Ive recieved my Dell 2005FPW and its killing my eyes

[Reckie]

Thought it was great first but there is some kind of variations in light or flicker almost like running a CRT-monitor on a low refresh rate. Should a LCD TFT really have similar problems at 60Hz refresh rate?

I can only it use for a couple of minutes and my eyes starts to strain and after 30min i dont want to sit it front of it anymore.

Is this really how its supposed to be on a LCD?

 

[Baked]

You must have a really cheap video card that can't handle the 2005FPW. Which video card you got?

 

[JBT]

Something sounds wrong. It shouldn't flicker at all. Either ur monitor is busted or ur video can't take it.

 

[bowserjs]

Yeah, something is wrong, i have 4 of them and no flicker at all, is the cable connected securly

 

[Reckie]

Ive got Galaxy Geforce 6800GT running on DVI-D connector, same problem on D-SUB.

I also tried it on my other computer using a card from the stoneage and had similar eye strain.

Maybe my eyes just can cope with a TFT? (Ive had no problems with laptops though)

Perhaps I should call Dell to make shure nothing is wrong with it, perhaps get a replacement to try?

 

[Cheesetogo]

try turning down the brighness really far.

 

[Reckie]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo

try turning down the brighness really far.

Sorry, I forgot to type a proper first post, I was fuming over the crap display or crap eyes of mine.

Brightness is set to 0 in monitor OSD, ive also lowered it to 65% in the nVidia drivers. Cant lower it any further without it getting too dark.

 

[TStep]

In the past I put together a cheepo system for a friend who absolutely had to have a 17" LCD and wanted the whole comp w/ trimmings (DVD 8x, ~3000mhz performance, 512 ram, TV tuner, etc) for under $600. I used an nforce2 IGP setup so it was vga with a 17" LCD. Needless to say, discrete graphics probably had a cleaner signal, but there was no budget due to 1/2 being spent on the manditory LCD.

What I experienced was a slight vertical wave being translated horizontally across the screen somewhat similar to flicker. At first I thought the IGP just wasn't going to be able to drive the LCD. After much experimentation, I was able to resolve the issue with a different set of nVidia drivers, so you may want to experiment along those lines a bit.

 

[Reckie]

Thanks TStep, mine is also very similar to flicker, my eyes react as if it was.

I will look out for new drivers, problem is i cant run any older drivers since the widescreen resolution aint supported by them. Can i somehow get hold of beta drivers? (Im running 66.93 now)

 

[Sforsyth]

Maybe you need drivers for the monitor, mine does or it won't play games.

 

[JBT]

yes there are TONS of beta drivers.

Look on the nvnews.net driver forum for links.

 

[MrMiyagi]

Forceware Drivers from Guru3d. I dont know if these are considered betas or what, but I've got a 6800nu running my 2005fpw on the 71.90's with no problems. Then again I never had the problem you are right now....

 

[DanDaMan315]

There is no flicker on LCDs, the light source is constant, only the color shades change, therefor there can be know flickering unless you have a bad backlight.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Originally posted by: Reckie
Ive got Galaxy Geforce 6800GT running on DVI-D connector, same problem on D-SUB.

I also tried it on my other computer using a card from the stoneage and had similar eye strain.

Maybe my eyes just can cope with a TFT? (Ive had no problems with laptops though)

Perhaps I should call Dell to make shure nothing is wrong with it, perhaps get a replacement to try?

If you bought that video card you may want to try another video card first. Hopefully that isn't the problem, but it might be.

 

[Reckie]

My eyes seem to react on light much more than before so I have probably been blinded a bit when running the screen on its standard brightness settings for the first few hours.

So a tip is to reduce the brigthness quite a lot so you dont hurt your eyes like ive done.