DVI - VGA gives a pink hue to my monitor

Jasper Hopkins · Jun 20, 2013

So recently I decided to go for a double monitor set up for my run of the mill PC. The ports I have on the graphics card are VGA and DVI. As I was using the VGA and my second monitor didn't have a DVI port I decided to get a DVI to VGA cable for it. So I plugged in a DVI-VGA cable into my first monitor for a test and it came up with a pink hue which is annoying as hell. So looking for the problem I plugged the cable into my second monitor and it still had the pink hue. So the problem might be with my cable or graphics card. Really annoyed and it would be great if you guys could help me out

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My graphics card is the Nvidia Gefore 9500 GT DDR2

sourodip · Jun 20, 2013

do u think that a gpu like 9500GT DDR2 can run two monitors?what the res. of the monitors?

Jasper Hopkins · Jun 20, 2013

sourodip :

Its not a problem with the graphics card because when I the DVI to VGA with one monitor it still has the pink hue. And the graphics card does support dual monitor. Stumped.

wanderer11 · Jun 20, 2013

Sounds like there is something wrong with the adapter. If my DVI cable is loose my monitor looks red/pink.

Jasper Hopkins · Jun 20, 2013

wanderer11 :

I'll look for a refund and buy another and see if the problem persists, untill then I'm keeping this thread open though

sourodip · Jun 21, 2013

yeah try to change the adapter,by the way a 9500GT is too old a card to handle games at that re. of two monitors

Jasper Hopkins · Jun 21, 2013

sourodip :

I wasn't planning on running games on 2 monitors, I was planning on running the games on one monitor and another window on the other. Thanks for the reply though

therockerkid60 · Jun 21, 2013

You could buy a adapter for one of the slots DVI to VGA or VGA to DVI and see if that would help

sourodip · Jun 22, 2013

yesterday i had a problem on another pc,while browsing the display became pink,i figured out that the vga/dvi cable was was mixed with the wire of the mouse and it solved the problem,are u having this exact problem?

Jasper Hopkins · Jun 23, 2013

sourodip :

No, this cable has never worked, and when I tried to get it to work it was on my desk with everything unplugged :l

sourodip · Jun 23, 2013

do u have one dvi/vga adapter for one of the monitors and hdmi for the other monitor?

Jasper Hopkins · Jun 24, 2013

sourodip :

dvi-hdmi and vga

sourodip · Jun 25, 2013

tried with another gpu or ur iGPU?

Jasper Hopkins · Jun 25, 2013

sourodip :

iGPU?

sourodip · Jun 25, 2013

mobo's integarted graphics.
iGPU=Integrated graphics processing unit

prankstare · Oct 6, 2013

I'm having exactly the same problem, which makes text reading absolutely ridiculous.

Just bought a factory overvolted Nvidia-based graphics card (EVGA GTX650TI Boost) and when I plug the card into my secondary monitor via DVI -> VGA adapter (or pretty much any monitor that doesn't have DVI ports), I notice a weird pinkish-reddish tinge throughout the entire screen causing a lot of eyestrain especially when reading (font-rendering), and there's absolutely nothing I can do to fix this (tried rolling back drivers, custom resolution/refresh rate, two different dvi->vga adapters and nothing). Have also messed around with hue settings and what Nvidia likes to call 'Digital Vibrance' and it kinda helped, tried disabling the latter though as it messes up with color accuracy but there's no way of doing that (they say 50% is neutral but that's not true). Funny thing is that this monitor has always worked great with ATI/AMD graphics cards so I figured this is probably a Nvidia driver problem as the company deliberately refuses to release some simple fix that would come in handy (e.g., monitor reporting incorrect EDID values, full-RGB range HDMI, etc etc) or it could be an issue affecting factory overvolted cards like the EVGA SC and MSI Lightning cards. I'd also like to stress the fact that when in Linux and without installing any Nvidia drivers of course image quality looks apparently normal and great (not as good as a ATI-AMD graphics card but acceptable).

So as a result I figured out a simple and fast solution which is never buy Nvidia cards ever again - has caused me way too much trouble already.

manofchalk · Oct 7, 2013

The simple answer is that your using VGA.
VGA is an analogue signal and is subject to degradation unlike the digital signal DVI/HDMI/Displayport uses. If you have a low quality VGA cable it can affect your image quality, with DVI/HDMI you can get the cheapest cable you can find and it will work 100% or not at all.

sourodip · Nov 30, 2013

Try changing the cable and also isolate the cable from other wires.
If possible check with another monitor's power cable.

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