help diagnose a dvi problem

Yoyodyne wrote on 11/23/2005, 6:05 PM

Picked up three dvi cables at Fry's - my problem is I'm getting a shimmery/flickery pixel thing going on. Usually in areas of color gradiation on my monitors, the higher the res,the worse the problem. it does get better or worse when I swap out the cables but it also seems to be somewhat related to the monitor and the dvi plug on the video card. Does this infact sound like a DVI cable problem?

Any DVI cables one would recomend?

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fldave wrote on 11/23/2005, 8:36 PM

Check the requirements on the DVI connections you have. I'm going from memory here, but there is DVI analog, DVI digital, and DVI digital/analog.
Make sure you have the right cable for your output to input connectors.

Yoyodyne wrote on 11/25/2005, 1:18 PM

Problem solved! It was bad cables, I started with PTC DVI-D cables from Frys, they were $39.99 each - by far the worst money I have ever spent! They were the only ones they had so had no choice, they said they were complient up to 2048 by 1536 resolution. They are not, in fact they can't seem to pass anything higher than 1024 by 768 without major sparklies.

Swapped em' out with Audioquest Cinemaquest cables - everything looks incredible!!

These PTC cables gave me hours of troubleshooting headaches! Stay away!