G90F problems?

[imported_Reck]

I got my monitor today way ahead of schedule...and I dunno what's up with it. Text looks a little hazy at anything above 1024x768. WTH anyone know anything about this? At 800x600 and 1024x768 the text looks reasonably sharp enough...Games though...look utterly incredible, it's actually a bit disconcerting it looks so good. It's just the text and man this monitor flickers just like the samsung 997 I had as well. Could it be my video card causing that? How do you completely remove the drivers? I think I'll try to go back to an old version. The card is the elsa gladiac 920...

The sad part is I can't even afford 40 bucks to ship it back. As you can imagine I'm pretty pissed.

 

[Bucksnort]

What refresh rate are you using and what resolution is blurry? Higher the refresh rate the more blurry text will be. Also do not set brightness and contrast too high as that will blur.
Do you have the viewsonics monitor.inf file installed?
Proper way to remove driver is to uninstall nvidia display driver in add remove.
Reboot and go directly into safemode.
Run driver cleaner for Nvidia.
Restart and when u enter windows clik "cancel" on any new hardware found insert disk etc message.
Clik on the nvidia driver.exe and install new driver.
Download driver cleaner here
Driver cleaner

 

[imported_Reck]

The resolution I was tring to use is 1280x1024@85htz. Bumping the refresh down to 60@1280 makes the text ok...but not as good as 1024x768. At 1024@85htz the text is sharp. Also when I try to run at 1280x1024, I get this weird wavy effect in the image. I reinstalled the video drivers and monitor drivers with drive cleaner and it still flickers. Could it be my video cards hardware is damaged then? Other monitors that have flickered with my computer are the samsung 997 and the viewsonic a90f+.

I should add that 1280x1024@85 is supposed to be this monitors optimal resolution!

I've heard that an out of focus monitor can be adjusted with the pots?

Hm well tinkering with the moire issue has helped a little but I still can't get it right. What's the name of that monitor adjust software again? Isn't it made by nokia or something?

 

[Bucksnort]

Its made by nec and wont work on another brand. Have you ruled out emi from fans, speakers, appliances too close to monitor? Also is your monitor plugged into a surge unit? If so try plugging monitor into a outlet that has nothing else on it but the monitor. The wavy pattern is moire.I don't guess you have another video card you can try or another computer you can hook the monitor to?
Read over this page carefully

Also if you have your video card overclocked take it down to stock speeds.

 

[imported_Reck]

Well the video card is the problem now! I was troubleshooting...I took out my soundcards since I remembered the flickering started to get bad after I installed my chaintech av710. I go to boot back up and I'm not getting a signal. It acts like it wants to, it gets a green lite then just goes back into power save mode. Unplugging the monitor cable in back it makes the monitor crackle as if it's getting some signal, then goes into save mode. My old monitor has the same response so it is the video card. Man...I'm so unlucky. Guess I'll hit the freebies thread...

 

[cheetah26]

Dont know if this will help....


I suspect it might be ur vidcard. The reason is I was at an internet cafe equipped with Samsung

955df's, some monitors ran off gf4mx 128mb cards and some were radeon 7000 cards . Anyway the gf4

machines generally gave me eyestrain (some the worst I ever had) whereas the anemic Radeon 7000's

were very easy on the eyes. At first I thought it was the monitor too, but I guess it was the card (maybe

they were no name crap?)



So if u can , I reccomend u try another vc (mebe a Radeon?)

just my 2 cents

also if someone knows better please correct me


Good Luck!

 

[imported_Reck]

AHHHHH! (that's not joy) I got the picture to come back again! I took both soundcards out and it showed up fine. God I'm seriously going crazzzyy here over multiple things! Alright so why does having both soundcards in happen to kill the signal of my video card? I put them in as they were before...The cards are the soundblaster live value and the chaintech av710. Maybe the cd rom cable going to the live changed? How would that cause a problem though?

Ok and this monitor flicker is just...I think my eyes may be damaged from using a flickering monitor for too long...everything flickers now especially white pages. God am I nuts? I used a lcd earlier and that seem to flicker as well.