Vista displaying some greys as a peachy cream colour

Hi Guys!

Not sure if this is the right place to put this post, but I've got a couple of really weird problems. I got a new laptop (Asus X59GL if it matters) with Vista Premium OS. Problem is that, when I am at home, it displays some greys on the screen as a peachy cream colour. It's not due to the light in the room, as I've taken it to other rooms and outside and it's still the same. What's even more puzzling is that it doesn't always have this problem; when I took it to someone to check it out, the greys showed as normal! (Just like that annoying rattle in a car that disappears when you take it to a garage!)

The other problem that I am frequently getting is that when I try to open a new webpage, I often get a notice saying that the network connection was interrupted and the page can't be displayed, or it opens the page as a blank. This happens both when I am using wireless or a wired connection.

Any ideas?

 

The colours - unless its a faulty connection - it may be that the screen isn't calibrated correctly.

The connection - any Asus utilities that you use to connect? Otherwise, try a driver update.

 

Hey, try running this test http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ and see what happens, do you have the model with the ATI 3470 or the Nvidia 8200? sometimes in the control panel there is an option for changing the colour settings;
ATI:

NVidia:


if this persists, consider calling the company you bought it from, just fiddle with the settings until something good happens. you could also post a photo for us.

Tom.

 

Hi Tom,

Great to see you again and as usual...wonderful advice I appear to have an NVIDIA driver and eventually found where I could adjust it. I played around with it and managed to get the greys showing the right colour, but I have a puce/pink colour in my logo and to get that right, it made all the other images display too red, so I was going to settle for that as all the other colours were ok.

However, when I opened my laptop this morning, it was back to the same problem. So I went back to the NVIDIA control panel and as soon as I touched the brightness control, the greys came back. I used the troubleshooter and it told me that my device was working and that I had the latest update. I restarted it to rest it and it had gone back to the peachy cream.

I tried to attach some before and after images, but both images looked the same to me. I thought I had deleted them, but the thumbnails still seems to be there, so see what you think.

Looking forward to your thoughts, but it seems like I need to contact the supplier. Should I tell him that I need a new driver?

 

Screenshots won't hlep if its the sceen...

Screenshots only help if the actual output is "false".

A camera will help though.

 

there is a registry hack to allow the desktop colour settings to stay after a reboot;
In the run/search box type regedit and press enter.

When it comes up goto:

HKEY_Local_Machine

then goto:

Software

Then goto:

NVidia Corporation

Now goto Global then click on NVTweak

You will see a key called DisableApplyColorsAtStartup if it is set to 0 set it to 1.

This will make whatever you set your desktop colour settings (including DV) to stick after a reboot. If it was already 1 and not sticking try changing it to 0.

 

DetlevCM, I've only just got my first digital camera and need to work out how to use it properly. If I need to work out how to upload pictures from it now, I'll have a go. Is it necessary to do that now?

Ok, Tinselworm, done that, changed it from 0 to 1, but after rebooting I got all excited thinking that it had worked, and then the screen became brighter and undid the change and it was back to peaches and cream.

So I decided to try to decipher what the lagom thing was all about. In the contrast test, only the grey to white range was calibrated throughout, all the other colours stopped short between 22 and 28. The sharpness was too high, but I can't adjust that. And I couldn't adjust the gamma calibration to get the 48% setting correct; if the grey was right the others were all wrong and vice-versa. The other tests seemed to be ok.

 

The camera is only needed if you think its hardware related.

I you can recalibrate it, it possibly won't be necessary.

 

is the Nvidia control panel set in the startup to start automagically?

 

The Nvidia Compatible Windows Vista Display driver is, but the Nvidia Media Center Library isn't.

PS. I've just changed it so they both are, and restarted and the same problem exists.

 

you could try this http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/Monitor-Calibration-Wizard.shtml or try a complete uninstall of the video drivers, then install new ones from ASUS or Nvidia (try both)

 

Thanks for all your help guys. Just to let you know...I contacted Asus and my supplier and eventually ended up restoring my laptop and all the drivers and - it's early days yet, but it seems to have done the trick. Better than losing it for 7-10 days for Asus to do the same thing for me