Hi there, Just bought a new 24" monitor and have three questions regarding it, which I was hoping you could help with: 1. The monitor has both a VGA port and a DVI port. I am using the VGA port and the screen is excellent. Is there any reason why I should use the DVI port instead and is it better? 2. If I *do* decide to use the DVI port, it would be a lot simpler for me to use a VGA-to-DVI converter on the end of my current cable, as opposed to installing an actual DVI cable. Will this make any difference? 3. Finally, one of the pixels on the screen is completely white and is annoying me. Is this a fault with the monitor, i.e. a "dead" pixel, and is there any way of fixing it? Thanks for any help you can provide! All the best, Marko

DVI is theoretically better as it eliminates the conversion from digital to analogue and back to digital again. With DVI it is digital all the way. To get the full benefit of DVI you need a graphics card with a DVI output which is digital. A VGA output is analogue. A VGA-DVI converter won't achieve anything as it is only doing the same conversion that takes place in the monitor when using the VGA input. A VGA-DVI converter is only of any use with a monitor that doesn't have a VGA input. Having said that, unless you are doing hi-res graphics work you probably wont be able to tell the difference. Stuart

Stuart, Thank you so much for an in-depth reply! You really cleared it up for me. Like you say, unless I'm doing advanced CGI for the next Hollywood blockbuster, I may as well stick with what I've got. Do you have any idea about that one mysterious white dot on my screen that won't go away? You seem to know plenty about everything else! Marko

Are you running the native resolution for the display? Usually dead pixels will be dark. If you haven't identified the monitor in the advanced display settings, or better yet, installed any drivers for the monitor, then you need to do that before the higher resolutions and the wide screen resolutions are available. Post the model of the monitor and the graphics card too, if you kwon it.

The above responses have pretty much covered it, but if you do indeed have one dead pixel, you *may* be able to revive it. http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/... You didn't list the make/model but according to Dell, "A display with 1 to 5 bright or dark dots is considered normal and within industry standards." http://support.dell.com/support/top... "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction

Hi there OtheHill, The monitor is a: BLACK 24" WIDESCREEN TFT MONITOR EDGE10 W243H WITH DVI I'm connected via the VGA cable. To be honest I set it to run at the highest possible resoultion (and 32-bit) and it did so perfectly, so I saw no need for drivers. This pixel is strange. When it's a black screen, it'll be white and then fade slightly, but if I were to then go to a white screen, it would show up as slightly black and then fade into white. I'm really confused at what is wrong with it! I don't think drivers would help because the rest of the screen is perfect, save that one dot. Marko

Yeah, dead pixels are pretty typical of LCD monitors. Not much you can do about it, unless you fell like buying CRTs (if you even can).