Gorgeous new monitor but I cant control the intensity of the colors

[Felecha]

The boss got me a beautiful new monitor to go with my laptop. I had a dinky old CRT that could not be set to anything but 60 for refresh, due to some technical reason that someone here explained but I didnt really follow.

Anyway, it's a Dell 2208WFPt, 22 inches, HUGE area, and razor sharp of course.

But the colors - there is an icy bright intensity to the whole thing that I cant seem to figure out how to calm it down some. I have a 2 year old Dell 19", and it is calm and serene, and so crisp and yet easy on the eyes. I have the series of buttons on the bottom, a bit different on the 22 than on the 19, but both are pretty easy to do. I've tried every setting and subsetting I can find, and there seems to be a bottom line on both monitors - the 19 is gentle on the colors, even when they are dialed up to be strong - strong red is strong red, but doesnt "hurt", while the 22 is .... I keep trying to find the vocabulary work. Not glaring, but there is an "inner intensity" to the colors - reds and pinks especially, but the blues are VERY blue, also. Even with brightness and contrast and RGB dialed down, I cant find anything that affects the bottom line POWER of the coloring.

You look at something like the Yahoo home page, and the red of the Yahoo is just very very intense red, almost glowing red

 

[Modular]

What kind of graphics processor do you have in the computer? Is it an OEM PC? There must be settings that you can mess with in the graphics control panel, like brightness/contrast/color saturation, etc.

Most graphics processors (Integrated included) have settings that you can change for each monitor individually.

 

[Felecha]

NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 - I went into the Properties and tried all the color and saturation settings I could find, but even though it made things vary that were not available to vary with the monitor setting buttons on the bottom of the monitor, still I could not find anything that helped.

they DO have a bunch of .icm files that really DO change things but not one gave me anything I could bear to look at. They all looked pretty washed out.

 

[akugami]

color temperature?

 

[Felecha]

beg pardon? Color temperature? Is there a setting for that? That's a good word for it - the colors are just too hot

 

[akugami]

It's different where it's located but it should be buried somewhere in the menu settings of your monitor. It'll allow you to change between 500k, 6500k, 7500k, 9500k.

 

[Felecha]

OK, there IS a setting down in there, I can choose Warm or Cool. No adjustments, and neither is any good. Oh well

Thanks anyhow

F

 

[Dadofamunky]

All Dell monitors have CONTROL PANEL BUTTONS ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT. Click the Menu button (just play with them for a minute, you'll find it) and the color temparature can quickly be set. Ask your It guy for the manual. Or go to Dell's Web site and download the PDF. Also, brightness and contrast buttons may be directly on the front bezel. It's not that hard, you'll get it.

 

[Zap]

It may help to just reduce the brightness/contrast quite a bit, maybe down to half.

 

[Felecha]

I have been through all the menus available from the OSD control buttons on the bottom. There IS a temp control option, but it's just 2 discrete choices - warm or cool. Both are rather unpleasant. And neither actually relieves the bottom line problem - with either one, if I go to Yahoo.com, the Yahoo logo is really really red. Almost a glow-from-within red. And dropping the brightness/contrast drops everything proportionally - to get the red to calm down, the whole screen is very unpleasantly washed out.

I have the manual, and I think I've gone through just about everything there is to try.

Oh well, thanks all.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Forgive me for not reading through the thread entirely...

Does your graphics card have the normal nVidia control panel (should either be in Start -> All Programs or right click on a blank space on the desktop) ? If so, look for color settings. If it has Digital Vibrance, turn it off.