Hello,
I purchased this monitor in March and I was using it exclusively on VGA because the colours were better (because they were adjustable) and because I used the DVI header for my TV to watch movies. I was using it at 1680x1050 @ 60Hz from day one, exactly as suggested in the product literature. I had no problems for about 2 weeks. One night, while fiddling with the horrible ATI multi-monitor settings I came across a problem... all of a sudden my picture was pinched (like a 16:9 picture squeezed into a 4:3 box) with dead space on the sides. Nothing I adjusted would fix it except to set the resolution below 1680x1050 (anything less worked), OR switch to DVI (which ran fine at 1680x1050 @ 60Hz). I have exhausted all tech support options in vain; they're horrible, horrible people with nothing better to do than make stupid suggestions to their clients, if they bother to communicate at all.
Right now what it comes down to for me is this: Is it the monitor, or the video card? My problem is I have *no* other video card or monitor capable of equivelant resolutions, and NO money to screw around with "maybe" fixes (I'm still paying off the monitor).
I took some pictures to explain the problem I am describing. In addition to the dead space/pinching, I noticed there is a lot of noise in the picture (similar to an out-of-phase signal or something like that). Here's what it looks like under DVI (overexposed so you can see the monitor edges better):
http://www.fusatia.com/misc/dvi.jpg
Now, here's the nasty VGA signal:
http://www.fusatia.com/misc/vga.jpg
Also, I tried it under SuSE 10.1 and it does the exact same thing (EXACT same thing), so it's not a windows/driver issue. My biggest question: is it the Video Card, or the Monitor? Is there a way to find out? Thanks for your input.
System specs:
Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis, 256Mb
AMD Athlon64 3000+
2x512Mb Mushkin DDR400
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939
I purchased this monitor in March and I was using it exclusively on VGA because the colours were better (because they were adjustable) and because I used the DVI header for my TV to watch movies. I was using it at 1680x1050 @ 60Hz from day one, exactly as suggested in the product literature. I had no problems for about 2 weeks. One night, while fiddling with the horrible ATI multi-monitor settings I came across a problem... all of a sudden my picture was pinched (like a 16:9 picture squeezed into a 4:3 box) with dead space on the sides. Nothing I adjusted would fix it except to set the resolution below 1680x1050 (anything less worked), OR switch to DVI (which ran fine at 1680x1050 @ 60Hz). I have exhausted all tech support options in vain; they're horrible, horrible people with nothing better to do than make stupid suggestions to their clients, if they bother to communicate at all.
Right now what it comes down to for me is this: Is it the monitor, or the video card? My problem is I have *no* other video card or monitor capable of equivelant resolutions, and NO money to screw around with "maybe" fixes (I'm still paying off the monitor).
I took some pictures to explain the problem I am describing. In addition to the dead space/pinching, I noticed there is a lot of noise in the picture (similar to an out-of-phase signal or something like that). Here's what it looks like under DVI (overexposed so you can see the monitor edges better):
http://www.fusatia.com/misc/dvi.jpg
Now, here's the nasty VGA signal:
http://www.fusatia.com/misc/vga.jpg
Also, I tried it under SuSE 10.1 and it does the exact same thing (EXACT same thing), so it's not a windows/driver issue. My biggest question: is it the Video Card, or the Monitor? Is there a way to find out? Thanks for your input.
System specs:
Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis, 256Mb
AMD Athlon64 3000+
2x512Mb Mushkin DDR400
Soltek SL-K8TPro-939
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