Bad colours on HP nw9440

Hi guys,

The other thread has been closed however still didn't get a solution to the problem with my HP nw9440 workstation notebook.

Running xp & native res of 1920 x 1200, the colours are totally off and way too much blue, as well as washed out white making the contrast pretty bad.

I was going to buy a hardware calibrator but think it would be a waste of money if it didn't fix the problem.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, i dont know if this type of thing is covered under warranty but the screen is pretty bad compared to my mates Dell Precision M90 (not as fuzzy and way better colours, as with my 24" dell).

Thanks in advance.

 

If your colors are too blue, then either your Hue setting is off or a Color Channel isn't set right - go into your GPU's admin panel (right click on the desktop, then Control Panel for your installed GPU). Check all color settings, especially any that are manually controlled, as it's probably a slider that's set wrong. If you just have Color Channel Settings and a single Gamma slider, then you need to zero all the color settings and adjust the Gamma to proper color, either as an individual color channel or all channels at once.

 

i've tried that and last time even loaded on adobe gamma to do the setup/calibration. however the notebook isn't like a normal PC LCD monitor where i can crank the brightness up then adjust the contrast back to see all the grey scale shades (or visa versa can't remember).

I'd like to hear from someone with one particularly to see if they've found a colour profile i can load as it's a known problem that the colours are junk. there is also the DVI problem running an external monitor (fan goes at crazy speeds and shuts down the pc) so i may try and complain to see if they will replace it with a new one.

 

This is a pretty old notebook. Was the screen originally like this? If it wasn't, then try to acertain why it became so. Did a driver update cause it? If not, then you should get them to replace the screen. If the screen was originally this bad, then there is no case here because the issue wasn't raised when you first purchased it.

 

^ Thanks for the reply. It's always been bad, and it hasn't degraded. I know it's an old model but was purchased 'new' from Graysonline with a 3yr warranty.

The screen was replaced once initially due to bad backlight bleeding coming from the bottom of the screen, which i found unacceptable, and HP were great about that and replaced it. Just wondering how you'd try and explain it to the support call centre. To give you an example the yellows are definitely not yellow and more like mustard/orange. This is quite annoying for graphics work and Cad, as it's not even close. The display notebooks in Harvey Horman look better and this is meant to be a high end workstation.

I noticed it with vista that there was a particularly bad contrast with the dialogue boxes separating the white to the surrounding colours.

Any other ideas? I know a spyder2 express would be a waste if i can't calibrate it my self with Adobe Gamma.

Cheers,