Vaio Z owners test for me - blue links or purple

Hello all,

If you have a Sony Vaio Z series anywhere from Core2Duo to i7 then please do this test for me and let me know your findings. It will take about 5 seconds.

Go to google.com in any browser.

type in something that you have never searched(so there wont be "visited purple links" and tell me which color links your screen shows

Blue
like shown here
http://oisn.com/blue-vaio-z.png

OR

Purple
like shown here
http://oisn.com/purple-vaio-z.png


Thank you so much for your time - I have been going back and forth with Sony and repair and exchanged Z laptops for different ones and I always end up with purple links(no, not the purple visited links) just purple no matter what.

Laptops have had EVERYTHING changed in them. New installs of win7 pro and even a different vaio z and same issue.

First Vaio Z: VGN Z820G/B
Replacement Vaio Z: VPC Z12GGX/X

Thanks again,
Mo

 

Personalization > Window color and appearance > Open Classic > Advanced settings > Hyper link in the drop down and change the color.
OR go to your browsers tools and edit it there. For Opera its Settings > Preferences > Web pages.

 

No.

The color purple wont budge.
Only way to change it is to override the link color in ie but then the link color is same color I choose for every site i go to.

I got excited for a minute when I saw your response. I hadnt tried that but it didnt even change the links in google. I made them red and the change didnt take effect.

Any other ideas?

 

No Idea.

On my Z11 with FHD Panel and Win7 all links are listed blue.

Maybe the lcd panel is faulty?
Is this a garanty repair?

 

The First Vaio Z: VGN Z820G/B was repaired onsite 2x and offsite 2x.
Everything was changed: LCD screen, motherboard, cooling fan, HD, keyboard. In the end, for all intents and purposes, it was totally gutted to be a different laptop.

THEN they finally gave up and sent me the Replacement Vaio Z: VPC Z12GGX/X
Got it Tues, opened it up and SAME thing. Purple links instead of blue.

Its driving me crazy that they cannot get it to blue, the way it appears to be on everyone else's Vaio Z.

When I connect the Z to an external monitor - ITS the same. Doesnt that mean there is a problem with the way the video card/chip "rendering" the color(s)? Well the color blue anyways.

Although, if you type a word like wall paper in google search box in ie the two LL's in the word wall paper have green glow around them??

What gives? lol
Thanks Val

M

 

Is it only a problem with Google or do all links on all sites appear purple? For instance, what colour are the links on this site?

 

It is pretty impressive that sony replaced the laptop for free (?) due to the mentioned issue.

z1290X, FHD shows the purple links.

personally, I wouldn't bother what kinda color it shows as long as it shows sth.

 

Why dont you try an external screen to check if this is a software issue...?

 

All links that should be a softer bluer blue are dark purple.

Trust me, if it didnt cut in your eyes and make you turn away from screen I would deal with it.

I agree. It is impressive. The customer service has been great. The repair / issue has been ongoing for 6 months.

Sony (onsite) repair people have agreed that there is something wrong.

The latter part of your comment. I would if it wasnt so straining on the eyes. I actually love this laptop. Fast and light but hard to look at for more than a few minutes.

Yes, thought of that. I connected to an external monitor. Same thing, purple links. Glowingly purple.

Software issue?
Driver issue?

Whatever you come up with I am all ears.

FYI- Two Vaio Z's that have had fresh Win7pro installed have not changed this issue.

Many drivers, not all, but many. I heard that if you roll back to an older driver??


Thanks again.... anxiously await more ideas or suggestions?

M

 

I noticed that in Color Management that the Display is a "Generic PnP Monitor - NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M"

Is there something BETTER than "generic"??

Are there display "profiles" on the web that I could try one by one to get, at the very least, the links to change to... well, anything?

At this point that would be progress.

Thanks

M

 

Maybe if you've been trying all this in Speed mode, try it in Stamina mode?

 

Yep. Tried that.

One person has confirmed purple links instead of blue on their Z series. Others have said they see blue.

There is something wacky about this.


I am guessing there is something REAL specific in fixing this?

 

Try to set a different windows theme. There are blue ones e.g. "Aero Design Windows 7" are the title bars and task bars blue then? Are only your links glowing purple?

If there is no real blue on your machine, switch to stamina mode and change the color settings in intel hd graphics panel. Maybe this helps.

 

Is it just hyperlinks or is it anything in that shade of blue? For instance, if you took a screenshot of Google search results on a PC that doesn't have the problem and looked at the screenshot on your Z, would the links appear to be purple or blue?

 

It seems to be just hyperlinks.


I had taken a screen shot of the Vaio Z with the purple links.
Looked at image and it was in fact purple like the browser ON THE VAIO Z



BUT ON AN OLDER VAIO (differnt model)...
I then viewed the image on my other older Vaio and just like its browser with blue links the image with purple links ALSO looked blue on that computer.

