Hi Diane,
Unfortunately 1280 x 1024 is native for your LCD. Running it at 1024 x 768
is why it looks bad. The pixels don't line up properly.
Most 17" panels run 1280 x 1024 also, so it will be even smaller because the
screen is smaller.
If everything on the screen is so small, then you might look into setting
some of Windows accessibility options. You can increase the standard font
size of most of the text, increase the size of menus and toolbars, and
increase the size of the desktop icons.
Go to "Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Accessibility ->
Accessibility Wizard" and step through the settings in the wizard.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Diane Kroeckel
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 6:05 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Monitor
I'm using a Samsung 914v. I loaded it's Magic Tune program that makes
things easier to set. Under Resolution there is a Preferred setting. When I
chose that, it changed my resolution from 1024 x 768 to 1280 x 1024. The
other setting is at 60 kHz and 60Hz PP. Everything is so tiny now. I liked
the way everything looked better at the other resolution.
Would things be better with a 17" LCD monitor?
Diane Kroeckel
Wheeling, IL
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 07:03:24 -0800
From: Russ Poffenberger <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Monitor
Hi Diane,
Sometimes LCD panels take a little getting used to. You say it is too
bright, did you turn the brightness all the way down? Note that it will dim
slightly over the next couple months, but only a little.
As to the text, it is important that you run an LCD at its native
resolution. Unlike a CRT which is more of an analog type device, and can
blend pixels among the phosphor on the screen as the electron beams scans
across, an LCD is a static pixel display, and each pixel is driven exactly
from the video image.
Having said that, most 19" LCD's have a native resolution of 1280 X 1024 @
60Hz (although the refresh isn't important other than to not exceed what the
monitor is capable of, since LCD's don't flicker like CRT's do at slow
refresh rates. Set your video card to that and see how it looks.
Another thing to try (if you can) is going with a DVI connection. It makes
little sense to take a digital image (stored in the video card memory)
convert it to analog, (for the VGA cable), then back to digital (inside the
LCD to present to the LCD pixels). Using a DVI connection (if your video
card and LCD support it) eliminates the distortion that can occur between
D/A and A/D conversions. If this is not possible, then your video card may
have poor VGA output signals, the LCD has to take the analog signal and pick
the digital pixels out of it, a poor quality signal makes it harder for the
LCD to do this cleanly, hence the suggestion to go DVI. I have seen two
different systems using the same LCD monitor, one looks better than the
other (the poorer one had a cheap onboard video adapter).
Russ Poffenberger
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At 08:21 PM 11/30/2005, you wrote:
>I just switched from a 15" CRT to a 19" LCD monitor. I've tried two, a
>KDS and a Samsung. Neither one looks as nice as the CRT. They are
>both too bright. And the text doesn't look crisp enough. I've used
>Clear Type, but it hasn't helped.
>
>I'm using a year old HP computer running WinXP2.
>
>Should I spend more money. Are there minimum settings I should be
>looking for? Any ideas?
>
>Diane Kroeckel
>Wheeling, IL
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