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Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW causing eyestrain
System specs:
OS - Windows XP Pro SP2
Graphics Card - AtiRadoenX1600XT and Radoen X850 Pro (used interchangebly)
2 gigs of ram
Guys here is my problem.
I have had the 2405FPW for little under a year now. Awesome monitor (cept for being really brightness). I have been running this monitor with an NEC CRT 19" since day 1. a few weeks ago i started having issues with my dell, looking at it for even small periods would cause my eyes to get really sore! I thought the issue was using a CRT and and LCD side by side and my eyes having trouble adjusting to each. I ran both monitors at their maximum resolution 1920x1200 for the dell 1280x1024 for the NEC. I changed out my 19" crt for a 19" LCD. Now i was running two lcd's , still the same issue. I figured maybe my grpahics board could handle two monitors (tho it had for the past year) so i upgraded to a Radeon1600xt 256mb of ram. Still the same issue, i switched connectors for the dell DIV to RGB, same issue. i reinstalled windows 3 times, same problem. Updated graphics drivers same issue. I switched the 19" LCD for a 20" gateway, thinking if i had two monitors that were closer in size things might be better. Still the same issue, when i run either of the non dell monitors solo, everything seems fine. as soon as i add the Dell back into the equation, my eyes feel like somone poured sand in them. As much as i didnt want to i had to call dell and i should be getting a different monitor. I am concerned that this might happen again tho. I also noticed oddly enough that if i ran my dual desktop both at 800x600 they eye fatigue wasnt as bad? Could it be that i am needing a SLI (two videocards running as one) setup to run these monitors? Any info or suggestion would be appreciated.
BA
- badugah, turn brightness down, enable cleartype font in display settings also u can get a free program called cleartype tuner, it enables you to make the text darker and fatter than the cleartpye setting alone can.
maybe change your font size and make it a little bigger.
avoid looking at white text on a black background as that seems to burn my eyeballs some
oh yer and i change my windows explorer folder background colour from white to a light grey and i find that takes some load off my eyes too.
simply tho its either the text is a little too small for you it sounds but the brightness at standard level is quite painfull when u first get a lcd, however i got used to it after a few days and found myself turning the brightness back up some :)
if these things dont help, i cant help you there :P doubt dell will either :P
Litt77
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Posted September 3rd, 2006 20:00