Windows 7 Screen Clarity on New Build

Sandycheeks

Sandycheeks

Sandycheeks

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Hi All,
Just built a pc with
A10 5800K
Gigabyte F2A88XM D3H
8GB 1600mhz C9 Ram
Corsair CX430M
WD CB 1TB HDD
Zalman Z3 Case (quite impressed by the case..excellent for the money)
Windows 7 pro

The screen doesn't appear very clear and text is a bit fuzzy...
The monitor is my old Packard Bell LCD not sure what model atm,
(VGA input only I think). The screen res should be 1440x900.
Everything appears to be set correct such as screen res and refresh rate but I can't get a clear picture.
The monitor was fine with my old imedia system on Vista.
Any ideas ?
 
I'll be honest...I haven't updated any drivers yet.
I do have the exact same mobo in my sons pc and display is fine with that although Im having trouble trying to update the bios.
Mine has the newer bios but I haven't tried updating drivers etc...I will try this tonight.
Tried the auto adjust many times just to make sure.
 
All drivers up to date.
The text appears fuzzy still.
I googled it and it would appear there are lots of folk with this problem...
How can it be that Vista was pin sharp on my monitor yet 7 is pants ?
Not liking this one bit.
I've tried alternate themes and turning clear type off and various screen res and refresh rates to no avail.
Anybody ? (please don't suggest new monitor).
My Monitor = PKB VIS191WS.
 
I think I've just about tried everything now apart from downloading and replacing the fonts.
I think I may try a clean install just incase something went a bit pear shaped during the original (obv clean) install a couple of days ago...I don't like doing that though as the updates take a couple of hours ish.
The text is really weird...it's like the fonts are not totally black and have a slight shadowy greeny colour sort of behind / within them.

What's the prefered method when installing updates...
let it download and install critical and optional updates or
Install critical updates only.
 
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I had a similar issue (sounds like it), it was that in the monitors menu, the 'sharpness' had changed - I just needed to move it around until it looked okay again.
 
Sandycheeks said:
the thing is though, the windows, images and everything else is crystal clear...it's only the text that's not clear.
Click to expand...

Yeah, it was the same for me. I have a dual monitor, when I dragged the window to the other one it looked fine. The images and everything were fine - but the text seemed very 'Pixelly' and fuzzy.
 
I just tried my spare monitor ( Dell E173FP ) with a new VGA cable and the text was pin sharp.
I am now on the PB monitor with the new VGA cable and the text is rubbish again.
I can't quite wrap my head around this !
I'm going googling again.
It's annoying because I can't enjoy my new build until I've sorted this.
 
An obvious question, but you have tweaked ClearType as much as possible, yes? Its one of the first things I notice when I have a new monitor/windows install and usually have to spend time fiddling around with it

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28790/tweak-cleartype-in-windows-7/

Having said that if you're using VGA its an analogue signal so many possibilities for something to go wrong.
 
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Thanks for all suggestions,
I have now swapped for the Dell monitor and even though it's not widescreen and only 17" the text is spot on !
I still can't understand how my old monitor worked fine with Vista and not W7.
I just worked out that I bought my last PC (i media with PB Monitor) around 7 to 8 years ago...maybe thats the issue.
It's as though the pixels blur.
Lets hope I find a suitably cheap replacement on tomorrows deal !
 
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