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Dell Laptop Screen problems

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Using my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop (nvidia geforce go 5200 chipset), I wanted to try out the systems graphics card. So I downloaded the Squid demo (for the geforce 4) off of nvidia's website. After exiting the demo, I found my screen to be blurry. Even after reinstalling the latest video drivers and restarting the computer, the problem still persists. How do I solve this?

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Right click on the desktop. Click properties. Reset screen to native resolution.(1024x768)???

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