Monitor is tasting the rainbow.

Now by all accounts this seems to be a video card problem. But I've changed my video card/tried another monitor on my pc/tried my monitor on another PC to test this and the problem only appears on mine.

I have a Samsung SyncMaster 215TW 21 inch wide screen LCD Monitor. The problem is about 3 inches down from the top of the screen I have 2 lines running across from one side to the other that look like some rainbowy pixel distortion that doesnt go away no matter what I do.

The reason why I thought it was a video card problem was because I change the resolution the distortion moves around and changes sizes to match the resolution change. Like when I start up windows and its running the bios, the distortion is at the bottom of the screen and its HUGE.
Also when I switch the channels on my monitor from analog(computer channel) to AV(component cable channel) the distortion only shows up in the analog channel. So I have no idea. Maybe is the wires or the connectors?

Any help would be appreciated.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I switched my video card with another and I tried my monitor on another computer that wasnt having any video problems and the distorion remained.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by GRUN-2

If you put your monitor on a different computer with a different video card, does it still have the problem?

If you put a different monitor on your computer with your current video card does it still have the same problem?

Sorry.
1. Yes
2. No

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.