Blurry/Jagged Fonts

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philgons

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I just built my first computer, and everything went better than I expected. No problems whatsoever. I'm was very pleased . . . until just recently.

I'm running dual 22" Acer AL2216W monitors on a dual-DVI MSI NX7600GS-T2D256E GeForce 7600 GS video card. Both were working great, but yesterday something happened to the secondary monitor. The fonts started appearing blurry and jagged looking. I do have ClearType on. Turning it off makes things even worse.

I swapped monitors, and the problem switched to the other monitor, so I know it's not a monitor problem. The problem happens to whichever monitor is plugged into the left DVI port.

The only changes I made prior to the problem starting were the following:

1. Upgraded to the latest bios.
2. Installed nTune.
3. Installed the latest MoBo driver.
4. Installed the latest audio driver.
5. Reinstalled the latest graphics card driver (I accidentally uninstalled it).

I tried rolling back to the default Vista graphics driver, but that didn't fix it. I uninstalled nTune, but that didn't do it either.

Could the problem be with the bios, MoBo driver, or audio driver?

I'd appreciate any suggestions you might have.

Thanks.
 
Solved--Sort Of

Well, I figured out the problem. The NVIDIA software has a problem. All of the adjustments require you to hit "Apply" before they take effect, except for "Image sharpening." It appears that image sharpening for the one monitor was turned on. But now I can't get it to turn completely off. It should be at 0%, but no matter what I do, it always ends up reverting to 4%. Not a huge deal, but a little frustrating.
 
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