Distorted Image

I bought a Hanns G monitor on newegg about a month ago and I love it. There was, however, an weird glitch that would occur whenever there was a mostly gray image on the screen. If I were looking at a website or even a movie that had a significant amount gray in it, weird lines would appear on my screen. It were as if the monitor was becoming out of sync with my computer. After finding nothing on Google I decided to play around with fixing it more. It turns out that the solution was actually very simple:

Lower the contrast on my video card (not on the LCD itself) to 95% (or slightly lower than normal). This got rid of the lines instantly and changed the look of the image on the screen only very slightly.

Image After Lowing Contrast

My friend’s LCD monitor stopped working a few weeks ago. It would come on for a few seconds and then just go blank. I decided to shine my flashlight at it at a sharp angle to see if it was completely broken or if the back light wasn’t working. As I suspected the back light was burned out, but other wise it was fine. Then we got creative. Why throw out a monitor simply because a light stopped working? Soon, we created the contraption that you see above. We took out all of the internal parts and put them into a milk crate. We found a desk lamp to use as a back light. Although this won’t really work as a desktop monitor it might very well find a home in my currently monitor-less sever closet. Without the back lights the monitor only draws 7 watts per hour.