Re: Dark graphics
- From: Randall Flagg <randallflagg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:54:21 -0500
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:48:41 -0500, "Jim Ludwig"
<jimlud@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Malke and others,
Thanks a bunch! The old monitor was indeed the problem. My computer is at
least 9 years old and the 22" trinitron has seen better days evidently. My
background wallpaper is the standard Win XP green pasture with blue sky and
as soon as I hooked up the other monitor (a 17" Samsung), I knew the problem
was solved. However, I actually went back to my old monitor because I'm
spoiled by the size. At least I know, now what the problem was. Actually,
I should have suspected because a while back I noticed that the sides of my
screen were starting to "shrink". I figured then that it was starting to go
out.
Nice of you to have omitted that info in your original post.
The good news is that I'm going to buy a whole new system probably.
around August.
Thanks again to all.
Jim
"Malke" <malke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim Ludwig wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble with somewhat dark video quality on my monitor. I
believe I've had this issue for a long time, but I didn't realize it
until
I
got a laptop awhile back and that screen is much, much brighter. My
Windows apps look fine, but if I play a dvd movie, watch a video, or play
a game,
it's way too dark. Where I run into trouble for instance is when my son
plays his LEGO Batmann game. It's so dark on my pc that it is actually
not
playable because you can't see half the stuff. It looks great on the
laptop. I have downloaded the latest drivers for the video card, which
is
an older nvidia Geforce card. I have tried fiddling with the control
panel that came with the downloaded driver as well as obviously messing
with the
control knobs on the monitor itself. Any thoughts to why I'm have this
dark video?
Attach the computer to a different monitor. If everything is fine, replace
the original monitor. If everything is still dark, your video card may be
going. Uninstall it and try a known-working card.
Malke
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