Try setting the colour to 16 bit, and see if that improves the situation.
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Sounds like the right decision to me Scandal.
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You might be able to download a driver for it from online, Scandal - they should have a website; you should find it there.
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Have you tried updating the drivers Scandal??? Sounds daft but it might work...
How do you do that?
ok go to control panel and the click on system. Click on the hardware tab and the device manager. Right click on display adapters and click update driver... try all options avaliable to you 
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Can you get a sledge hammer too Shireen? :lol:
:giggle: Now you know you dont really want to do that :lol:
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Sex God
Oh dear, sorry then 
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: Assuming this is a CRT, then it sounds like a poor cable, or a fault with the focussing of the tube. However, 1280x960 is a bit of an odd res really! 1280x1024, or 1024x768 are far more common, and most websites are likely to be happier with those. Or even 800x600 if your eyes are shot.
You shouldn't need drivers, all they really do is tell the PC what res and refresh you can use, and maybe give a colour profile.
Try setting the res to a standard one, upping the refresh rate, and if it has a seperate cable, make sure both ends are fully in, it doesn't loop around anything that might cause interference and so on. If th cable is seperate, try a different one if you can. The quality of VGA cables can vary massively, and it's more noticeable on a bigger screen.
You shouldn't need drivers, all they really do is tell the PC what res and refresh you can use, and maybe give a colour profile.
Try setting the res to a standard one, upping the refresh rate, and if it has a seperate cable, make sure both ends are fully in, it doesn't loop around anything that might cause interference and so on. If th cable is seperate, try a different one if you can. The quality of VGA cables can vary massively, and it's more noticeable on a bigger screen.
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Assuming this is a CRT, then it sounds like a poor cable, or a fault with the focussing of the tube. However, 1280x960 is a bit of an odd res really! 1280x1024, or 1024x768 are far more common, and most websites are likely to be happier with those. Or even 800x600 if your eyes are shot.
You shouldn't need drivers, all they really do is tell the PC what res and refresh you can use, and maybe give a colour profile.
Try setting the res to a standard one, upping the refresh rate, and if it has a seperate cable, make sure both ends are fully in, it doesn't loop around anything that might cause interference and so on. If th cable is seperate, try a different one if you can. The quality of VGA cables can vary massively, and it's more noticeable on a bigger screen.
:shock: Whooooooooooooooooosh right over MY head, don't know about Scandal's.
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:shock: Whooooooooooooooooosh right over MY head, don't know about Scandal's.
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Orgasminator
It sounds like your graphics card driver is still seeing the old resolution (as you quoted it was like wide screen) and what is happening is your new monitor is now "bending" to fit that wide screen profile...
The figures you quote 1024/960 do some sums and see if it nearly equates to the wide screen dimentions!
If this is the case, right click on the "my computer" click properties>harware>(device manager) device manager
right click on monitors, then click "scan for hardware changes" and see if it then re-detects the new monitor...
you'll know cos when you the thing you do to get the dispaly so you can change the resolution and settings, there should be a whole new load of settings.
Also get an update (or waht ever version you have) for your graphics card if the above fails, often deleting (delete devics, graphics card) and re-installing the graphics card drivers will re-detect the monitor correctly (bit of a round about way, but there is a kaka logic in there lol)
The bluring is the monitor trying to fix a non-standard dimention (old monitor) into its own dimentions and getting mis-alignments on the didi lil holes in the mask (assuming crt) or trying to re-map pixel locations (assuming lcd).
You should also always push the re-fresh/sync up to the max the monitor will take as the higher it is, the less flicker... including flicker you cannot really see that causes headaches (look at a monitor with you head facing side ways (90- deg) to it and just using the corner of your vision if theres flicker you can end up with problems!)
(in win200 its in the advanced properties on the settings tab)
hope this gives some ideas and help :-)
The figures you quote 1024/960 do some sums and see if it nearly equates to the wide screen dimentions!
If this is the case, right click on the "my computer" click properties>harware>(device manager) device manager
right click on monitors, then click "scan for hardware changes" and see if it then re-detects the new monitor...
you'll know cos when you the thing you do to get the dispaly so you can change the resolution and settings, there should be a whole new load of settings.
Also get an update (or waht ever version you have) for your graphics card if the above fails, often deleting (delete devics, graphics card) and re-installing the graphics card drivers will re-detect the monitor correctly (bit of a round about way, but there is a kaka logic in there lol)
The bluring is the monitor trying to fix a non-standard dimention (old monitor) into its own dimentions and getting mis-alignments on the didi lil holes in the mask (assuming crt) or trying to re-map pixel locations (assuming lcd).
You should also always push the re-fresh/sync up to the max the monitor will take as the higher it is, the less flicker... including flicker you cannot really see that causes headaches (look at a monitor with you head facing side ways (90- deg) to it and just using the corner of your vision if theres flicker you can end up with problems!)
(in win200 its in the advanced properties on the settings tab)
hope this gives some ideas and help :-)
Orgasminator
If the default resolution of the monitor is 1280x1024 on a TFT display you should set it to to those settings. Any other resolution will give a poor picture.
Sex God
I think he's got a CRT one, unless he's bought an 11" deep (oooo-eeerrrrrr) TFT. :shock:
