Is my monitor busted or not?

Originally Posted by handyman

The text is still blurry despite playing about with the resolutions. When I set the monitor to 'native' mode or fill with aspect it cuts off a inch and a bit off each side yet I cannot change the resolution to fill this bit at all. If I select Full screen it fills but the text is very dodgy. Going back to the shop at this rate...

screen dump now attached.

its analogue as well.

yeah mine runs on analogue, as well, I didn't realise a DVI cable wasn't included - when I saw the price of them, I realised why

- anyway it is still sharp as a pin on analogue, so I ain't too fussed.

Strange thing, hm, that screendump looked fine to me

[swoop101]

Originally Posted by handyman

I dont have that resolution??

I haver a ati graphics card and the monitor is a phillips 170w.

1280/768 is the native for that unit

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by homealone

yeah mine runs on analogue, as well, I didn't realise a DVI cable wasn't included - when I saw the price of them, I realised why

- anyway it is still sharp as a pin on analogue, so I ain't too fussed.

Strange thing, hm, that screendump looked fine to me

The screen shot looks ok to me as well

Which suggests to me that the monitor itself isn't set up correctly - I can't seem to find the manual.

As I've said - on my monitor as soon as i loose bits of the side etc I use the 'auto adjust' option from the monitors menu system the monitor then sorts itself out. I'm assuming that the philips one has the same kind of thing - maybe that could be tried Because I'm running out of suggestions now.

[paulyoung666]

dump looks fine to me as well

[Indians]

There is also a Registry setting, something like 'Use HR' that can be adjusted for high res monitors, I'll see if I can find the correct key, I know it makes a difference with some monitors, exactly same symptoms as you say, fuzzy / blurry fonts etc.

Edit - see this MS article...http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ew/highdpi.asp

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

dump looks fine to me as well

Half a mo.... isn't that screenshot 1280x1024 and NOT 1280x768??? or is it just me?

edit - i WILL get the 2nd half of that res right

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

That must definately be a subjective thing - if I'm working on a system with cleartype on it's tft - the first thing I do is make sure it's disabled.

You aren't wrong....I've just enabled it and it's doing my eyes in

[Alanmelon]

Half a mo.... isn't that screenshot 1280x1024 and NOT 1280x800??? or is it just me?

Originally Posted by Alanmelon

That screen capture is not in a widescreen resolution.

Nope it's not just you

Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

The screen shot looks ok to me as well

Which suggests to me that the monitor itself isn't set up correctly - I can't seem to find the manual.

As I've said - on my monitor as soon as i loose bits of the side etc I use the 'auto adjust' option from the monitors menu system the monitor then sorts itself out. I'm assuming that the philips one has the same kind of thing - maybe that could be tried Because I'm running out of suggestions now.

thanks dilligaf1701, you confirmed what I was thinking, if the screendump is ok then the output from the graphics card must be ok & the problem is with the monitor setup.

- to pick up the earlier point about 'plug & pray' - have you tried deleting the monitor from device manager & re-booting to get it detected again, hm?

- then, like dilligaf', says, try the 'auto adjust'?

<edit> blimey 3 million people posted while I was typing that

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by handyman

screen dump now attached.

Looks fine to me (tft....non widescreen)

[handyman]

yes it is, its as reccomended for the wide screen model. looks mush worse in 1280*738

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by Alanmelon

Nope it's not just you

Sorry - getting tired

[dilli-theclaw]

Originally Posted by handyman

yes it is, its as reccomended for the wide screen model. looks mush worse in 1280*738

Due to the way tft screens work - the ONLY way you are going to make it look ok is in the native resolution for that monitor which is 1280x768 according to the tech specs for a philips 170w

Can you put it in 1280x768 - THEN do a screen dump for us...

I don't suppose you have a digital camera or something so you can take a picture of the screen to show us what's wrong?

p.s. have you tried that auto adjust thing yet

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

You aren't wrong....I've just enabled it and it's doing my eyes in

cleartype , its enough to make you and then be and then have a , sorry , i just love the smileys , especially the one

[dilli-theclaw]

Here's one more thing for your list to try

In my drivers here on my laptop - under advanced>displays>panel - there's an option to scale the image to fit the display.

I don't know if you have that in your drivers - but it's something else to check.