External monitor working through dvi but poorly

i just tried to conect my pb 12 inch to an external monitor, using the mini dvi to dvi, strait to dvi on the monitor. There is a conection but it is a horible picture. There are all sorts of broken green horizontal lines, with a hole lot up and down the right side. Also the pb monitor goes in and out, as if the screen were going asleep. I tried restarting with everything plugged in, no help.
it is a 32 inch widescreen ilo lcd monitor.
any help?

Go into system preferneces and change the screen resolution and refresh rate for the external moniter.
I hope this helps.

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