Why does my monitor have these lines this is my second day with it after picking it up for a cheap price. Yesterday there were no lines like this on the monitor all I did was leave it in sleep mode overnight. (DELL E207WFP)
Why does my monitor have these lines this is my second day with it after picking it up for a cheap price. Yesterday there were no lines like this on the monitor all I did was leave it in sleep mode overnight. (DELL E207WFP)
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> **after picking it up for a cheap price**
who would have thought
Your monitor is drunk
I never knew monitors could have astigmatism.
It’s the cable connection, you are using the blue VGA. Switch to DVI if you can.
It’s a 17 year old monitor.
Even though Dell monitors are usually pretty good quality it’s probably degraded over time. Lots of temperature and humidity fluctuations over the years.
Imagine going to buy a 2006 car for cheap and it not having a single issue.
You have VGA connection or not?
i have a coworker that has the exact same issue. it’s fixed by tightening his vga cable. a few weeks later it’s loose again and the issue appears again. if you use vga too you should switch to another cable
Probably the VGA cable
Tbh.. . You can get a cheap monitor at Walmart for 70$ that you can actually return if this happens. . Why would you waste time/money even goodwill will return for store credit so you could possible exchange it for one that works. Sorry man. That’s dog cement
Are you using a VGA input? They do this kind of thing if the connection is bad, cable is bad, adapter is bad.
Use a digital input like DisplayPort or HDMI.
what cable are you using
I had a similar but 19″ dell monitor that had that exact same design and it developed the same issue which was why I finally got rid of it. It served as my second monitor for quite a few years until I built my new PC and with it came a new monitor.
I don’t think mine was quite this bad but it was still bad. I seem to recall sometimes switching the monitor on/off would improve it ever so slightly? But I might be remembering wrong.
Edit: Seems other people have said you can just change the cable. Now I’m about to dig that little old monitor back out again and set myself up a 3rd monitor.
The monitor is bad. That’s probably why they sold it to you.
Bad VGA cable.
Replace it and it will be fixed.
I’ve had the 17” version of that monitor for several years now. Damaged VGA cable started to cause intermittent flickers recently. Switched to an HDMI to DVI-D cable and all is well. It may be my imagination but I think the color looks better too.
Have you tried blowing on it?
Try hdmi or display port cable
Check cables, try different cables/ports just to rule them out.
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Had this issue with a previous monitor though. It ain’t good news if it’s the same problem. It’s done. It’ll progressively get worse till it’s basically not usable.
Turn off motion blur
Stop giving your cellphone beers, it already sleeps with you.
Unsquint your eyes
Its the cable
Can you focus your camera, it’s hard to see
Can you focus your camera, it’s hard to see
try taking a pic when you monitor isn’t moving super fast?
Did it have a protective plastic film over it when you bought it?
Oh shit, I thought my astigmatism worsened
Had this issue. Get a new vga/dvi cable.
Turn motion blur down!