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hoochiepanther
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December 29th, 2004 02:00
2001FP 20 inch flat panel
2001FP 20 inch FLAT panel
(this is garbage for the price its selling for)
my head is hurting from looking at this
i love my sony trinitron
i thought DELL would make a decent LCD it being 16ms advertised and all
i think im going to return this, im forced because my head hurts after 10 min
the colors are decent , but its kinda blurry and i have no idea how to fix this!!!
i think ill just buy a cheap 19 inch monitor or something
any feedback?
PS:
Oh ya, 1 more thing, DVI slot???!?!?! where does it go in the PC????
the white female on the vid card is differnt then the male plug for monitor
because at the moment im using the blue 15 pin hole.
i doubt that is reason though.... for hurting eyes
MichChampagnie
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Posted December 29th, 2004 13:00
Got mine in November and it was so amazingly bright i could barely keep my eyes on it. On the monitor you can turn down the brightness. I also found the native resolution extreamly small for my eyes. In XP i've found three options.
1.Play with the font size adjustments by right clicking on your desktop and from the Appearance tab select Advanced. Go thru the items and settings making everything larger.
2. You can also go to the Settings tab and change the dpi setting making everything larger.
3. Drop your resolution a step from the default.
I ended up dropping my resolution and customizing the font sizes.
After a couple weeks i found myself increasing the brightness little by little.
Good Luck
hoochiepanther
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Posted December 30th, 2004 16:00
where also is windowx xp clear type?? off and on buttons is where?
still cant find why DVI cords mis match, i went to costco and saw some monitors they all have a different kind of cord, white caps just like mine, but female and male match vid card to monitor, dELL 2001FP does not match same white caps to vid card. its different
hoochiepanther
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Posted December 30th, 2004 16:00
I have dimension 84003.4ghz, 1gb ram, 256mb 6800 vid cardthere is a white FEMALE holes.. in vid card, DOESNT MATCH THE MALE DVI cord for monitor!thats what im talking about.....they are different.....anyone knows why????far as dpi in settings/advance, its set at 96and i have tried adjusting brightness and contrast, helped a bit to get that color better, but i still want to know how to connect these dvi slots if they dont match- You are referring to the DVI cable that the monitor came with right?The DVI ends are different than what the adapter looks like for analog. The dvi cable has the 3 middle pins missing in the pin cluster, the little pins above and below the flat pin, and the flat pin is narrower. It works fine. I believe those missing pins are needed for the analog signal only.
Message Edited by NavyDood on 12-30-2004 01:09 PM
Clear Type can be found :
Right Click an empty space on your desktop
Next box shown, click on Properties near bottom
Next box, click on Appearance on top
Click on Effects on the lower right side on the next box
And now in this next box you will see either Standard on the second box or Clear Type. If it says Standard than click the down arrow and select Clear Type. Click OK at the bottom and OK again in the Display Properties box. You are done
hoochiepanther
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Posted December 30th, 2004 21:00
ok it really doesnt change colors of anything, just the text gets different.far as the DVI yes thats what i was talking about and basically its monitor female fits into cable male.but it doesnt fit into nvidia 6800 vid carddifferent pin hole design2 sqaures for DVI, but the 6800 card has a rectanglehoochiepanther
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Posted December 30th, 2004 21:00
thanx i did the appearance, effects, it was on STANDARD
i changed it to clear
but i cant see a difference...
ill try restarting pc, but far as this goes so far, it looks same..
and the DVI slot my 2001fp dell monitor has, the female fits into the male connector, but then my nvidia 6800(regular) does not have the same female connection. it has a rectangle white female box, and the cord and monitor female are 2 Squares instead of a rectangle.
ty for more input on this
- Not sure what the problem is with the DVI port.You have a 6800 card, top of the line, so it has both VGA and DVI (which is white) plus the s-video somewhere on the card.Just plug the DVI cable from the monitor into the DVI port on your card. What's so hard, how could it be different? Do you still have the DVI to VGA (blue port) attached to the male DVI end on the monitor?Since I don't have my monitor yet, I don't know if these come with two separate cables for DVI and VGA attached to the monitor, or if it just has one DVI cable with an adapter that changes it to VGA, which is where you have it connected at the moment.Leaving it on VGA could cause some ghosting around text and other picture quality problems.
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Posted December 29th, 2004 10:00
Always set your monitor ( LCD ) at the native resolution and for that monitor its1600x1200
The white connector on the monitor is for the DVI cable and should be connected to a video card with a white connector as well. Since you only have a blue ( Analog ) connector on your video card than you can never experience the digital clearity of DVI. Live with it or purchase a DVI video card that has both DVI and Analog.
You may want to check if you have the windows xp Clear Type set to ON for a clearer picture as well. Many have over looked this and they are supprised to see a big difference. I really don't think its the monitor but you just have not set the settings according to the monitor. Give it a try