Is my new Dell 2005FPW bad? And How best to calibrate it?

[belsokary]

I just purchased two dell 2005fpw lcd's, and hooked them up to my dell dimension 8200 via a dual geforce 440mx card (using vga connection)...

The first thing I noticed right away, is that tere was a lot of backlight spill onto the screen on one of my two monitors...no settings really seem to help this issue. One of them has a little, and is barely noticeable, but the other is VERY noticeable. Is this a bad monitor? I called Dell but their tech people don't seem to understand the issue. While it has a 3 year warranty, I would definitely like to start off on the wrong foot.

Another reason one of the monitors seems to have issues is that I tried using nvidia's calibration program, but it didn't seem to really do the job well...One would think that in a side by side environment, that they would have relatively the same settings, but they were very different...the one with backlight issues just seems to be much brighter overall, and changing the brightness setting doesn't seem to help at all...

Are there better programs to try out there in terms of calibrating my monitor? Thanks.

 

[cockeyed]

Do a Google search for WiziWYG and give it a try. You can use it's wizard to create a new monitor profile. It's a free download, so there is nothing to lose but a little time.

 

[akugami]

Early 2005FPW's had a backlighting problem. Most of it has been solved. My own contains some backlighting problems but it's off in the corner and I deem it unintrusive enough to not bother RMA'ing it. That and a stuck grey pixel off in the same corner. I have to actively look for the bad pixel to even notice it.