TFT Monitor

[Cody]

I bought a Philips 170S TFT monitor and I cannot configure it to look right.
Red bleeds into the fonts when they are bold and the white letters on all XP
windows and the photos online look screwy. Everything else looks fine. I
have used FPAdjust that came with the monitor, E-Color that came with my ATI
Radeon 9200 and fooled with the OSD and the video card's configuration
utility to no avail and it's driving me nuts! I am thinking of going back to
CRT.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Cody

 

[Noozer]

I bought a Philips 170S TFT monitor and I cannot configure it to look
right. Red bleeds into the fonts when they are bold and the white letters
on all XP windows and the photos online look screwy. Everything else looks
fine. I have used FPAdjust that came with the monitor, E-Color that came
with my ATI Radeon 9200 and fooled with the OSD and the video card's
configuration utility to no avail and it's driving me nuts! I am thinking
of going back to CRT.

What is the native resolution of the monitor? Set your display to that
resolution. Also, turn off cleartype.

If you can use a DVI cable it will look better.

 

[Cody]

What is the native resolution of the monitor? Set your display to that
resolution.

I've done that.

Also, turn off cleartype.

Looks worse if I do that.

If you can use a DVI cable it will look better.

What's that?

Cody

 

[MorituriMax]

I've done that.


Looks worse if I do that.


What's that?

Basically a fancy digital output cable.. new video cards should have at
least one dvi output, a strange square plug, if you're using a regular d-sub
cable then you're not getting NEARLY as pretty or sharp a picture.. the
audio-video section of your local shopping center should have them on hand..

 

[Cody]

Basically a fancy digital output cable.. new video cards should have at
least one dvi output, a strange square plug, if you're using a regular
d-sub cable then you're not getting NEARLY as pretty or sharp a picture..
the audio-video section of your local shopping center should have them on
hand..

I am using the cable that came with the monitor and it plugs in to the same
place a CRT monitor would plug into and the card only has one place to plug
a monitor in and a jack to plug a TV in.

Cody