Section of monitor is...BLURRED?!?!

[MrChipMuthabored]

I just went out and got the Samsung 753 DynaFlat monitor (17", 16" viewable; 1280 x 1024 max res.; 179.99 w/ rebate).

Got home, installed it. Now, something was not right to my eyes, for it seems in the top-left hand corner of the screen it appears to be much more blurrier and less brighter than other parts of the screen. You can notice this just by looking up occasionally at the menu bar and seeing that "File" and "Edit" are blurry, and consequently you have to re-adjust your eyes. I have the display at a 1024x768 (85mhz) res, and the problem is even more apparent with a 800x600 res, as you can tell that the desktop icons in the area of question are much grainier than the same icons I placed somewhere else on the screen. Now, would this be attributed to the monitor itself? Or possibly the video card (geforce2 MX, 32MB)?

I didn't have a problem like this on my previous monitors. Anyone else ever experience something like this?

Thanks!

 

[kazeakuma]

have you degaussed your monitor? sometimes I find with new screens they have to be degaussed out of the box.

 

[MillionaireNextDoor]

what kazeakuma said; degauss. magnets near it; a no-no (i.e. subwoofers, etc.).

 

[Supergax]

I have the same problems with my soon to be RMA'ed Viewsonic 19" P95f. Try adjusting other thigns, such as convergence and focus; and less likely but still maybe a problem is moire or vertical linearity. I know on my monitor I can adjust almost all settings for quaters of the screen, so just search through the OSD and play with things, if you really screw things up you can always just set it back to the default settings. Just dont' degauss the monitor alot, it is bad for it. Also try it on another system or video card if possible.

The entire rigth edge of my screen is slightly out of focuse, and I plan on RMA'ing it after spending almost 500 on this monitor (I've tried different vid cards and wahtnot).

 

[MrChipMuthabored]

OK, I've tried all the hidden settings for like an hour or two now...whew! I can't believe this is happening. Now that I'm staring at this monitor for a while now, I can say that this thing is not working like its supposed to. It looks like not only the Top-left side of the monitor is out of focus, but it seems that the left side of the display is out of focus and "faded" as well.

Yeah, as soon as I get the chance, I'm taking this baby back to Best Buy and swapping it.

 

[BadThad]

I've seen this before on other brands, you will not be able to regain focus there without adjusting the electron gun...and you don't want to even try that, LOL. Take it Back!