laptop lcd monitor hell

chasnoff · 09-30-2006, 04:22 PM

Hi,

I just bough a new 19" Acer widescreen monitor for my laptop and when I watch movies from dvd, I get terrible image lag and distortion. Is there anything I can do to fix this?? I use the dvd software bundled with my laptop from hp to watch my dvds and im running win xp home,

Thanks

Monitor:
Screen size 19"
Maximum resolution 1440 x 900
Brightness 300cd/m2
Contrast ratio 700:1
Response time 5-millisecond
Viewing angle width (degrees) 150 horizontal/135 vertical
Dot pitch (mm) .284
Type of input 15-pin D-sub (analog), DVI-D (digital)

Laptop:
hp dv5000
2.2g cpu
2 gigs ram
radeon ati xpress 200m graphics card w no dvi output

~~OMGmissinglink~~ · 09-30-2006, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chasnoff

Hi,

I just bough a new 19" Acer widescreen monitor for my laptop and when I watch movies from dvd, I get terrible image lag and distortion. Is there anything I can do to fix this?? I use the dvd software bundled with my laptop from hp to watch my dvds and im running win xp home,

Thanks

Monitor:
Screen size 19"
Maximum resolution 1440 x 900
Brightness 300cd/m2
Contrast ratio 700:1
Response time 5-millisecond
Viewing angle width (degrees) 150 horizontal/135 vertical
Dot pitch (mm) .284
Type of input 15-pin D-sub (analog), DVI-D (digital)

Laptop:
hp dv5000
2.2g cpu
2 gigs ram
radeon ati xpress 200m graphics card w no dvi output

Suggesting check HP's www site for udpdates / patches / or work arounds aka your dvd drive or issues with your model.

chasnoff · 09-30-2006, 05:37 PM

no updates or patches available for my laptop everything is up to date.. any other suggestions?

~~OMGmissinglink~~ · 09-30-2006, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chasnoff

no updates or patches available for my laptop everything is up to date.. any other suggestions?

Possible DVD scraches, lower output resolution, DVD drive cleaning.

chasnoff · 10-01-2006, 03:51 PM

ive noticed that its much worse in full screen and gets better the smaller the window i use to watch the dvd

~~OMGmissinglink~~ · 10-01-2006, 05:16 PM

Your laptop shared memeory 32MB? / take it your laptop display is not working is why your using an exterior monitor.

chasnoff · 10-01-2006, 09:14 PM

nope i wanted to have a larger monitor for when i watch movies at home. the laptop display is fine. I havent had any problems until i started using the external monitor. I'm thinking maybe its the vga imput. maybe dvi would work better? or maybe the extra monitor is messing with my system resources. i changed my bios to 256mb of system memory for the graphics card but it didn't help the dvd performance.

~~OMGmissinglink~~ · 10-02-2006, 01:49 PM

Shared memory laptop nope dvi you will probably run into same problem, the monitor does not use your system resources other that the shared ram output. lowering the resolution is most your going to get IMHO.

09-30-2006, 04:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
chasnoff Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7 OS: win xp home	laptop lcd monitor hell Hi, I just bough a new 19" Acer widescreen monitor for my laptop and when I watch movies from dvd, I get terrible image lag and distortion. Is there anything I can do to fix this?? I use the dvd software bundled with my laptop from hp to watch my dvds and im running win xp home, Thanks Monitor: Screen size 19" Maximum resolution 1440 x 900 Brightness 300cd/m2 Contrast ratio 700:1 Response time 5-millisecond Viewing angle width (degrees) 150 horizontal/135 vertical Dot pitch (mm) .284 Type of input 15-pin D-sub (analog), DVI-D (digital) Laptop: hp dv5000 2.2g cpu 2 gigs ram radeon ati xpress 200m graphics card w no dvi output

09-30-2006, 05:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
chasnoff Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7 OS: win xp home	nope no updates or patches available for my laptop everything is up to date.. any other suggestions?

10-01-2006, 03:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
chasnoff Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7 OS: win xp home	ive noticed that its much worse in full screen and gets better the smaller the window i use to watch the dvd

10-01-2006, 05:16 PM	#6 (permalink)
~~OMGmissinglink~~ Troubled Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,535 OS: XP Pro sp2 My System	Your laptop shared memeory 32MB? / take it your laptop display is not working is why your using an exterior monitor.

10-01-2006, 09:14 PM	#7 (permalink)
chasnoff Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7 OS: win xp home	nope i wanted to have a larger monitor for when i watch movies at home. the laptop display is fine. I havent had any problems until i started using the external monitor. I'm thinking maybe its the vga imput. maybe dvi would work better? or maybe the extra monitor is messing with my system resources. i changed my bios to 256mb of system memory for the graphics card but it didn't help the dvd performance.

10-02-2006, 01:49 PM	#8 (permalink)
~~OMGmissinglink~~ Troubled Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,535 OS: XP Pro sp2 My System	Shared memory laptop nope dvi you will probably run into same problem, the monitor does not use your system resources other that the shared ram output. lowering the resolution is most your going to get IMHO.