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Dual Output Video and Monitor Question

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SirMike1983

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I have a GeForce video card that I got a couple of years ago. It's one of those dual output things-- has the regular monitor plug on it and also a weird one that I think is some kind of "digital" output. The weird one used an adaptor that converted a fat plug into a regular skinny monitor plug. I believe it's called DVI.

Everything had been okay until about a week and a half ago when I was suddenly starting to get weird phantom images on my monitor. They were like reverse shadows where everything very light was fuzzy, almost like "double vision". I thought my monito was going bad, but I figured I'd try the regular monitor output. When I swapped it tonight suddenly everything became clear again-- apparently the digital weird output had gone funny.

Does anyone know what that would be?

Monitor is a basic NEC Multisync LCD 1530v. Monitor is about 7 years old.
 
Yep, the newer style bigger plug is a DVI and the older smaller one is a VGA common in the past.

Normally you just use whichever plug matches the chord from your monitor, but as you said, there are adaptors to mix and match.

Maybe the contact between the plug and output socket were getting tarnished or something and making a poor contact, giving you the ghosting images (wild guess).

If switching outputs fixed the problem then no worries.
 
Hey, Seven years+ out of a monitor. You're doing good my man, my Dell 20" LCD bit the dust at over Five.

I'll give you a strange-one. My 22" Samsung won't auto adjust except on anolog connection. Yet my video card features a Dual DVI output.

Thank God for adapters :d
 
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