monitors. If it "jumps" noticeably, especially on a recently-purchased brand-new decent-quality monitor, then there is a problem. I've seen similar issues before, and generally, that's an indication of a crap-quality monitor, or a defect in a good one.

 

[Iger]

No, doesn't look, like it's ghosting at all. Quite sharp... excellent picture even pulls 100Hz@1024x768 contrary to the specs (tried the test at lower freqs with the same result... and even at lower resolutions - so that doesn't seem to be the case)

Yeah, I'm thinking about RMA, just wanted to get sure, that I'm not missing something well-known...

Thanks for the answers!