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    Colour banding on XPS M1530 (1440x900 LG)?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by SpotMe, Feb 24, 2008.

  1. SpotMe

    SpotMe Notebook Geek

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    Does anyone else here suffer from quite severe colour banding?

    For example, if you take http://ftp.us.dell.com/utility/XPS_NB_1280x864_Black.jpg wallpaper, on my XPS, I get several distinct colour bands in the background as it fades to black instead of a nice smooth gradient.

    This was a problem on the Asus A6Ja when it was released and they fixed it with a BIOS update of some description so I'm wondering if it is just my notebook, whether there is a known problem? etc.

    I'm running at native res in 32bit colour on the 1440x900 LG display running Vista Home Premium with the 169.28 Nvidia drivers (from Laptopvideo2go).
     
    SpotMe, Feb 24, 2008
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  2. neilmcl

    neilmcl Notebook Consultant

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    It's just the wallpaper itself.
     
    neilmcl, Feb 25, 2008
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  3. j4ck

    j4ck Notebook Guru

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    I see gradient on my 17" CRT.
     
    j4ck, Feb 25, 2008
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    the_forge.nz Notebook Consultant

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    I havent noticed any colour banding on my 1530
     
    the_forge.nz, Feb 25, 2008
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  5. SpotMe

    SpotMe Notebook Geek

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    Hmm, strange. It doesn't show up on my work PC!
     
    SpotMe, Feb 25, 2008
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    bmp41083 Notebook Evangelist

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    perhaps check to see if you have 16-bit colors instead of 32-bit? (rightclick desktop, properties, settings tabs, middle right pop-down menu)
     
    bmp41083, Feb 25, 2008
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  7. haquocdung

    haquocdung Notebook Virtuoso

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    it's the wallpaper itself.
    you dont have to worry
     
    haquocdung, Feb 25, 2008
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