The Sony Trinitron we've got here at work has a "Convergence" option in the menu, which adjusts horizontal and vertical blurriness of the images. Maybe you're convergence is maladjusted? Hopefully it's an option on your Sony also...
Good luck!
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited September 2003
GH, tried that too... although it made the text sharper, the "ghosting" or "blurring" or whatever is still there...
Ah, well... I guess I'm going to have to say what the other guys said then: repair man.
Sounds to me like your electron gun is out of focus. If that's the case, I'm sure that you can resolve this without having to buy another monitor... how long is Sony's warranty? Can you just RMA it?
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited September 2003
3 years. Says it was made 9/01 (which is strange, since I bought it in August '01 when I bought my Athlon system, but whatever... I'm not complaining )
I have the SAME monitor as you man! Except I have the $600 19" version from about 2 or 3 years ago as well. I have a slightly less than, but same problem as you.
Go into the Monitor Control panel thing and there is a place to kinda fix the issue, I am at school doing HTML atm(ugh), butw hen I get home I'll tell you what exactly I do to KINDA get rid of the issue for me.
Your issue is WAY worse than mine though, I only get slight blurring, and I sometimes don't even bother fixing it after resetting it since it is very minor.
MediaMan said First: Do you get this effect in safe mode?
Second: Do you get this effect at the post screen and in BIOS?
If you do then it is most likely the monitor itself that needs to go in for warranty work. The other test would be to try a different video card.
I tend to agree, unless the above suggestions turn up any cure, I think the monitor is unfortunately the cause of the problem, and I imagine the only way if any to fix it is to get it looked at by a pro.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited September 2003
I can't see anything in the bios, and just barely if anything in safe mode. However, I think the reason for this is simply the 640x480 resolution, since it's almost invisible @ 800x600 in windows and gets worse as the resolution is cranked up.
The thing is as little as 1 Amp can kill you (at any voltage). If you had an electronics course, you would know that your skin is a giant resistor/insulator. When electricity is passing through your body, it would take 1 full Amp to be entering your body to stop your heart, this would occur if you are wet or something. And the voltage would have to travel across one arm to the other arm
I have been shocked by 120V electricity several times, and it has not affected me. We all know that they use 15A breakers on light switches (which is what I got shocked by when I was 7), and 20A breakers on plugs (which I have been shocked 2 or 3 times by)
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited September 2003
Well Danball, that would explain a lot *snigger snigger*
J/K... Just so you know, I'm not serious... you just left yourself wide open for that one and I couldn't resist...
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Good luck!
Sounds to me like your electron gun is out of focus. If that's the case, I'm sure that you can resolve this without having to buy another monitor... how long is Sony's warranty? Can you just RMA it?
I guess I'll be the wise ass to point out that the definition of electrocution is death by electricity
I meant shocked (obviously)... once by an EDM, once by an AT psu...
Go into the Monitor Control panel thing and there is a place to kinda fix the issue, I am at school doing HTML atm(ugh), butw hen I get home I'll tell you what exactly I do to KINDA get rid of the issue for me.
Your issue is WAY worse than mine though, I only get slight blurring, and I sometimes don't even bother fixing it after resetting it since it is very minor.
I tend to agree, unless the above suggestions turn up any cure, I think the monitor is unfortunately the cause of the problem, and I imagine the only way if any to fix it is to get it looked at by a pro.
I have been shocked by 120V electricity several times, and it has not affected me. We all know that they use 15A breakers on light switches (which is what I got shocked by when I was 7), and 20A breakers on plugs (which I have been shocked 2 or 3 times by)
J/K... Just so you know, I'm not serious... you just left yourself wide open for that one and I couldn't resist...
Yeah, okay... whatever you say Dan.
I'm glad I didn't mention that I have been hit by 277V twice...
That's no shock to me. (ba dum dum ching!);D