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!

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 11:54

Dont have DVI just analogue

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 12:30

Nobody have any ideas?

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 12:58

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

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

moles · 14 Jan 2006 at 16:20

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

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 ******.

moles · 17 Jan 2006 at 08:51

a proper vga box. Name one

moles · 17 Jan 2006 at 08:55

cool thing. I'll have a look around thanks!

moles · 18 Jan 2006 at 10:09

hmm! I do have a kvm switch at my disposal but i couldn't get it to work without a keyboard link fromt the xbox. But with the USB converter it may just do the trick! Anyone had any experience with this?