Have the 7811. The screen is too blue! Also second monitory blurry! How to fix?

I do photoshop crap for my job and I noticed on my last mockup hand in (and first project I did entirely on this laptop) that when on other computers instead of the web design looking a soft blue it was more green.

Basically I guess my laptop's display is too blue heavy and I don't know how to color correct.

2nd problem: When I plug in my desktop monitor to use two displays the Dell E228WPF is blurry. It's actually a very crisp screen when on my desktop. It says the drivers are up to date but still I cannot fix the blurriness when I connect it to my laptop.

Fix please? lol

 

Well I've got the external monitor unblurry.

Now I just need to cure the laptop display from it's Blue Overdrive! Help!

 

Right click on the desktop background and select "NVidia Control Panel". In the control panel. Make sure you are in Advanced Settings and not Standard Setting in the toolbar. In the control panel, under the "Display" twistie in the left-hand pane select "Adjust desktop color settings". Click on the appropriate display. Just above the test image is the coloer channel selector. It defaults to all channels. Click on it and select "blue". then use the Gamma and or brightness sliders to adjust to the desired amount of blue. Click the "Apply" button in the lower right corner of the window (you may need to scroll down or enlarge the window to see it.)

 

There's nothing above the test image. No color channel selector.

 

OK, what drivers are you using? Are you using stock drivers, the "recent" driver from Gateway support web site, or one of the laptopvideo2go drivers? Or Dox or XFastest driver? If you are using something from Gateway, then I think you need a newer driver from laptopvideo2go. If you are using a recent laptopvideo2go driver or Dox or XFastest, then I think maybe you need to install NVidia System Tools, but I thought it was just a driver thing.

Follow the instructions here-> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=265740 if you need to install new drivers.

 

Bleh, for some reason I was in Standard mode and not advanced. It's the little stupid things that get me every time. XP I'm adjusting it now thanks.

 

Once you have the driver and Nvidia system tools installed, this is what you are looking for:



Good luck

 

Can't get it right. XP

I've got a monitor with correctly set colors I'm using as a dual and the main display on the laptop is acting crazy.
For one I'm using two test to test the color. 1 my web design and 2 the background desktop which is the blue green haze that comes with Vista as an option. When I reduce the blue the background desktop doesn't lose enough blue before the web design loses way too much blue. I've tried raising the green but the same thing happens. The web designs becomes too green and the background doesn't get green enough.

 

Reducing red can help increase blue. But I think you need some screen calibration software. Like http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/color_calibration_software/

 

Actually, try this one. I just tried it and liked the results I got
http://software.intel.com/sites/coo...ee_color_calibration_utility_for_your_monitor

 

How do you use that for only adjusting one monitor at a time. Right now it affects both.

 

Sorry man. I only got one screen. Google Free screen calibration software and try some of them out. You may find that you need one of the commercial screen calibrators. I also found an article on about.com on screen calibration that might help.

 

it will affect both, can i guess you have a auo brand display? most common with to much blue is usually from auo.

 

http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10457

 

This is why CRTs still rule in the DTP industry, LCD gamma and accuracy is not quite ready for prime time. I would adjust grey scale screen for best white and blacks, then bring in your color to where it looks right for you. Do this on the internal monitor or just the external as we have only single GPU card. Use a screen calibrator if you can afford one or bring your files to a work station at work?

Cheers

 

Oddly enough, if you adjust via the NVidia control panel, you can adjust for each display seperately. So you'd need a calibration utility that walks you through adjusting red, green, blue and greyscale independantly. You can find DVDs that do this in the AV section at Best Buy and other stores. A friend of mine paid $90 for one. I've borrowed it, and it works great for TVs. I'm not sure how it would work through your laptop DVD player, so I don't know that I'd pay a lot of $$ just for my laptop unless I knew it would work.

 

Cool! I just sold my Sony 17" CRT to to a bud who's wife is a P.S./ wedding photographer. I have not used it on my 8800; on my 7900 Dell operation was as the OP's in mirror mode but not sure using separate dual monitor mode, my bad.