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Thread ID: 52257 2004-12-15 23:19:00 Ghosting effect on monitor... wintertide (1306) Press F1
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303149 2004-12-16 04:21:00 You may be right Graham, it certainly sounds like screen burn. Too many monitors are operated at full contrast and if they sit on their normal desktop for any appreciable time they will definitely produce icon or text burns.

I doubt very much that the cable will make any difference but try it, stranger things have been known to happen.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
Billy T (70)
303150 2004-12-16 05:11:00 It's definitely not screen burn - anything on the screen has a ghosting effect and it's not just limited to one place on the screen :(

I managed to get a picture of the effect on the screen but it's not a very good picture!

sal.neoburn.net

Look behind the icon to the right a little and you can see the ghost.
wintertide (1306)
303151 2004-12-16 05:26:00 OK, if it's an actual image ghost, that could be due to cheap cables, or lack of termination. Is there provision for a converter cable from VGA/DVI to three coax cables? Graham L (2)
303152 2004-12-16 05:31:00 No, there isn't, but there is another connector for a 13W3 cable (looks like a Sun monitor style cable connector). I forgot to bring another cable home but I will hopefully remember tomorrow night and it just might solve my problem! (fingers crossed)

EDIT: Thank goodness I remembered I had KVM switch cables :cool: another cable seems to have fixed it! Thanks for all your help guys! :)
wintertide (1306)
303153 2004-12-16 19:59:00 Sounds like the monitor might not have liked being moved. Ghosting could also be due to strong magnetic fields. Check that there are no other electronic equipment close by.

Our screen used to have a wobble. Turned out it was the speakers next to the screen were causing all the trouble, obivously they were not shielded.
Alpha (3520)
303154 2005-04-20 03:46:00 Is there any software which can fix ghost effect or can check ghost effect? apedix (6540)
303155 2005-04-20 04:04:00 Simply, no, apedix. Ghosting is not produced by software. It's produced inside the display, and it's always a fault -- signals being reflected in cables so they are repeated on the screen.

It's more commonly seen on TV screens, when it's produced by the signal arriving on the aerial by multiple paths. Monitor cables are usually well enough designed and made so it doesn't happen. Similarly, you won't normally see ghosting in TV pictures from a VTR or DVD player.
Graham L (2)
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