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    Dell Inspiron 1721 blotchy pixelated display

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by iamshaked, Jan 16, 2008.

  1. iamshaked

    iamshaked Newbie

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    Im not to sure whats going on, I just did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate 32bit, all the drivers installed fine, ive noticed though that my backgrounds are very blotchy almost pixelated it seems, with the aero theme turned on you can see horrible blotchyness it seems like its not smoothly contrasting the images well at all.

    Ive installed the latest and newest driver for the ati video card, and all windows updates ect.

    The one thing i havnt been able to find is the specific lcd monitor drivers.
    When i goto the display properties its showing up as generic PnP monitor, and im not sure if that could be the culprit or not.

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    i dont have a screenshot of what it looks like im sorry, im at work currently, but this is a good reference as to what backgrounds look like, the left side you see is more pixelated then the right.

    32bit color is ON and its at the monitor highest res, lower res's dont seem to help, nor does turning it to 16bit color(ofcourse).

    Could the lcd monitor be bad?

    Has anyone else experienced anything like this similar?

    Thanks
     
    iamshaked, Jan 16, 2008
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  2. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    Is the problem only with wallpapers or with all images/ whatever displayed on the screen ?
    No, you don’t have to install any specific monitor drivers, all LCD panels are detected like that.
     
    PhoenixFx, Jan 16, 2008
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  3. iamshaked

    iamshaked Newbie

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    it only seems like its bad when theres an image that fades into different colors, for stuff like the vista task bar, that looks clear as day.


    I'm not to sure how well gaming is on this laptop, but i figured i would give it a shot.
    I tried to run UT2004 at pretty much the LOWEST settings, 800x600 and it was just struggling so bad, it was unplayable. which seems rather odd, this laptop should at least be able to do that.

    Like i said though i don't understand cause i JUST as of yesterday got the latest video card drives, and it still seems to be the issue.

    Theres 2gb of ram in the laptop and when i looked at the display properties i think windows was giving the card 800mb of it, and where it said system memory (in display properties) it shows 0
     
    iamshaked, Jan 16, 2008
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  4. NotebookYoozer

    NotebookYoozer Notebook Evangelist

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    1. max resolution
    2. dpi = 96
    3. enable cleartype
     
    NotebookYoozer, Jan 16, 2008
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  5. iamshaked

    iamshaked Newbie

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    It is at max resolution, dpi is set to 96 and cleartype is on.
    I dont see how cleartype would be causing pixelated desktop images
     
    iamshaked, Jan 16, 2008
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  6. JTOverath

    JTOverath Notebook Evangelist

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    Got the background set to stretch or tile? Stretched might look weird if the background is significantly smaller then the res you are running at.
     
    JTOverath, Jan 16, 2008
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