Monitor ghosting?

[A.I.]

I have a 17 inch Viewmaster crt monitor and i am getting ghosting. How do I get rid of it? I have tried the monitor's settings but i cant find the config to sharpen the image. Where is it?



Is it somewhere in the Nvidia control panel?

[Eagle]

Monitor ghosting is the result of your monitor's response time being slower than the frames per second (actually in this case, frames per millisecond) on the application you are running. How to fix it you ask? Buy a new monitor. Sorry but thats the only solution, your problem is strictly hardware and no software can solve it.

However, what you are experiencing is not ghosting, the reason I say this is because CRT monitors don't ghost... ever. Ghosting is a symptom only affecting LCD monitors due to their "capacitor" design. I don't know what you think you are seeing but it isn't ghosting.

[t0rek]

So there's hope for him

[A.I.]

Actually, it's not ghosting but magnetic lines which comes and goes which is really annoying. I think its from speaker wire which dangles behind my monitor and is touching it so I moved it and taped it to the wall. Its about 20 cm from the monitor now but at least its not touching it. The thing is I'm still getting this magnetic line in the middle of the screen which fluxiates and I also get magnetic ghosting from my curser and basically everything.

When I first turn on my monitor while I eat breakfast it's not so promient but after a few hours it gets worse. Howver today it hasn't been so badly behaved so I'm hoping it has learnt its lesson and that it is slowly dissappearing from sight. The monitor must have a good memory cos the line is still appearing but hopefuly it is getting forgetful and the line will leave and go to Antartica or some place cold....

[smcd]

Try degaussing the monitor and checking that your speakers etc are magnetically shielded? click here if not and you don't mind doing some work / are on the cheap.

[Flash]

BTW try to connect your monitor to another computer - it can be video card.

[A.I.]

BTW try to connect your monitor to another computer - it can be video card.

I just remembered I got a ADSL Modem Router on top of my computer. That puts out a magnetic field, doesn't it? That wouldn't be good for the computer, right?

[Allnatural]

A strong magnetic field would cause distortion near the edge of the screen (depending on the location of the field), not a "magnetic line in the middle of the screen" as you describe it.

Without pics it's hard to understand exactly what you're seeing, but here's two possibilities:

1. Artifacts from a failing video card. I had an old card that was overheating and it produced horizontal pink lines all over the screen.

2. If it's an aperture grill monitor, you may be seeing the stabilizer wires used to keep the grill from vibrating. These show up as faint lines running horizontally (1-3 lines, depending on the size of the monitor).

[A.I.]

A strong magnetic field would cause distortion near the edge of the screen (depending on the location of the field), not a "magnetic line in the middle of the screen" as you describe it.

Without pics it's hard to understand exactly what you're seeing, but here's two possibilities:

1. Artifacts from a failing video card. I had an old card that was overheating and it produced horizontal pink lines all over the screen.

2. If it's an aperture grill monitor, you may be seeing the stabilizer wires used to keep the grill from vibrating. These show up as faint lines running horizontally (1-3 lines, depending on the size of the monitor).

Well it must be no.2 - it describes my problem exactly and besides my video card is brand new (or was two months ago)

So what can I do? Is this a known problem with the CRT monitor? Or is it simply getting a little too old in the tooth now? (its nearly three yrs old) Is it a case to fix will cost more than a new monitor? If so I think I will eventually upgrade to LCD (wnen money flows from the sky) Im the meantime, I wont sit so close...

[Allnatural]

Well it must be no.2 - it describes my problem exactly and besides my video card is brand new (or was two months ago)

So what can I do? Is this a known problem with the CRT monitor? Or is it simply getting a little too old in the tooth now? (its nearly three yrs old) Is it a case to fix will cost more than a new monitor? If so I think I will eventually upgrade to LCD (wnen money flows from the sky) Im the meantime, I wont sit so close...

It's just a drawback of the aperture grill design, the price you pay for what is (according to some) better image quality. Nothing you can do about it I'm afraid.