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Hi all,
I recently bought a 22 inch Asus monitor. There are these horizontal lines that seem to run across my screen. They aren't noticable on a white background, but on a dark background they drive me insane. I was wondering if this problem could be alleviated by buying a VGA to DVI adapter. If so, are there any recommendations as to which product I should buy? I'd personally like to buy a cheap plug and play adapter ($20-40). I don't want to buy a converter that costs upward of $200.
Thanks in advance.
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They make straight up DVI to VGA cables at most electronic retail stores, best buy sells them for like 20 bucks I think.
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Thanks for replying, I was aware of these. However, I'd like to have product recommendations before I buy things at best buy. To me personally, I find some of their stuff hit or miss or overpriced.
Also, I'm still wondering if the horizontal lines will go away if I actually do spend money to buy an adapter.
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motbob
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are you sure that it isn't the monitor that is defective?
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I think tech support would be more effective in person. Send the monitor in, and they should be able to help you. Then again, most tech support is incompetent. Honestly, I can't think of anything, but it could be your cable is simply messed up. I personally use DVI whenever I use external screens and I have had some good results with it. Try to see the compatibility with DVI before you try it. I recently bought an adapter similar to this, and it wouldn't work at all. Just check before hand before you waste 20-40 dollars on an adapter.
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I run DVI to VGA converters on multiple monitors and had experienced no problem.
Clock/Phase adjustment for the monitor might be wrong. An LCD I used to have started flickering after two years and that was at fault.
Also there might be interferences from the 50/60 Hz power lines. I would suggest checking the monitor before buying a more expensive adapter.
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They cost less than $2 on ebay
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So what are you using right now? a VGA cable?
Doesn't your graphic card have DVI ? or maybe HDMI?
An adapter doesn't magically get a better signal, unless the problem is the vga port at the monitor.
But a VGA to DVI adapter shouldn't be more than a few dollars.
It would be good to know more about your pc/graphics card.
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I have a laptop, just integrated graphics. Nothing special. I hope that it isn't the LCD that's a problem as I have to ship it back for 20 dollars or so (which is why if the cable can help repair the problem, i'd rather do that than package and ship)
I use the 22 in monitor because I like to be able to have it double as my TV and as an awesome monitor to read pdf files on 
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On February 05 2009 06:43 Not_Computer wrote:
are you sure that it isn't the monitor that is defective?
I'm not sure the monitor is defective, it's what I'm trying to figure out ^_^;;
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Well you could buy an adapter (the ones that came with my video card do the trick for me) or you could take it to the store and make them give you a new one.
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The thing is I bought it online, so nothing I do would be in person. This is a major drawback of buying things online -_-;;
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