My Dell ultrasharp TFT screen has become blurry - i.e. the ultrasharp is now slightly blurred at the edges - and I'm wearing my new glasses so no ribbing about the eyesight please ;-)

What could be the matter? Nearly a year old and still (hopefully) under warranty with the folks I bought it on ebay from. Is it something to do with the driver, or is it a faulty monitor. It is the same whether it's run on analogue or digital, and is the same when used on my old Win 98 PC.

All help gratefully received.

Also thinking of buying a new TFT screen to add -

This seems a great monitor 204 plus delivery on ebuyer. Anyone got any better ideas?
LG L1715S 17ins TFT 16ms 0.26mm Charcoal & Grey with 3year onsite Warranty
Diagonal Size 17"
Dot Pitch / Pixel Pitch 0.26 mm
Max Resolution 1280 x 1024 / 75 Hz
Colour support 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
Max Sync Rate (V x H) 75 Hz x 83 kHz
Response Time 16 ms
Controls / Adjustments Brightness, contrast, H/V position, gamma correction, colour temperature, phase, clock
Display Screen Coating Anti-glare, hard coating
Image Colour Temperature Adjustable
Image Brightness 250 cd/m2
Image Contrast Ratio 450:1
Image Max H-View Angle 160
Image Max V-View Angle 140
Video Input Analogue video Signal RGB
Interfaces 1 x VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15)

SC, a few questions, have you changed any setting in either the monitor or your graphics card? Have you changed the cable? Can you link the change to anything else? eg new software?

Nothing altered. It seemed to happen when my son played a new game on the old machine and has been the same ever since. Still legible and freinds without a tft are jealous but not crisp any more.

No settings altered other than sometimes change the resolution to larger print to make it comfortable to read.

SC, I suspect something has been changed possibly by the game, is there a way of resetting the TFT back to factory setting? have a look in the manual? its also possible that the refresh rate may have been set to high it should only be ablut 60 for a tft.

I cant rule it out but I would be very surprised if its a fault.

How do I adjust the refresh rate? There is a facility with the buttons to reset to factory settings. Will try now.

Hmm, just the same. Possibly refresh rate then.

Spaceman , yes it is so will look at the links tomorrow.

Cheers

SC:

I've seen and used one of those LG Flatron L1715 TFTs: it's superb, and 204 sounds like a great price.

Cheers

MM

Thanks Derek, I have a twin screen output so will probably buy one. Must go to bed now, keeping you and Spaceman up until all hours !!

SC, I dont do normal hours ;-) nor does Derek !

I've just cleaned up my XP PC at work - and today, as I was flicking between sites on Mam, I got this macromedia flash-up. I cancelled it, and it didn't seem to affect anything - is this normal?
Sorry, I don't know much :(

PS it's never happened on my 2K PC here.

chocolat, MAM do sometimes have flash ads, they are the one I find the most annoying and are the reason I now use ad blocking software.

PS whats work?

Space - I used to have the google blocker - now it's something else (can't remember - is it MSN windows?) and yes, when I log into Mam, the blocker tells me about it. But this macromedia thingie was invoking me to download something.

chocolat, the google toolbar has a pop up ad blocker (probably replaced by the XP sp2 pop up blocker) but it and the XP one only stop some types of pop ups.

I dont know which one you had but I know MAM have (or had) a GNI flash ad recently. Your Browser is probably trying to run it and saying it needs an add in which it wants to download, thats probably what you cancelled and it should not cause any problems.

You didnt tell me what work is ??? ;-)

chocolat, it's just asking you to download the flash player. Flash is a type of multimedia format, a bit like video, that is used in a number of places including advertising. Safe to download and you will eventually have to for something.

chocolat, as K says its safe to download but you may find your work does not allow it to install.

So if it happens again, I should download it?

I didn't notice the work thingie first time, Space - it's what we late night saddos have to do during the day to fill in the time. ;)

Edit: oops thanks guys, didn't see your posts.

>> MoneyAM Homepage Consuming High CPU Resources

Wondered if anybody else has this problem, or can help explain. Thanks.

My Int Explorer is consuming over 50% CPU resources, when on the MoneyAM Homepage. Opening 2 instances, max's out the CPU. Thats how I noticed it, PC was very slow when I opened a few IE6's (my homepage is set to am homepage).

No problem when I move to Traders Room page, or a whole selection of other sites, including d4f Spreadbet lite.

This PC is a P2 350 on Win98 and IE6. But trying one MoneyAM homepage on a faster PC, eg P3 800 on Win2000 & IE6, still ties-up 15% CPU resources, which is a lot higher than any other site / page.

Any comments / help / pointers/ etc much appreciated.

Regards, D.

folks...i seem to ahve the US setting on my keyboard at home.......how do i change it..if i want the # key i get something different.......any ideas?

Treble: Assuming XP. Go to Control Panel - Regional & Language Options - select English(United Kingdom).

Note, if you've got two language options selected, you can switch between them using LeftAlt+Shift, which you may have done by accident.

cheers pip will give it a try!