HDTV for Monitor

[maxximilian]

The TV told me I should go with 1360x768....

Since that was not available on the PC display list, I went with 1280x768. Other than those faint lines....everything looks good at that setting and circles don't turn into ovals because of stretching....least not that you would notice. Initially, the setting was 1024x768...and I got the reccomendation from the TV when I tried to change to 1600x900, which is where I am on the widescreen monitor that came with it. I figured it would choke on the 1600....but wanted to see what would happen. It was then when it made it's own reccomendation.

[SuperSparks]

What graphics card are you using? I have to say that I'm surprised that any recent hardware won't allow 1360x768 as it is such a common resolution nowadays

[maxximilian]

Unfortunately....I don't have a real card....I have an integrated pretend card, though. It's Intel G33/G31 Express Chipset...

I Googled and found a few people who also ran into this. Like this guy at Intel:

http://communities.intel.com/thread/...22C07.node6COM

I should note that while I was trying all the different resolutions, the horizontal lines appeared in all of them. So whatever is causing that, res selection doesn't seem to matter.

[jdc2000]

If you have a free slot in the computer, You could always get an inexpensive graphics card that has the resolution you need. I'd try the short cable forst though to see if the lines go away.

[Robert M]

You said initially it was 1024 by 768?
Can you select that setting again?
What is the result if you can?

[SpywareDr]

FWIW ... A couple of days ago a coworker called me from home with a similar 'faint moving horizontal lines' problem on a new 23-24" LG monitor connected via VGA to an aging HP laptop. I told him to bring it in to the office and I'd take a look. Tried different resolutions, (factory default is 1920x1080), brightness, contrast, sharpness, Hz, etc., most everything in the OSD menu. Even tried a different circuit (power source), moving it further from the laptop, the other side of the laptop, powering down other close by office equipment, a clamp-on ferrite core, you name it. He was ready to give up and take it back to CompUSA when I said hang on a sec., let's try it on another computer. Connected it to an old HP desktop and Bingo, the 'faint moving horizontal lines' were gone.

IOW, the problem is NOT the new monitor, it's being broadcast through the laptop's VGA port out onto the new monitor.

[SuperSparks]

It might be worth running the computer in safe mode, which will only give VGA graphics. If the lines are gone in safe mode, then it can't be the monitor.