Hi, I have a four year old Dell Dimension 4700. Recently I decided to buy a new 22 inch Samsung T220 LCD monitor to replace my dying old CRT. I installed the new monitor only to find the image to be grainy and blocky, almost shimmering in some places. There's also a lot of little lines on top of my browser bars. I've taken a couple screen caps since this is hard to describe and uploaded them to Flickr Flickr Photo Download: Screen problem 1 and Flickr Photo Download: Screen problem 2 Any idea of what's wrong and how to fix it? I've tried the analog and DVI hookups, I've installed the monitor drivers off the included CD, I've set it to what it said was the optimal resolution (1680 x 1050) as well as a bunch of others, and still nothing helps.

I run Windows XP, have 2 gigs of DDR2 ram, a 256mb GeForce 6800 graphics card and a Pentium 4 CPU.

Thanks

Hi Hobbes and welcome.

I am afraid I don't see what you are talking about. You images look fine here on my two Samsung 22" (2220wm-has) monitors. Did you upgrade your graphics card too? Before pulling out your hair I would quickly find another (preferably newer) computer to try that monitor on and see what happens.

I just looked at the Flickr images on another computer and they did look good. So then I hooked up the new monitor to that computer and...the monitor still looks bad in exactly the same way. I have no idea on what is going on.

Took a picture of a screen with a camera, looking at the blocky edges of certain shades of the sky you can see what's going on.

Flickr Photo Download: Picture 009

I would suspect the graphics card is not able to support the new monitor's resolutions. What card do you have?

A 256mb GeForce 6800

That should handle it - I would check the makers site for new drivers - and I would still try that monitor on another computer.

I hooked up the new monitor to that computer and...the monitor still looks bad in exactly the same way. I have no idea on what is going on.

Originally Posted by gfd333

I hooked up the new monitor to that computer and...the monitor still looks bad in exactly the same way. I have no idea on what is going on.

Who are you? This is Hobbes thread. If you have a problem, please start your own thread.