Blurry Screen

addle_brains

addle_brains

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For some reason, every now and then, my screen goes blurry. (First I thought it was my eyes, but no, it's the monitor.) It's an acer AL1916 and an 8600GTS. For some reason it just gets blurry, and then I go to bed, wake up and it's fixed. I tried rebooting, auto-setting the monitor, turning it off and on again. No dice! Anyone else had experience with this before?
 
All over blurry or just in specific spots? If It's blurry all over It might be the monitor itself, If just in spots or lines, then the drivers or video card.. Try reinstalling drivers yet? Maybe pull back to an older version just for awhile to see if it helps at all.
 
Yeah, I'm with you on the native resolution thing. Perhaps the drivers are faulty, causing it to revert to non-native resolutions here and there. Does it go blurry while you're using it, not doing anything in particular? When you open an application? A game, maybe? Are you running any visual theme programs?
 
You'd know if you weren't using the native resolution as things would be much larger ;) Are you using DVI. Could you try another monitor on the system?
 
Res is fine at 1280 X 1024. I hardly ever switch off my computer, so I'll switch the screen on after not using it for a while and everything is sort of double. Like, just to the right of everything is a kind of shadow of it. Very confusing. It's not good for the eyes. It does it every so often and I've updated drivers many times since it first started. Normally if I play a game or something for a few hours it goes back to normal.
 
I tend to go with the previous post, try re-seating the card and unplug/plug all connections.

You don't have a drink problem do you :P
 
Try resetting the monitor within the menu? The monitor specific setting might be off, OSD, phase, convergence, etc, though I've never encountered that shadowing.. LCD monitors don't physically need a refresh rate but the video card and apps do, make sure that's set to where it should be. If you could test a second monitor on the system it would be great!

Worst case, monitors dying. They usually exhibit some signs when they are, mine has a circular spot that is super sensitive to image persistence, burning.
 
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