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Graphics blurred on monitor?
Name: stabone130 Date: April 1, 2006 at 17:56:36 Pacific OS: Windows 98 CPU/Ram: 192mb Product: Gateway Select
Comment:
I'm running Windows 98 on a Gateway Select with 192mb. When I view a website with ads or graphics or text, they appear blurred (the colors bleed outside the box) and often run across the screen. Or the text blurs a light black from left to right across the screen.
I thought it was a monitor problem - so I bought a new flat LCD computer. But the GFX on sites still blur across the screen.
Name: Derek Date: April 1, 2006 at 18:29:25 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, Video card seems likely.
If it's a separate then try taking it out and cleaning its edge connectors with a pencil eraser to clear any tarnish. It might not help but there's nothing lost by trying.
DerekW
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Response Number 2
Name: retroguy Date: April 3, 2006 at 16:36:06 Pacific
Reply:
also worth checking settings in the adaptor properties.
right click anywhere on desktop.
Properties>settings tab> advanced button.
Have a look around and if possible set things to "default."
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - BILL CLINTON
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Response Number 3
Name: Derek Date: April 3, 2006 at 16:53:32 Pacific
Reply:
Further to suggestion #2.
In Advanced go to Adapter. Note down the setting in "Refresh rate" and if it is anything other than Adapter Default give it a whirl.
Again it's a long shot because your described symptoms don't fit too well with a Refresh rate problem, but it's worth checking.
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