My monitor has a brown hue, anyway to fix?

[Arsinek]

So I'm a graphic designer and recently have needed to start doing work at home. I've always known about this problem but it never really bothered me because I only used my home PC for typical home PC stuff but that has changed now.

I have 2 monitors, my main monitor, which is the one with the problem, is a 24 inch Samsung SyncMaster T240 and my other monitor is some old Dell flat screen thats like a 19 inch I bought for $50.

The entire picture on my main monitor has a brownish hue, it looks like crap. And my $50 dollar old Dell monitor looks much more accurate, no brown.

Any ideas whats going on here?

One thing I did which may have messed up my monitor was use Samsungs monitor calibration software that came with the monitor. I want to say when I first got the monitor it didnt have this problem until I used that software.

 

[ViRGE]

If you've been playing with calibration software then that could definitely be a culprit. Delete your custom profiles and go back to stock (sRGB if it's available) and see what happens.

 

[KingFatty]

I have the same display but didn't use the software.

My question is what did the software actually do to change the display?

Can you press the buttons on the display to bring up the little control menu, and browse through the various settings and let us know what they are (like contrast, red, green, blue, brightness, etc.)?

Maybe it's just a matter to changing your settings back to good ones, which are accessed by pressing the physical buttons on the display. There is even a "reset" options in the display menu, if you want to try that to start.

Worst-case is your backlight is dying and so dim that the monitor is technically broken.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

I've seen different colored hues on various monitors. For me, it was always fixed by changing the video cable. Either the pins get bent and don't make a connection or the internal wiring gets messed up.

 

[ruben_c]

How did you calibrated with your Samsung tool? You didn't use a calibration tool?

If you wish to have reliable colors on both screens, you need a sensor like a Spyder for example. Otherwhise there is no device for the Samsung software to "read" the colors correctly and the result is the color tint you got...

 

[KingFatty]

What would happen if, while viewing a monitor showing the brown hue, you also listened to headphones playing the brown note?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note

 

[hawtdawg]

probably a lack of blue in the greyscale. put up a greyscale ramp and toy with the RGB controls until it looks neutral.

 

[Arsinek]

Digging this tread up for people with Samsung monitors that may have same problem.

The problem appears to be the Samsung driver. If you Google around youll come across Samsung monitor owners with the same problem.

If you use Photoshop, Photoshop will actually tell you your Samsung color profile is defective.

The fixes Ive seen so far are to stop using the Samsung driver and use windows plug and play driver, which I havent figured out how to do yet.

Or just change your color profile. The thread I saw talking about it the person said they switched to Adobe RGB.

I still havent fixed the problem myself. Id like to remove the Samsung driver and switch to Windows plug and play but Im having a hard time setting that up.

 

[tweakboy]

Brown means its bad..... You might need a clean format... gl