[ale] OT - ViewSoniic A90f+ Monitor

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Zeb,

    Yes, oddly enough, Viewsonic does in fact have a website.  After 
checking the site, and trying to find the answer to my question, I 
thought I'd ask the list in the event that anyone else had a similar 
experience.  Thank you so much for the thoughtful and helpful response, 
though.

zeb wrote:

>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:
>  
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>>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:
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>>>On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:56 pm, zeb wrote:
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>>>
>>>>On Thursday 26 February 2004 02:30 pm, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>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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