Odd monitor issue

[captain_obvious]

This is very very strange.
I was browsing t'interweb whilst simultaneously updating windows when my monitor's image quality suddenly takes a nosedive.  It's like a strange haziness similar to running a non native resolution but I've ruled that out having checked and double checked the res. Some icons also seem to have colour alignment/display problems.

Is my monitor dying? I've only had it for 3 months ffs!

It's a benq E2220HD. I'm running win 7.

[Nebula]

did you check all the monitor options from your gfx card AND Windows 7?

Windows 7 has a number of monitor calibration programs/settings.

[captain_obvious]

did you check all the monitor options from your gfx card AND Windows 7?

Windows 7 has a number of monitor calibration programs/settings.

Already tried those. No effect.
I have changed from the DVI cable to a HDMI cable. But it's been running for a month with no issues up until now.
It's a proper HDMI cable running from the HDMI port on my gfx card to the HDMI port on my monitor so no there are no cheapy crappy conversion boxes or anything ;)

I'm still stumped by this. I've never heard of anything like this before* on a monitor like this. Maybe somewhere there's a problem with the HDMI?  I shall have to dig out the DVI!

*Something along those lines happened on our old CRT TV set a few years back. I managed to convince/*beatdadintosubmission* to get a nice new HD tv instead of just getting the old one fixed!

[King Class Scout]

percussive maintenence, eh?  or should that be Onslow maintenence?

i have heard of this thing with CRT TV's, but with a monitor is a first.

[captain_obvious]

percussive maintenence, eh?  or should that be Onslow maintenence?

i have heard of this thing with CRT TV's, but with a monitor is a first.

Just tried it. No effect other than putting a small crack in the chassis :/

EDIT
Problem solved. Bad cable or bad port on gfx card.
I just reverted to the DVI cable and all is well.
Meh.

[flarespire]

during that process did you power off the pc you were using?, windows updates include some driver updates for graphics cards and other hardware, when i update this lenovo of mine it installed an update for my drivers and i got the same thing, i restarted it then the display was back to its old self, i dont know if reconnectiong the monitor fixes it aswell but, hey ya never know.

[captain_obvious]

during that process did you power off the pc you were using?, windows updates include some driver updates for graphics cards and other hardware, when i update this lenovo of mine it installed an update for my drivers and i got the same thing, i restarted it then the display was back to its old self, i dont know if reconnectiong the monitor fixes it aswell but, hey ya never know.

I switch the pc off whenever I leave it unless there's a background task I need to leave it running for IE defrag, big download etc.
So yes I did.
I noticed it before windows had downloaded all of the last round of updates and so that rules that out.

Anyone else had similar problems at some point?

[flarespire]

then it may have been a driver it had already downloaded before the updates were completed. thats the most likely answer, but once the updates are configured the "foggy" screen error goes away. Heck my Lenovo G550 laptop just did the same thing this morning, i made it restart and it fixed.

jimmy i think you should sticky this thread incase anyone else gets this problem and by chance has a poke around the forums for a solution.

[captain_obvious]

then it may have been a driver it had already downloaded before the updates were completed. thats the most likely answer, but once the updates are configured the "foggy" screen error goes away. Heck my Lenovo G550 laptop just did the same thing this morning, i made it restart and it fixed.

jimmy i think you should sticky this thread incase anyone else gets this problem and by chance has a poke around the forums for a solution.

Doubtful. The issue remained after a shut down and reboot. It only went after I changed the cables around.
It may be a dodgy driver but it had worked flawlessly for a few weeks.
I think it was just a bad cable or something.

[JimmyB76]

jimmy i think you should sticky this thread incase anyone else gets this problem and by chance has a poke around the forums for a solution.

thats why there is a search function, patience, and the rest of us to remember about this thread lol

[King Class Scout]

funny, I've never had windows updated download any drivers at all.  it's all barrier ware and band-aids on my end.  i had to get a special program for drivers, and I sure can't tell whether or not they're working when replaced.  course, there isn't a special custom piece anywhere on the computers in THIS house...it's all plug and play.

[flarespire]

well i did some research and it turns out when driver updates(sent by microsoft) are installed, the cable may not be able to read the new driver properly so switching cables is a fix for that, its really weird just why the foggy effect really happens though....

[captain_obvious]

well i did some research and it turns out when driver updates(sent by microsoft) are installed, the cable may not be able to read the new driver properly so switching cables is a fix for that, its really weird just why the foggy effect really happens though....

Any chance of a link to that dude? sounds interesting!

[flarespire]

i googled it, i cant give ypou a direct link, just google the issue and youll find it.

[captain_obvious]

I did and found nothing of use. And as I said I went back to DVI ;)

[flarespire]

im guessing it was that the drivers were not able to use the HDMI cable, a likely fix for this is to update the gfx cards drivers to compensate, then switch bact to your HDMI cable.

[captain_obvious]

It doesn't even matter now. DVI does the job fine
But thanks regardless.