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why are the sentences on monitor faded out

Mar 24, 2013 6:18AM PDT

I have a dell inspiron 530s i need to know why my monitor gets blurry with the words on screen they are faded out like when a pen writes there is hardly ink left http://tinypic.com/r/1q4fiw/6

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The picture is not that good.
Mar 24, 2013 6:23AM PDT
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its already selected
Mar 26, 2013 6:48AM PDT

cleartype is already turned on when i scroll up and down the sentences become faded like it's losing color like when a pen writes and runs of out ink some of the letters aren't full i took another picture http://i45.tinypic.com/2dha3rd.png the sentence that says come on its tuesday its faded out this is my first time experiencing this

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Some web sites do that.
Mar 26, 2013 7:23AM PDT

There's another reason for this. It happens when we change to a non-native resolution. Here's an article on that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_resolution

There is nothing to force sites to use cleartype or native resolutions so chalk it up to technology limitations. Keep in mind I'm just an electronics designer so you are not showing me anything that I would call broke.

Tell more and maybe we can improve it.
Bob

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websites
Mar 26, 2013 8:14AM PDT

my monitor have an entire paragraph faded out is what i call broke my monitor didn't used to do this i was thinking it had something to do with resolution but nothing like that was changed it only does it when i scroll it has happened on cnet as well but it never used to do this on any website

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Keep in mind I only have what you tell.
Mar 26, 2013 8:24AM PDT

I had this happen on a machine that the user had been updating video drivers. Also I've seen this as Windows runs out of memory so with that many tabs open, it's not a sure thing.

Try this. Click somewhere in the web page and then try Control+A and see if the highlighted version is readable. I had some old web site that was just bad and had to use this trick to read the page.

So in short, you must know your PC. That is, know that you have the resolution set to native as well as the supported video drivers.
Bob

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I've been able to confirm that, on my own PC,
Mar 28, 2013 4:59AM PDT

turning off hardware acceleration in the browser setting for both Firefox and IE eliminate the color distortion. I don't know what the downside might be but, after a couple of days of testing, this works. If I re-enable hardware acceleration, I begin to see the issue again.

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I'm experiencing the same issue shown in your pic upload
Mar 27, 2013 4:06AM PDT

It will happen with random text on a page. It appears to be a garbling of the colors. Sometimes a screen refresh makes it go away or I drag the mouse through it to make the distortion go away. Sometimes it comes right back in a few seconds. I'd posted my problem in the Computer help forum as it seemed to begin when I (reluctantly) installed IE 10. I don't use IE 10 but rarely and the issue was happening in Firefox as well. I played around with Clear Type but that didn't do anything. I rolled back my video driver to one from about 6 months ago and that did nothing. I uninstalled IE 10 and the problem seemed to disappear for a while. It returned but was not as severe. I re-installed IE 10 and it's definitely worse than with IE 9 but what that has to do with FF is beyond me. I'm not convinced that the updated browser didn't do something to the foundation of the OS that remained when I uninstalled it. Suspicion, suspicion. BTW, my PC is home built by myself about 3 1/2 years ago, runs Windows 7 Pro and has been operating flawlessly until this odd screen problem. Still, things are aging. I have another monitor I might try that. I could even restore an older hard drive image from months back but have been too lazy to do so. It's more of a nuisance than a worry right now. In any even, you're not crazy. I'm seeing exactly what you are.

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Another possibility in addition to my other comments
Mar 27, 2013 9:45AM PDT