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Decent monitor blurry (streaks across screen) due to cable.

blackbird307

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I found this nice crt monitor. It's native resolution is 1600x1200 @ 85hz which is very good compared to most crts I have ever seen. It's a 21 inch. But the cable never came with it. Right now im using cheap crap vga kvm cables. The problem is that there are streaks that go across the screen from left to right. Sometimes the lines overlap other images on the screen making them blurry. I noticed the image quality varies from each cable. Some other cables I have give fuzzy images or have missing colors or colors that dominate other.

To be honest, I would hate to see this monitor end up as e-waste.:laugh:

Anyways, is there a way to find a better cable? How will I know the vga cable won't be the same?
 
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Sounds like the CRT is on its last legs. Is VGA the only possible connection?
 

blackbird307

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It takes bnc as well. Not sure how to hook bnc up to my computer, never was familiar with it. But the cables are known to have problems with other monitors when using kvm. It's likely the cables aren't noise resistant.
 
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