Monitor Ghost Lines

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Michael Enzweiler

I was playing around with putting a second video card into my windows pc
so as to connect a second monitor. In doing so, I mistakenly plugged my
newer, better monitor into the older second video card. I quickly
corrected the mistake, but the damage was already done. The result is
that my beautiful monitor now has gray 'ghost lines' that extend from
side to side where dark things, like the dark blue bar at the top of a
window. Text on a white word processor screen creates a gray shadow
like a highlight line wherever the text is. This whole experience
surprised me because I'be plugged various pc's and monitors together
with wild abandon many times with no problem.

I've tried degausing the monitor, but nothing seems to help. Am I
correct in assuming that I'm screwed and need a new monitor, or is there
some miraculous secret out there, like submurging my monitor in Mountain
Dew that will revive its pristine image? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Michael
 
I was playing around with putting a second video card into my windows pc
so as to connect a second monitor. In doing so, I mistakenly plugged my
newer, better monitor into the older second video card. I quickly
corrected the mistake, but the damage was already done. The result is
that my beautiful monitor now has gray 'ghost lines' that extend from
side to side where dark things, like the dark blue bar at the top of a
window. Text on a white word processor screen creates a gray shadow
like a highlight line wherever the text is. This whole experience
surprised me because I'be plugged various pc's and monitors together
with wild abandon many times with no problem.

I've tried degausing the monitor, but nothing seems to help. Am I
correct in assuming that I'm screwed and need a new monitor, or is there
some miraculous secret out there, like submurging my monitor in Mountain
Dew that will revive its pristine image? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Michael
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I've seen problems going the OTHER way, Mike...a newer card on a
monitor that couldn't handle the resolution. But I've never seen a
problem doing what you did.

Things I'd try...assuming you've gone back to the original, good
card...

Make sure yer running the proper drivers for that card now. You might
even want/need to reinstall the drivers.

Also, make sure the resolution is set properly.

If you have a diagnostic/maintenance program for that card, look at
its options. Maybe you can run something within that program that
will fix the problem.

And look at the setting for that monitor in Device Manager. If it
doesn't show the name of that monitor, yer probably drivin' the wrong
drivers.

One more...

Try booting into a system disk...then run a DOS program that will give
you a lot of text. Even a DIR /p in a large directory oughta do it.
See how it looks.

If it looks okay, its then probably just some drivers that got hosed
somehow.


Good luck....let us know.


Have a nice week...

Trent

If the cheese isn't yours...its Nacho cheese, man!
 
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