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xJustin8

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November 3rd, 2007 21:00

Need help!

Hi I am new to the forums and I need some help! I have a Dell XPS M170 laptop and I just formatted my computer with the windows cd it came with. Once I did that I installed the drivers from dell.com and now when i use it every image i see on websites look very bad as far as quality some of them are even hard to read. I have the upgraded video card too the Nnida 7800 Go Gtx. The computer was not like this only until i formatted it. Also it seems to be slower and i think its because of the video card as well but im not sure... Can anyone help!?
  • patient

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    Posted November 4th, 2007 04:00

    Is this true for everything you see on the screen (even the desktop)?
     
    I think you simply have to change your screen resolution.  Try this:
    - if you are running Windows Vista, right click on the desktop, select "Personalize", then click on "Display Settings".  This will let you change the display resolution that is used.  Try moving the slider all the way to the right.  Also make sure that the color depth is set to "Highest 32 bits".
    - if you are running Windows XP (from memory), right click on the desktop and go into "Display Settings", then apply the same settings as above.
     
    that should do it.
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    Posted November 4th, 2007 05:00

    if patient suggestions does not help...double check the driver you installed to be sure it was the correct driver.....might try re-installing the driver
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    Posted November 4th, 2007 15:00

    I am using Windows XP and my current driver version for my video card is 8.4.6.9. Everything on my desktop looks crystal clear and great but websites look bad and everything seems to be running VERY slow compared to before. Such as when I have 1 internet page open and try to open a new window that takes a lot longer than it used to even if IE is the only thing running.. That might have to do with ram or maybe even the video card too. And like i said earlier this all happen after I reformatted my computer never happen before.
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    Posted November 5th, 2007 17:00

    By the website images looking bad what do you mean? Do they look pixelated? Can you still read the text fine? Does this only happen with website images? Also, you can try downloading the nvidia drivers straight from nvidia http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_163.71.html let me know if this helps.
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    Posted November 6th, 2007 11:00

    Yeah like everything looks pixelated... Such as images that have words like on this site the where it says "Dell Forums" the quality of the picture looks bad and like the letters are squeezed together. Another example is if you go to yahoo.com and look at the big Y in yahoo on the image and if you look at where the letter slants it looks bad if that makes sense..
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    Posted November 6th, 2007 12:00

    Have you tried using a different browser like firefox for example?
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    Posted November 6th, 2007 14:00

    no havent tried that.. i also play world of warcraft and i noticed the text in there as well is very low quality... so i doubt it is IE
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    Posted November 6th, 2007 14:00

    Alright well then just try downloading the newest nvidia drivers which can be found here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_163.71.html
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    Posted November 7th, 2007 02:00

    Ok well i tried to download those drivers and once I reached the setup part of it after it extracted all the files it gave me this error, "The NVIDA set up program could not locate any drivers that are compatiable with your current hardware. Setup will no exit." ??
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    Posted November 7th, 2007 11:00

    Whats the version of your geforce?