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Thread ID: 126612	2012-09-07 08:59:00	Monitor Question (2 monitors)	mark1978 (13845)	Press F1

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1299596	2012-09-07 08:59:00	Hi, Am hoping to explain all this so it makes sense! I have 19" NEC monitor that I have been using for about 2 years now.. Just a square box! Its connected through a DVI cable? That picture is crystal clear... anyway... I just got a LCD TV given to me and its a crappy brand I know... Transonic, I thought that I would use this TV as my main monitor. It is connected with a VGA cable. I have both monitors up and running... but... The NEC monitor looks (picture wise) FAR better then the TV, I have been playing with the settings and stuff on the TV but I cant seem to make the TV look any better... Am I doing something wrong? My Graphics card is an NVIDIA GEFORCE 8400GS.. There is a HDMI connection on the TV I wonder if that would make any difference?? But then again I have to buy a new graphics card then do I? Does anyone had this problem? Do I make sense??? lol:waughh::illogical	mark1978 (13845)
1299597	2012-09-07 09:46:00	Try looking for the sharpness setting on your TV. Turn it down. Also are you mirroring or extending displays?	icow (15313)
1299598	2012-09-07 10:14:00	Am using a program called Display Fusion, I will have a look at the sharpness.	mark1978 (13845)
1299599	2012-09-07 10:52:00	Looks like extended desktops then. Have you checked that display fusion isn't trying to run both monitors at the same resolution? To check this on windows 7: right click on desktop>screen resolution>click on the display that you want to check>look at the resolution slider, it should be set to the maximum resolution (native). Not sure about XP, I think vista is pretty similar.	icow (15313)
1299600	2012-09-07 11:03:00	Monitor 1 is on 1280 x 1024 and Monitor 2 is on 1680 x1050 I cant seem to put the TV one any higher as the start icon will disappear of the screen! lol If I look at my desktop, the icons that are displayed and the writing underneath are very hard to read.. very grainy, not clear.. dont get it.. Just turned the magnifier on medium, it looks better for internet pages but the rest of windows 7 looks shocking!	mark1978 (13845)
1299601	2012-09-07 11:55:00	Do you know anyone with a computer that has an hdmi output? Could be worth a test, my tv looked a lot less grainy on hdmi than it did in vga. Text was extra bad.	icow (15313)
1299602	2012-09-07 12:03:00	Yeah I know the text is really bad, it was a little better with the magnifier on 125%, I was going to buy a cable and test it out! unfortunately I don't know anyone with a HDMI output :-(	mark1978 (13845)
1299603	2012-09-08 06:39:00	what is the native res of the tv?	inphinity (7274)
1299604	2012-09-08 20:54:00	Just connected an HDMI cable from the tv to the computer which has a DVI connection. I also have another monitor that is running on a VGA cable. The TV keeps flickering and I can't seem to find the right resolution and refresh rate! Its currently on 1440 x 900 on 60hz, but it keeps flickering, I then disabled the option for sound in the Nvidia settings and the flickering stopped! Now it is running on a 1440-900 60hz I cant seem to go any higher as it goes to small and gets distorted... also... the destop is half out of the screen, cant seem to adjust that... I then turned the pc off and restarted and the TV did not display the signal unless I changed it in the NVIDIA settings on the other monitor, so I first choose a different resolution then put it back to 1440 x 900, anyone know why it does this?? Also, the NVIDIA program said that this is a sunplus/tv monitor... while in device manager its just a generic moinitor/tv	mark1978 (13845)
1299605	2012-09-08 22:49:00	What is the native reso on the TV? Try using that. Does the computer support that reso? The cheaper TVs may not be PC compatible with HDMI, it may only work with things like gaming consoles, DVD/BR players. We had a Vivo cheap DSE brand and VGA was better for the computer. PS. I have seen that the ATI4800 card, VGA and HDMI works with diff reso ... dunno why.	Nomad (952)
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