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Subject Anyone's Computer Screen Making Them Sick?

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Nothing wrong with my LCD monitor I bought, although the refresh rate is the same as my old 17" cathode monitor. So if it is making you all of that, it is probably the refresh rate. I have gotten use to mine, but I had a 19" old monitor that is fuzzy, so the LCD just works better anyway. So, sorry to say that if it is the refresh rate doing that running only at 60Hz, then the highest resolution you can have at the 75Hz refresh rate (and I looked at quite a few monitors before I bought mine - just a cheap one- because all of them were the same on refresh rate -which suprised me - only being the same as an old 17" monitor) is 1152 x 864. If you go up to 1280 x 960 then you will switch automatically over to 60 Hz refresh rate.

At first you will have to mess around with the controls on your monitor. I have got my monitor so I can use it. When it starts setting the Brightness to 100, it has to pretty bright in the room to begin with. Since my room is darker I am right now at night at 25 brightness. During the day I set it to 30. Now the contrast I use to run on my old monitor up high is only on 60. I use to set it higher or lower, but after awhile it stays at 60.

It will take some time for your eyes to adjust, but right now for the most part, if my eyes get strained by the refresh rate, I can use a lower resolution. It will take some time for your eyes to adjust to it so stick with it. I rather have my 19" monitor working but actually it is not all that much better although the refresh rate could go higher if the video card of your computer can handle it. I found out that after awhile with the LCD it works fine and I have gotten use to it. And right now, if I had to stretch my screen all the way across I can but still be only at say 1600 x 1200 resolution. I do not care for the 1920 x 1200 resolution because the characters are not formed enough to be enough like a person might just use bold characters all the time, but that does not really work at that resolution. It is great to watch some DVD's on it at that resolution but if necessary, I can stretch my screen at the 1600 x 1200 resolution all the way across and the characters looked more formed than at the higher resolution.

It takes a more expensive monitor actually to make it better. The problem is that people do not want to pay that much for a monitor. But as I said, and it took awhile, my eyes have gotten use to it. So that is all I can say. And for getting more space on the desktop of the screen stretching the picture all the way across can be done. I am not doing that now, but again, it is so big watching a DVD movie that I just use it at normal setting of 1280 x 960 right now. If I get back to doing some work the resolution will be set to 1600 x 1200. Anyway the games I play look fine on it, and the eyeballs will get use to it.

And yes, at first it was terrible and I always wanted to adjust the screen. It just did not look right. But if you do not look at another monitor then your eyes will adjust.

http://www.gamespot.com/games.html?type=games&category=Turn-Based%20Strategy&platform=5&page=games&dlx_type=all

Some games I play there. If you want anything better, they just do not make it, because no one wanted to pay for it. It would be too expensive for most people so the sort of minimum won. Your eyeballs will adjust.

And it may cost the same to fix my old 19" monitor that only worked about good a year or so, which was really disappointing because afterall, nothing to me is really what I want - and that was the refresh rate my CRT monitor had. But again, if it is refresh rate, you have to go lower in resolution to 1152 x 864, or 1024 x 768. But that will be so big on that monitor that you will need your computer and keyboard like 7 feet away. I sit around 2 feet away and that will be where my eyeballs to the screen always will be.

The movies really look good though so I can live with it.

Civilization
and just a Civ Fanatic sometimes.

http://www.civfanatics.com/

But of course the brain should be struggling with actually doing some programming.

Well, stick with it, it will get better.
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Original Message I just got a brand new 24" HD computer monitor with all the bells and whistles.

But, I really bummed because the damn thing makes me feel really sick. Nausea, dizziness, I also have the prickly feeling all over the body. Like if you sat right in front of a TV set.

I set the monitor an arm and 1/2 length away, any that is still not helping.

Anyone have an ideas, thoughts, or good links to share?

Thanks!

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