**Monitor HUAG but with grainy colors!**

Machismo

So I got this monitor in the IT department's giveaway. It is a MASSIVE 24 inch CRT monitor. I love it! Unfortunately, the colors are grainy.
I set the monitors brightness to max and even used nvidias color calibration wizard, but it still looks bad. All the colors look grainy. As if the brightness was still too low or I was looking through a nasty film of dirt on the screen.

I was wondering if there is a way to set the voltage thresholds on the VGA cable a bit lower, but I have no idea how. I ask this because the monitor has an option to switch between .7 and 1.0 volts. When I set it to 1.0, things got worse, but worse in the same way.

A couple of suspects. I have two CRTs. One, my secondary is on the VGA connection on my nVidia card. The fatty monitor is on the DVI connector, but through a DVI to VGA adapter.

Are there any tools, compatible with nVidia that can be used to help this situation? Boost the signal from the card or anything!

Machismo

I could definitely still use some help. Please?

blincoln

I would be surprised if anyone here knew enough about monitors to give you an authoritative answer. You'd probably be better off asking some place related to very DIY electronics, like the guys who rig up converter hardware to run MAME on a real arcade vector display from the 80s, or just recondition arcade hardware in general.

My knee-jerk response is "the reason you got it for free is that it's an older monitor that's grainy" - partly because I've gotten a number of them the same way for the same reason - but I can't say for sure if there's something you can do to fix it or not, and if it is possible how expensive it would be in terms of time and money.