Video Card or Monitor

[NegatiZE]

Hello everyone...

I recently bought an NEC MultiSync LCD1765 17" flat panel monitor. Love it. Except for one thing:

I get these weird faint diagonal lines in the monitor. They move rapidly across the screen diagonally and it's hard to see them unless you get up close to the monitor. They show up better on blue parts of the screen from what I've observed.

I do have a 6 year old Presario PC w/ a TNT2 Ultra graphics card installed. Perhaps this is the problem? Other than that, I have no qualms with the monitor at all. I'm going to try and hook up the monitor to my friend's GeForce PC and see if it does the same thing tonight, hopefully I can figure this out.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Tango57]

hmm...what's your refresh rate at? try increasing it to the highest setting allowable. also make sure it's not sitting next to any speakers.

 

[NegatiZE]

The manual says native resolution is 1280x1024 @ 60Hz, so that's what I'm running at. I've tried all the refresh rates the monitor allows, and they all do the same thing. It's weird.

I took the monitor to my friend's house. The monitor is fine, apparantly it's my old and outdated graphics card. The monitor looks perfect on his GeForce2.

I guess it's time to upgrade teh computer.

 

[Algere]

Does 60Hz hurt your eyes?

 

[NegatiZE]

Not at all. Keep in mind this is an LCD and not a CRT where the flicker is headache-inducing. The screen is perfect.

 

[Tango57]

wow, i get headaches on my LCD if it's at anything lower than 70 mhz.

 

[4x4expy]

The refresh rates on LCDs are not adjustable as they are with CRT's.

 

[howdyduty]

Ohh, 60 is painful. Recommend 85. You might experiment with different resolutions and refresh rate combos to see if the lines go away.

 

[NegatiZE]

Well everyone, the problem's fixed. It ended my up being my antiquated Diamond Viper V770 Ultra video card. I swapped it out with a friend's old TNT2 ultra (but made by ASUS) and viola, no lines.