pencilcase
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Originally posted by: xtknight
VGA is only as good as the device from which it's generated (the RAMDAC). VGA has the potential to be very good. That's the case with my VP930b, but I'm sorry to hear your experience was far from mine. Of course, it could be the monitors at fault
I was eventually able to get a clear picture on the Sony by pressing the Reset button on the OSD menu. I tried it on both my laptop and my desktop and it produced clear text. So, it seems that the vga signal from my graphics card is ok.
The problem is that I have tried all sorts of adjustments on the SM770P but I can still not get clear text. When I press the Auto-setup button in MagicTune, it runs through a scale of 0 to 100, reaches a point where text seems reasonably clear and then shifts out of focus again by the time it reaches 100. It's very frustrating as the whole thing happens very quickly and there's no way of stopping it at the optimal setting.
I've also tried all sorts of tweaks using softMCCS including the Auto-Adjust and Set to Factory defaults functions, but to no avail. Internet browsing is so uncomfortable that it makes my eyes hurt after just 5 or 10 minutes of using the monitor.
I'm not sure how laptops are hooked up so the 15" display may be getting a digital signal, or perhaps a better-quality analog one.
True, in "Graphics Properties" my laptop LCD shows up as digital.
Is there anything I can do to resolve this issue short of buying a new computer?
New laptop I assume? You can just slip a PCI/AGP/PCIe video card with DVI in your computer, right? If your laptop doesn't have a modular graphics module (like NVIDIA's MXM) I'm afraid that is the case. Unless there is some USB or PCMCIA solution, but I'm not familiar with that area.
I see. Unfortunately, my desktop is a SFF system with no expansion slot other than one mini-PCI, so upgrading to discrete graphics is not an option. However, I'll probably have to factor it in in future builds. When planning my current system I thought that onboard graphics would be sufficient as I had no intention of playing games or doing fancy photo work, but I now wish I'd paid more attention to the differences between VGA and DVI.