Acer 19" Weird shadows -ghosting

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 11:40

I've just got my self a widescreen acer 19" AL1916W. Its a beautiful monitor and all my games are just amazing on it not to mention the xbox 360!!! Anyway, the problem i am having is when i'm in windows there is "static" ghosting if that makes sense. I have no ghosting problems with moving images but there are always "shadows" behind things. Tried to take a photo of it but my camera is not having it. Like my cursor has about 4 very faint copies of itself shadowing behind it. Everything has this slight shadow. I'm running the monitor on a ATI asus x800xt and running the monitor at the recommended resolution which is 1440x900.... Anybody have any idea what i can do to make the shadows go away?

Thanks!

Chaapa'ai · 14 Jan 2006 at 11:43

DVI is in use, correct?

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 11:54

Dont have DVI just analogue

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 12:30

Nobody have any ideas?

smsmasters · 14 Jan 2006 at 12:50

Have you tried to manually adjust phase control?

smsmasters · 14 Jan 2006 at 12:50

Is it just the cursor that has shadows or is it everything?

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 12:58

it seems to be everything... what is phase control?

smsmasters · 14 Jan 2006 at 13:02

http://www.techmind.org/lcd/phasexplan.html

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 13:48

hmmm everthing seems to check out as far as those tests go. Wonder what it could be?

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 14:37

guess i'll just fiddle about with settings

nomadpete · 14 Jan 2006 at 15:04

used to get this on an old crt - in games were fine, desktop was shocking. would you believe - was down to a dodgy vga cable. never seen it on my lcd though - probably as i switched to DVI.

try unplugging everything, straighten all the leads, check the pins etc.

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 16:20

cool thing! I'll try that when i get home. Thanks mate!

Carter · 14 Jan 2006 at 17:04

I've seen this before, it was a poor quality vga cable.

ACPCUP · 14 Jan 2006 at 17:59

What about the wrong settings? Refresh etc? Would that cause that?

bigjonnyauk · 15 Jan 2006 at 00:03

you havent got the shadows turned on in the settings have ya daft as it sounds but u never know lol

Slyman · 15 Jan 2006 at 14:36

I had this on my 22" crt and that was down to a dodgy VGA cable.

moles · 17 Jan 2006 at 08:46

turns out it was the switch box i was using so that i can play xbox 360 and use the pc through same tft. Plugged it in directly and its crisp! Anyone got any ideas for a better solution than the switch box i'm using? its a standard data switch box from ******.

james.miller · 17 Jan 2006 at 08:49

a proper vga box maybe? this is the only reason where you would have been better off getting the viewsonic

moles · 17 Jan 2006 at 08:51

a proper vga box. Name one

james.miller · 17 Jan 2006 at 08:53

vga box+? or a 4 port vga 350hz box?

to be honest, they dont have names. google is your friend since you know i cant link to competitors who stock them.