fonts and images on screen fuzzy.

[rovingcowboy]

on my dell monitor all the fonts and images on the screen are fuzzy.

anything that causes this?

i have done reseting of the monitor and adusted the v mori and h mori in

the monitors settings to zeron.

i have turned on clear type fonts. and i have run maintance on the computer.

which means i cleaned out all the junk files and such. i ran the last

autopatcher i could get before they were shut down by M$.

i have all updates i can get from ms web site.

i've moved small personel cooling 3 inch desktop fan away from the back of the

monitor and turned it off.

nothing seems to work everything looks good on first reboot but goes sour as its up

time gets longer.

gforce 4 mmx 420 vid card.

unknown manufacture of monitor it just say's dell.

thanks

[thebigbluecan]

Is it CRT? How old is it? It might be time to replace it if it is old. I had a CRT monitor do that and its like the pixles were blurry and it hurt my eyes a little bit. If you lower the resolution of the monitor does that help? If so you probably need a new monitor.

[nitroshift]

Did you try a degauss?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Vid cards awefully old to might be that can you lug the monitor over to a friends and try it on thier pc?

[rovingcowboy]

Is it CRT? How old is it? It might be time to replace it if it is old. I had a CRT monitor do that and its like the pixles were blurry and it hurt my eyes a little bit. If you lower the resolution of the monitor does that help? If so you probably need a new monitor.

yep its a crt sorry i forgot to say that.

yep it is the pixels that seem to be fuzzy on every pixel its the whole screen looks kind of like looking through a slight mist or fog.

i have it at 800 x 600 wont go anylower.

i was thinking its a new monitor but did not want to buy one yet.

[rovingcowboy]

Did you try a degauss?

yes i did that sorry i had thought i said that here also?

[rovingcowboy]

Vid cards awefully old to might be that can you lug the monitor over to a friends and try it on thier pc?

no but i did switch cables from this tower to the other towers flat screen and it seemed

to show good on it, not sure though if the flatscreen was doing the correcting or not?

i'll have to try and get enough cord to connect this montior to the other tower and see if it is better on that tower. but i don't think it will be. could be wrong and maybe this monitor only needs a shot from the nvidia 7900 card in that other tower? maybe that will fix it?

[rovingcowboy]

fixed this fuzzy font trouble.

got new monitor.

don't know what went wrong with that dell monitor but something did.

it was making me think i needed new eye glasses. and it was getting worse every day.

but the new monitor did not go to the size of screen res.. i wanted so i switched it out

with the old one from the win98. which goes to one size smaller then the other one and to the same size on the large scale as the other one then i put the other replacement on the win98

but all are good working ones now.

thought i would come back and post this as fixed.

Edited October 4, 2007 by rovingcowboy

[j7n]

i have turned on clear type fonts.

That does not make sense on a CRT monitor.

Maybe color convergence is off on that display. This would make text extremely difficult to read. DELLs should have controls for aligning the colors.

If you previously have reset all settings on the monitor, most likely also convergence correction values were dropped.