Monitor Displays Light Shadows
I Recently Bought a Second-Hand Monitor, Same Model as My First Monitor, in Order to Get Dual-Display with the Same Monitor Each Time. This Second-Hand Monitor...
I recently bought a second-hand monitor, same model as my first monitor, in order to get dual-display with the same monitor each time.
This second-hand monitor has an issue however : all pixels displayed are displayed again in a lighter shade on the right. You should be able to see the shadow of my black line as a gray line of the same thickness on this picture.
(This is a picture of a black line on white background.)
It doesn't seem to be related to any hardware outside the monitor itself, since I swapped the monitor with its older brother, which did not display the symptoms.
Is this a common issue in monitors, and is it fixable ?
1 Answer
It is the VGA cable, as indicated. VGA cables can develop defects over time and that may result in different cables working either correctly or incorrectly. Some VGA cables are just "bad." Swapping it out with a different, especially "known to be good" cable is the first trouble-shooting step to try.
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