Monitor Trouble
<div class="IPBDescription">meh...</div> my monitor = NEC Multisync FE750
It seems that the more bright colors being displayed on screen, thats when everything looks normal. However, the more dark pixels on screen, the darker everything becomes. If I were to say, open up paint and fill the entire space with black, the entire screen gets darker overall. It's not so much a problem around the web, but when I'm playing City of Heroes there are some areas that are practically pitch-black. I can only imagine what NS would look like.
This problem started may 29, and before that day it was working fine. The only thing I had done the day before besides playing CoH was updating Zonealarm. The only way I know of to correct the problem is to surn my monitor off, then on again. This corrects the unusual darkness but only for a minute or so. I know it's not something life-threatening, but still it's pretty irritating.
Much caek and pai for whoever helps! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
It seems that the more bright colors being displayed on screen, thats when everything looks normal. However, the more dark pixels on screen, the darker everything becomes. If I were to say, open up paint and fill the entire space with black, the entire screen gets darker overall. It's not so much a problem around the web, but when I'm playing City of Heroes there are some areas that are practically pitch-black. I can only imagine what NS would look like.
This problem started may 29, and before that day it was working fine. The only thing I had done the day before besides playing CoH was updating Zonealarm. The only way I know of to correct the problem is to surn my monitor off, then on again. This corrects the unusual darkness but only for a minute or so. I know it's not something life-threatening, but still it's pretty irritating.
Much caek and pai for whoever helps! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Comments
Should be a button on your monitor to do so, or in the monitor's control panel if it has one.
*goes off to investigate*
Oh yeah, forgot to mention - my Mitsubishi also makes really high pitched noises occassionally, turning up the refresh rate seems to fix this but it doesn't save the settings on restart.
If yours has it, you may want to set the white-temp value to a higher K. Other than that, it sounds like a 'power saving feature' all right. It sees that a good chunk of the screen doesn't need power, so it decreases the output. Unfortunately, that would darken the rest of the screen.
It's not a pronounced problem on my monitor, but I've got my gamma ramps set up in the Catalysts correctly. Only difficulty is that some shades of black don't show up too well, when they're pretty close together. (within 15 shades or so, on a 255-scale).
ok, so where do i go to fix that. screw power saving.
oh yeah, degaussing doesn't help... :/
Alternately, go to the NEC website and see if they have your monitor's manual in PDF format. It might list in there.
Extra-alternately, see if their tech support has any ideas... they have the address on the NEC website. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Oh, and Talesin, my monitor does the stretching thing too... always has. I think it's just warming up.
<!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Jun 1 2004, 02:01 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jun 1 2004, 02:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It may be a problem with the power somethings in the monitor. I had a monitor that when the pixels got bright/dark, white/black the size of the screen would actually get bigger and smaller by as much as a quarter of an inch. This could easily be a similar thing.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
All monitors do that to some degree, but lesser quality monitors do the stretching more than those of better quality. I don't think it's a power saver "feature", but instead poor power management. Just like when one turns on a high-demand device and sees the lights dim, the monitor must "work" harder to emit bright light, thereby pulling in the edges due to the demand. Better monitors adjust faster.