Monitor blur with "new" video card.
Hi!
This might be an easy one, and will probably be solved with a quick "get a new video card," but I feel it worth the time to ask regardless. I normally use an old GeForce 2 MX200 32mb card on my machine. I don't game a lot, so I never needed the ability to upgrade. Now, a friend has given me a GeForce 2 MX400 64mb card. Both are PCI. (I'm ancient, see.) One is a regular card, single outpot. The "new" one is an all-in-wonder type card; tv tuner and all.
Here's all I'm asking. I put the new card in, updated the drivers, and low and behold, after resetting the color/brightness/contrast to my liking, the screen is blurry. Very, very slightly blurry. As in, monitor is dying type blurry. Except, the monitor is new and worked fine with my old card. It is a very slight blurring; the kind you can only see on smaller text as it looks sort of fuzzy. I run at 1280x1024; at other resolutions there is no blurring. Yet, the other card did it just fine. Same monitor and all. Bold, black text is especially "blurry", as is text surrounded by black color (again, slightly, but more than other text).
Am I right in thinking this is just the new card not being as well-kept as the other? Perhaps it was never cleaned, and has just aged relatively unwell? Components are going bad? I hope so. If anyone can help... I've given the card a good once-over. Cleaned out the fan, cleaned the heat sink, blown all the dust and grime (yes, grime, yuck!) out and off of it, etc.
Thank you in advance for any help!
Bryce
This might be an easy one, and will probably be solved with a quick "get a new video card," but I feel it worth the time to ask regardless. I normally use an old GeForce 2 MX200 32mb card on my machine. I don't game a lot, so I never needed the ability to upgrade. Now, a friend has given me a GeForce 2 MX400 64mb card. Both are PCI. (I'm ancient, see.) One is a regular card, single outpot. The "new" one is an all-in-wonder type card; tv tuner and all.
Here's all I'm asking. I put the new card in, updated the drivers, and low and behold, after resetting the color/brightness/contrast to my liking, the screen is blurry. Very, very slightly blurry. As in, monitor is dying type blurry. Except, the monitor is new and worked fine with my old card. It is a very slight blurring; the kind you can only see on smaller text as it looks sort of fuzzy. I run at 1280x1024; at other resolutions there is no blurring. Yet, the other card did it just fine. Same monitor and all. Bold, black text is especially "blurry", as is text surrounded by black color (again, slightly, but more than other text).
Am I right in thinking this is just the new card not being as well-kept as the other? Perhaps it was never cleaned, and has just aged relatively unwell? Components are going bad? I hope so. If anyone can help... I've given the card a good once-over. Cleaned out the fan, cleaned the heat sink, blown all the dust and grime (yes, grime, yuck!) out and off of it, etc.
Thank you in advance for any help!
Bryce
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Did you try replacing the old card and seeing if the problem still exists with the old one, just to be sure?