Bad DVI Cable?

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Having problems with my Benq 24" monitor model GL2450HM.

The problem is that I've got some micro-tearing so to speak on-screen, and text is somewhat scewed making some documents a pain to read. I can also take the snipping tool and capture it in windows.

Meaning that it's not a problem with the physical monitor screen.

 

What are some things I could try to diagnose this issue?

 

So far, I've tried

- checking my resolution to make sure it's 1920x1080

- changing the cable to a VGA cable w/ a digital adapter included with my graphics card (surprised i'd actually use it)

- also checking to make sure my amd catalyst software isn't forcing any kind of filters on applications

- even changing motherboards, ram, cpu, fresh install of windows, fresh drivers (but the same version). did not resolve the issue.

 

What appears to be working so far is my vga cable that came with the monitor and an adapter. (I don't like using this cable...) <_<

 

Is it possible that I have a bad DVI cable?

 

My setup is:

GPU: sapphire 7850 OC 1gb edition

Monitor: Benq model #GL2450HM

 

Thanks, LTT forum if you could help

An HDMI cable is on it's way from newegg.com :lol:

 

 

[Matsy]

Did you run clear type text?

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It's alot more scewed than that, but thanks i forgot to set that up lol.

 

The problems have not propped up since i switched cables last night, but havn't had enough time to test it.

Seems to be a random occurance either when i've snapped two windows on my screen, or the monitor has awakened from sleep.