Alrighty, I bit the bullet and purchased a monitor switcher the other day so I can have my pc and xbox360 hooked to the same monitor so I wouldn't have to keep rummaging under my desk to switch them out.

However, I get horrible ghosting effects now on my PC monitor.

The 360's picture is flawless, a little washed out, but thats just because I really can't change anything on my monitor (still have to mess with brightness and contrast there..).

My questions are...

Is this a cause of the cable (i have 3 of them, two are horrendously ugly, the other not so bad but still noticeable) being 'bad'?

Is this going to happen regardless of what cable I use, meaning will me lengthening the distance between the PC and the monitor cause ghosting effects just because of the added cable distance?

or could it be just because I got a cheap monitor switcher?


If its just a cable issue, what then could I look for in a VGA cable that could alleviate the ghosting problem? All the cables I have are missing 'pins' in them which I always thought was pretty normal sine there wern't any 'places/holes' for the pins. Would a male-to-male VGA/DVI cable work better? (i have a PNY 6800GT with a DVI input slot...)

As always, thanks in advanced everyone!

Anyone have any insight into this 'problem'? Its not a big deal really...one of the cables I have has the least amount of ghosting/doubled image than the other two, and its bareable...its just annoyingly noticeable

Connect the PC directly to the monitor w/ each of the three cables. If you don't get any ghosting w/ all three then it's the switch, if you do it's the cables.

I'm with Big money's idea, but i'm bettin its the cables seein' as you've had no trouble till you hooked up the cables , or did i miss something??

Well, two of the three cables still gave me horrible 'ghosting' like effects. The one I recently bought, didn't 'seem' to be any different.

What I really want to know is, since I've never really paid too much attention to it before.... But on the Male sided parts of a VGA cable, why are some 'pins' missing? Would finding a cable with no 'missing' pins prevent this at all?

I've thought about plopping down some cash on a DVI-VGA cable to see if that would help, but as always, I came here to find out if that would be worth it or not.

Its just annoying, but something I've come to live with. lol. I don't notice it much during gaming, but since I got the 360 I dont' game much on my computer anymore anyways

I think if you open up that 'box & write down all "cabling" actually "in use" will give you the answer
to the question wether or not to buy cables with all pins "enabled"... If there are pins not "connected" in
the "switch box" it would be senseless to buy these cables, imho...

Please correct me if I'm wrong...

TDR

All of the vga cables I have seen have 15 pins. I have never purchased/seen a new cable that did not come w/ all 15 pins. I don't think you should have missing pins. It should go away if you replace the cables. If you can live w/ the ghosting then don't worry about it. I don't see any reason to buy a dvi to vga cable.


Hell, just play the 360 and save your money to buy games for it.

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