flatscreen settings
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- lnu
Hello. My girlfriend has a flat screen and she's having some problems with the settings - I think. I don't know much about these screens so maybe you can help:
All the pixel fonts, like windows buttons, menus - well pretty much everything has like a white drop shadow on them, or more like it's pillow embedded (like the inactive menus in windows). It wasn't there yesterday, and when I take a screenshot and zoom in on it they're not there. I have tried decreasing the screen contrast without luck. Any tips? Thanks.
- lnu0
More info: on newstoday, the red links have cyan "dropshadows". (The "dropshadows" are also aliased - no blurred stuff.)
- nu0
Have you tried resetting the screen? Most flat screens have some sort of way to let you reset the settings back to the way it came from the factory. Try that.
- lnu0
I've tried auto setup but not "factory settings". Will do.
Also the bright colors are hard to differentiate from white - is this something you have to live with with a flatscreen? It's an old screen by the way. Maybe they're better nowadays.
- lnu0
Thanks, nu. I set it to factory preset and the font thing disappeared, but then the screen looked all milky white. So I autobalanced the colors. Now the blue is set way below the red and green. Font thing still gone, but now everything is brown...
- jooka0
i think you had wrong resolution on your girlfriends screen. tft's are optimized for specific resolution.
- lnu0
I don't know, it's 1024x768. But come to thin of it, before when the screen was fine, in properties the maximum setting was 1024. Now it's suddenly waay bigger. Maybe windows thinks it's another type of screen. But why would it? The only thing my girlfriend changed was the appearence - that shouldn't change the settings or drivers should it?
- jox0
Have you tried plugging in a CRT to the machine? Is it still there then?
And yes, jooka's right - tft's aren't as flexible in the sense of resolutions and usually have a "recommended" resolution, whereas the regular CRT only has a "maximum".
- jpolk0
honestly, it just sounds like a shitty monitor...
- lnu0
It was OK yesterday.
- jpolk0
really... hmm.
- jox0
maybe it broke during the night then? :)
Seriously - try with another monitor before you start slapping the TFT back and forth.
- nu0
Humm, glad the reset fixed the font problem. Now can't you just ajust the color using the on screen settings to make it happy?
You might want to check your drivers, windows gets shitty and sometimes needs drivers if your using an LCD.
Most old LCD's would only run at 1024x768 so if you some how forced it to run at something higher it might have damaged it.
What make and model is the LCD?