If the learned members could help me with a computer problem, I'd be mighty appreciative.
Today I swapped out my video card in favor of a newer card. Now, my display is kinda blurry (like as written by a felt tip pen, not a ball point). It's kinda like when I switched from CRT to LCD and didn't know to use the native resolution of the lcd monitor at first, its blurry, kinda, but not at all unusable.
The particulars, I have an older dell dimension 8250 with P4/2.4ghz using intel 850 mobo chipset running XP Pro, Samsung 171v 17" lcd monitor. Thew whole setup is from like december 2002. I had an nVidia ge 4mx card with 64 on board ram in an agp slot. I dunno if my mobo supports 2x, 4x or 8x agp, So I bought a 4x/8x compatible Norwood ATI 9250 AGP card with 256 ram ( I know nto a great card, but cheap and should be better than the older 4mx card). Yes, I did remvoe the nVidia driver before installing (but note below). I swapped the cards, installed the ATI software, and it works, but as mentioend above its a littler blurrry, or more precisely, it looks like the fonts "bleed" into the pixels next to them, eveything looks "heavier".
I've gone into the control panel and here is something a bit odd. Despite removing the nvidia software thru add/remove programs, the nvidia control panels still show. One is nVidia control panel and the other is nVidia destop manager. However, they appear to be broken links since if I select or try to double click either, nothing happens. Now in reverse, there is no ATI control panel. However, when I go into the display control panel and select advanced, all the ATI tabs are there for various settings. I've tried several different settings, etc. Dunno if this means anythign, but thought I'd add it in.
Here's another oddity. I used to run at 1064x768 resolution and it was sharp, not like a top of the line thing, but sharp all the same. Here, I kept the original 1064x768 and the bleeding or heaviness was pretty significant. So, to make things better, I;m now running 1280x1024. It helps, although still a bit heavy. I thought the resoltion was native to the lcd panel, not the video card, thus why would it be better at higher res?
Well anyway, if anyone can help me sort through this I'd appreciate it. Like I said, the thing is workable and does seem faster, but the fonts (in particlar) seem rendered heavier or with a bleeding edge. I got the card since notice some slow video perofrmance and also newer games won't play on the 4mx card (not that I'm much of a game player, but....) , so I'd hate to give up a sharp card just to get a working, blurry card.
Did I do something wrong, or its it just a old system matched with a crappy card? (and then do you recommend velocty micro, falcon, alienware, or dell xps systems
)
Thanks,
curt j.
Today I swapped out my video card in favor of a newer card. Now, my display is kinda blurry (like as written by a felt tip pen, not a ball point). It's kinda like when I switched from CRT to LCD and didn't know to use the native resolution of the lcd monitor at first, its blurry, kinda, but not at all unusable.
The particulars, I have an older dell dimension 8250 with P4/2.4ghz using intel 850 mobo chipset running XP Pro, Samsung 171v 17" lcd monitor. Thew whole setup is from like december 2002. I had an nVidia ge 4mx card with 64 on board ram in an agp slot. I dunno if my mobo supports 2x, 4x or 8x agp, So I bought a 4x/8x compatible Norwood ATI 9250 AGP card with 256 ram ( I know nto a great card, but cheap and should be better than the older 4mx card). Yes, I did remvoe the nVidia driver before installing (but note below). I swapped the cards, installed the ATI software, and it works, but as mentioend above its a littler blurrry, or more precisely, it looks like the fonts "bleed" into the pixels next to them, eveything looks "heavier".
I've gone into the control panel and here is something a bit odd. Despite removing the nvidia software thru add/remove programs, the nvidia control panels still show. One is nVidia control panel and the other is nVidia destop manager. However, they appear to be broken links since if I select or try to double click either, nothing happens. Now in reverse, there is no ATI control panel. However, when I go into the display control panel and select advanced, all the ATI tabs are there for various settings. I've tried several different settings, etc. Dunno if this means anythign, but thought I'd add it in.
Here's another oddity. I used to run at 1064x768 resolution and it was sharp, not like a top of the line thing, but sharp all the same. Here, I kept the original 1064x768 and the bleeding or heaviness was pretty significant. So, to make things better, I;m now running 1280x1024. It helps, although still a bit heavy. I thought the resoltion was native to the lcd panel, not the video card, thus why would it be better at higher res?
Well anyway, if anyone can help me sort through this I'd appreciate it. Like I said, the thing is workable and does seem faster, but the fonts (in particlar) seem rendered heavier or with a bleeding edge. I got the card since notice some slow video perofrmance and also newer games won't play on the 4mx card (not that I'm much of a game player, but....) , so I'd hate to give up a sharp card just to get a working, blurry card.
Did I do something wrong, or its it just a old system matched with a crappy card? (and then do you recommend velocty micro, falcon, alienware, or dell xps systems
)Thanks,
curt j.
Comment