Displays new flat panel has fuzzy areas

I just bought an Acer AL2216W (22" widescreen)

I've bought almost 15 of these already and love them for regular office work. What's odd is the most recent one I purchased has a few "blurry" areas... When I fill the screen with text, I can see certain areas that make the text difficult to read.

I am not sure if this is a graphics card issue, or a monitor issue. (I don't want to have to return it because it is nice having 2 of these 1680x1040 beasts running side-by-side)

It should be noted my left screen works fine with no blurring, the right screen (running off of VGA) has 2 vertical bars of slight blurriness that can only be seen with text.
I have done factory resets, and I am using the monitor's native resolution.
Oh, and my video card is an on-board ATI Radeon Xpress 1150. The motherboard has a DVI and VGA output, and apparently HP is totally cool with me using both. (My more expensive Dell machines will not let me use dual monitors with on-board video, I have to choose add-on-card or on-board...)

Any tips for troubleshooting before I box it back up and send it back?

(I have had one with a few dead pixels, and the company replaced it immediately, so returning isn't a problem other than I'd loose tons of screen real-estate)

 

My fathers 24" had a similar problem running over VGA, switching to DVI made it crystal clear.

Moriquendi

 

Change your refresh rate. My screens do this when they don't like the refresh rate - Just vertical bars of blurry.

 

Have you swapped the monitor inputs over? If there is still a blurring on the new one after that, then it would be the monitor rather than the motherboard. It might be a good idea to make sure the cable routing is okay too (i.e. no power cables running near the monitor cable).

 

what you need for that is a DVI-DL to DVI-I + VGA splitter - and dell do sell them.
i use a pair of 1707fp's on my GX620 at work - and these are the USFF (mini-btx) optiplexes ... laptop drives and all ...

 

I swapped the monitors (put the blurry one on the DVI and the good one on VGA) and it looks great, no problems on either monitor.

This must mean that:

1. The VGA port is bad on this monitor
2. It needed a good power cycle to show it who's boss
3. The VGA cable wasn't seated properly (more likely )

Oh and there was only one refresh rate for the VGA monitor: 60Hz

I didn't purchase the dual-monitor card, just the single monitor card, and the motherboard only has a VGA port. My frustration was when I couldn't use both the add-on DVI card AND the on-board VGA. Even if the add-on card does dual (which it isn't supposed to, according to Dell) I'd still want to be able to make use of the on-board VGA in addition to the 1 or 2 monitors the card supports.

 

ah.

got me confused until i went back and re-read the first post ...