Help! Just got a new (to me) monitor that a friend disposed of; plugged
it into my 'puter, but it looks horrible.

Monitor is a 19" flat-screen (not flat-panel) Dell Trinitron (which I
assume is actually a Sony tube?). Friend said it was working fine for
him (he got rid of it since he got a flat-panel display to replace it).

Previous monitor works fine, color-wise, so I know it's not my video
card. This is on a PC (standard SVGA). I have my display set at
1152x864, 32-bit True Color, if it makes a diff.

The plug looks fine; no bent or missing pins (well, except for pin 10,
which is missing in purpose on all SVGA plugs).

The display is very low contrast and washed-out looking, even with the
contrast control cranked all the way up. Plus there are several (9, to
be exact) diagonal lines across the width of the screen. Degaussing (via
OSD) makes no difference.

Not a huge deal, since this was a freebie, but I'd like to know if
there's some easy fix here before I pitch this thing.


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David Nebenzahl wrote:
Help! Just got a new (to me) monitor that a friend disposed of; plugged
it into my 'puter, but it looks horrible.

Monitor is a 19" flat-screen (not flat-panel) Dell Trinitron (which I
assume is actually a Sony tube?). Friend said it was working fine for
him (he got rid of it since he got a flat-panel display to replace it).

Previous monitor works fine, color-wise, so I know it's not my video
card. This is on a PC (standard SVGA). I have my display set at
1152x864, 32-bit True Color, if it makes a diff.

The plug looks fine; no bent or missing pins (well, except for pin 10,
which is missing in purpose on all SVGA plugs).

The display is very low contrast and washed-out looking, even with the
contrast control cranked all the way up. Plus there are several (9, to
be exact) diagonal lines across the width of the screen. Degaussing (via
OSD) makes no difference.

Not a huge deal, since this was a freebie, but I'd like to know if
there's some easy fix here before I pitch this thing.




If it happened suddenly, it may have been damaged in moving it around. I
know the 22" Sony tube monitors have an issue with the brightness going
up over time, there's a hack to add a resistor to bring things back down
to where they should be.

"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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Help! Just got a new (to me) monitor that a friend disposed of; plugged it
into my 'puter, but it looks horrible.

Monitor is a 19" flat-screen (not flat-panel) Dell Trinitron (which I
assume is actually a Sony tube?). Friend said it was working fine for him
(he got rid of it since he got a flat-panel display to replace it).


It's amazing what some people deem 'working fine', it's all about
perceptions. Maybe he could see it and tell you if it's how he remembers it?

Previous monitor works fine, color-wise, so I know it's not my video card.
This is on a PC (standard SVGA). I have my display set at 1152x864, 32-bit
True Color, if it makes a diff.

The plug looks fine; no bent or missing pins (well, except for pin 10,
which is missing in purpose on all SVGA plugs).

The display is very low contrast and washed-out looking, even with the
contrast control cranked all the way up. Plus there are several (9, to be
exact) diagonal lines across the width of the screen. Degaussing (via OSD)
makes no difference.

Not a huge deal, since this was a freebie, but I'd like to know if there's
some easy fix here before I pitch this thing.


Any CRT which displays retrace lines has to be suspect. IOW, the CRT is
likely near the end of its life. It's not a cast iron certainty, but quite
likely.

Morse

"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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The display is very low contrast and washed-out looking, even with the
contrast control cranked all the way up. Plus there are several (9, to be
exact) diagonal lines across the width of the screen. Degaussing (via OSD)
makes no difference.

Brightness is too high. Sometimes there are internal 'master' contrast and
brightness controls, however mark the position of any that you alter with a
pencil first.





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Please, don't open a monitor, unless you are quite familiar with them!
You can get a bad shock, or
worse! This is one way to do a "work around", for the problem! I have
done a couple, & it works fine.
You MAY have to "tweak" the exact resistor value, to get a good G-2
"range"! Hope this helps, Dani.

Dani spake thus:

Please, don't open a monitor, unless you are quite familiar with them!
You can get a bad shock, or
worse! This is one way to do a "work around", for the problem! I have
done a couple, & it works fine.
You MAY have to "tweak" the exact resistor value, to get a good G-2
"range"!

You must not have read my reply up there in this thread. I managed to
get it looking fine by using a built-in function (which, by the way, I'm
still curious to know what exactly it does: it's called "COLOR RETURN"
in the "OPTION" menu).

So what, pray tell, is a "G-2" range? Don't worry; I know all about
resistors, and high voltages, and shocks, and all that. No need to
nanny-state me with all the dire warnings.


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Just as McDonald's is where you go when you're hungry but don't really
care about the quality of your food, Wikipedia is where you go when
you're curious but don't really care about the quality of your knowledge.

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"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
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So what, pray tell, is a "G-2" range?

G2 voltage. See any book on how TV sets work.