Blew a DVI Cable... how?

[Fr3@k3r]

well today i blew my gold plated monster of a dual link dvi cable.. this thing was gigantic.. anyways i turned on my pc and i got some weird frizzy stuff on my screen, so i swapped out the dual link for the stock, tested both dvi ports on the video card and it was the cable..

any ideas how this happened?

[twoeyes]

wow thats pretty crazy, IMO sounds like feedback from the monitor because I think that kind of electricity going through a video card would mess it up some how.

[motherboard1]

didnt you also blow 2 or 3 dvi ports on 3 monitors? (known problem with those gateways anyway I know )

Id say you got bad luck with anything DVI

[Fr3@k3r]

didnt you also blow 2 or 3 dvi ports on 3 monitors? (known problem with those gateways anyway I know )

Id say you got bad luck with anything DVI

yeah looks like i only blew the cable this time :shrug: as far as i can tell

[threeme2189]

thats weird...

[ajrettke]

well buying special cables is kinda silly for DVI...it's either gonna work or it's not...it's like audiophiles who claim to be able to tell a difference between different types of coax cable...lol some guy did a measurement using pretty advanced software and showed the top of the line coax and a close hanger....with all the ECC and even without they both perform flawlessly with no errors on the binary level after 2 or 3 hours.

As for your DVI ports blowing...seems like the monitor ate your cable instead of itself

[Ad Rock]

well buying special cables is kinda silly for DVI...it's either gonna work or it's not...

Yep buying big fancy expensive DVI cables is pretty pointless. Maybe over a long lenght of cable you might want to have a higher quality unit, but for the standard lenght of 6ft any DVI cable will perform at the same level.

[xbiker321]

Doesnt Monster have a lifetime warrenty or something, you should be able to get it replaced.