U2711 - Unreadable text at native resolution 2560x1440

Hi Don,

Search for display. Here you can increase the text size to suit your eyes.

A common problem we all suffer through. Increasing resolution and decreasing vision.

Donsacto,

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I have the same problem. I connected my new U2711 with a DVI dual link cable to my desktop, a Dell 530s with Radeon x1300/1550 series which should support the 2560 x 1440 resolution. The text gets completely unreadable yet. When I use the other DVI-connector (the X1300/X1550 uses a DMS59 tot DVI Y cable) I can only use resolutions up to 1640 px.

Of course it is possible to magnify the characters, but that's no solution. The text gets more readable, but still looks awful. Setting the resolution to 1950 x 1280 improves the results, but at this resolution the monitor isn's very sharp either.  I didn't buy this expensive monitor to get this poor results (and I want tot use the max resolution).

Is it possible to connect two DVI-cables, and could this possibly improve the performance? Or should I buy a new graphics card? (and wich one would be suitable, I need a low profile card)?

I had the same problem with my DELL U2711. Tried setting it to 2560x1440 using my DVI cable and it all went unreadable.

The solution:

You didnt use the DVI cable that came with your breand new monitor. Instead you just used the one that were already connected from you old screen. Your old cable was a DVI-D or DVI-I SINGLE LINK cable. The one that came with your monitor is a DVI-I DUAL LINK cable.

Changed my cable and viola it worked :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

Xprt

I already used the dual link DVI cable that came with the monitor (as I mentiones in my message). So the DVI cable didn't cause the problem. I had to install a new video card (which I connected with the same DVI cable). This did solve the problem. 

Thanks for this information.  I also connected with the cable I already had intalled on my computer and once I switched to the one provided in the box, the text is now readable.

There were several people that I'd read on-line saying because of the coating they put on your monitor it ishard to read text and when I first connected the monitor to my computer, I thought they were right ... you can't see the text well.  Glad it was an easy fix.

Again, thanks for the help.

That answer was perfect, it fixed my problem immediately, thanks much!

- Charlie...