Just the BLUE hyperlinks is the issue here.
Actually, if you type in wall paper in google search box there is a glow around the LL's in wallstreet.

When I screen capture that and view it on other vaio the green is NOT there.



I dont know too much about this but it would seem that the Vaio Z is faulty in rendering the color blue or that part of the spectrum or inverter is bad.

Could the inverter be bad on 3 different motherboards? Actually where is the inverter? (if in screen we have done through a total of 3 screens)

 

Your explanation of your last test was confusing. Why I got was

Screenshot off the Vaio Z demonstrates purple links on other machines (I assume that is how you generated your demo image)

Screenshot off another machine viewed on the Vaio Z demonstrates blue links.

If that's the case, it doesn't sound like a problem with the hardware as your laptop is perfectly capable of rendering the needed shade of blue. Additionally, you say that your laptop can show blue in non-browser related instances. This reaffirms that its probably not a hardware issue.

What browser is giving you these issues, and have you tried another browser?

 

I am sorry. It did seem confusing the way I wrote.

Let me try again.


Graphic with purple links will show purple on Vaio Z in question AND if you connect to external monitor.

BUT the SAME graphic opened up on other vaio(not a Z and older) of mine shows it as blue * (see asterisk).

All browsers have same issue.



(* keep in mind, I had to make the graphic purple so it would show purple you guys) The screen capture of the vaio Z will not show purple on older Vaio.

Hope this helps.... helps you guys help me

On a serious note, whoever can help resolve this, either by figuring out what it is or logging in remotely and fixing it - I would gladly pay. Its very hard to use but it is an EXCELLENT piece of machinery.

 

Mine are blue.

Try this calibrated profile for VPC Z FullHD. If it helps, you can "thank" me later...I'm quite short of money right now Photography and travelling while studying are expensive hobbies

 

Ah... dude. I'm also amazed they gave you a new machine for this reason. My Z makes all the blue links look purple. Dig through the threads and you'll see my complaint about the "harsh blues" on the Z. Now that I've used my Z for months, my brain has learn to interpret the purples as blue. You get used to it.

 

Couple comments here.

1.) Calibrate your screen
2.) Your inverter isn't bad because there is no inverter
3.) Who cares? Am I reading you are happy with the colors except hyperlinks are purple instead of blue? Really??

 

Dear mobenzo,

I dug a bit deeper and here I have a solution for your problem.

1. Install firefox browser
2. install NoSquint Addon (also very useful to resize webpages globally or individually, so your eyes wont strain anymore when browsing - simply "no squint" anymore)
3. go to nosquint's global settings (rightclick on the bottom right corner in firefox or via menu item "Addons-NoSquint-Settings")
4. Go to colors tab and check unvisited links:



5. With the box at the right you can select your desired color you want for links, e.g.

Gold


How about red?


Or green?



Dont like these so much? Fortunately, you can also select hundreds of blue color tones.

No calibration needed, never pain in the a** with bad colors.

Enjoy your Z, it should be even more precious to you since you got this great model swap from sony.

Please report back your happyness and PM me concerning my paycheck.

Cheers,

pyr0

 

As noted in one of the first posts, you can do this directly in IE's settings. You can also do it directly in Opera's settings... in fact I'd be surprised if every browser didn't have this built in directly. (sorry I'm just not a big fan of Firefox and find it laughable that they didn't include this sort of function in their browser and you have to rely on 3rd party extensions)

Edit: Firfox does actually have color options built directly into its settings, so no real need to install no squint.

 

Interestingly your blue screen shot can look purple on my Z if I put my head at the level of the screen. Look down, however from the normal position of a laptop being a few inches below eye level, things appear blue.

That being said, I don't get any color fluctuation on the links of actual webpages; those look blue regardless. It could be that your blue screen shot has color artifacts in it from jpeg compression, or it could be that the blue you are using actually does have a bit of purple in it, and maybe selecting a truer blue would fix your issue.

 

Ok. Because I really appreciate all the help and effort I wanted to respond to everyone.

Here goes...

1. Did that.
2. Thank you. I wasnt aware.
3. Trust me, I know what I have here They exchanged a core2duo for i7. I know, its just hard to look at screen for long periods of time. A Mercedes that doesnt run well.

I have been playing with the fonts and colors and links and visited links. I can change it to the blue I like when I am searching in google. But then I click on link to website and the sites dont load their colors(obviously, is there a way around that) AND the sites images dont load. You sites with no css from that website.

If you can find a way for me to change the links. (which I can do) AND let me allow the sites to load their images OR let google use my blue and then all other sites use their own css code?

Does that even make sense?

Yes, as noted above. Been playing with that for a while. Although never tried FF with squint. I will see.

Yeah, its purple at all angles when I view. Just different purples. Dark to fluorescent.

Artifacts from jpg compression for links in google results? I dont understand.


Selecting a truer as mentioned above?


Thanks again everyone.