[ale] OT - ViewSoniic A90f+ Monitor

[zeb]

Does Viewsonic have a web site?  Does that web site have technical or 
installation manuals on it?  That might be some help.-- Zeb

On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:55 am, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Well, no response yet from my email to the Viewsonic folks, but I
> did try cranking down the refresh rate.  Now, I had always thought
> that a higher refresh rate was better for the eyes, so I would
> crank the monitor up, generally the setting just below max.  I
> bumped this down to 60Hz, and it does seem to be a little crisper. 
> I'm going to give it a day or two to verify.
>
> nathan
>
> Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> >On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:56 pm, zeb wrote:
> >>On Thursday 26 February 2004 02:30 pm, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> >>>Ok, so I upgraded my old 17" Optiquest Q72 (around 5 years old)
> >>>with a new 19" ViewSonic UltraBrite A90f+ monitor (moved the 17"
> >>> to my Linux box, got it running dual head with my Matrox G400
> >>> Pro
> >>>
> >>>:-D).  Primarily because I got used to 16x12, and my 17"
> >>>: Optiquest
> >>>
> >>>just wouldn't do it. Well, it (the A90f+) will do 1600x1200 with
> >>> a refresh rate of 120Hz, but it just seems 'fuzzy'.  Now, it's
> >>> running on a (gasp) Windows XP Pro box, and I've got an ATI
> >>> Radeon 8500 Pro 128MB video card (that seemed to provide a nice
> >>> crisp picture to the old 17" monitor).  I've gone through the
> >>> settings, and tried to tweak it, but it's still just, well,
> >>> kindof fuzzy.  It would probably be hard to notice to the
> >>> casual user, but I have to stare at it for extended periods of
> >>> time, and it's a problem.  Any of you have any suggestions? 
> >>> Did I get a lemon?  I've tried ViewSonic's support (e-mail),
> >>> but haven't gotten anything back from them yet.
> >>>
> >>>nathan
> >>
> >>A long, long time ago, in a land far away....I used to fool with
> >>television sets.  They had vacuum tubes and other interesting
> >>things--like resistors and capacitors.  One of the interesting
> >> things they had was a "focus control".  Turning it this way and
> >> that way made the picture sharper.  Because monitors use CRTs
> >> just like TV sets do, I suspect there must be some way to change
> >> the focus.  I would specifically ask the Viewsonic people about
> >> this.  I don't believe they can manufacture every unit with a
> >> perfect focus.  Please let us know the solution to this problem.
> >>
> >>Good luck, Zeb
> >>
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> >I have always noticed that the higher the refresh rate or higher
> > the resolution I used on any monitor the less crisp the video
> > becomes.  Not sure what causes it, but It's always been that way.
> >
> >
> >Calvin...
> >
> >
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