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    Colors washed out on dv6t

    Discussion in 'HP' started by siryak, Oct 30, 2009.

  1. siryak

    siryak Notebook Guru

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    Ok I just got my new dv6t today and the colors are horribly washed out. There is no such thing as black on this thing. Light grey more like. I have tried fiddling with the very few setting in the Intel control panel and that thing is totally useless. Is there any program out there that might give me better control over my settings. I think it mainly just needs the gamma turned down, but I can't turn it down low enough using the intel control panel or windows gamma settings.
     
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  2. Th3_uN1Qu3

    Th3_uN1Qu3 Notebook Deity

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    It has nothing to do with the gamma, it has to do with the backlight. HP cranks the brightness way too high, and the displays' backlights bleed like hell. Fn+F7 should fix your problem. ;)

    Also, you have to know, there's no such thing as pure black on a LCD display. Keep the brightness as low as you can and it'll be a darker shade of gray, but you can't get black no matter what you do.
     
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