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   ShepŠ to DaveJohnson12@nomail.   
   Re: How do I adjust monitor color in Win   
   07 May 05 01:13:58   
   
   XPost: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell, microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion,   
   alt.windows95   
   From: nospam@nospam.com   
      
   On Fri, 06 May 2005 23:36:11 GMT If I have seen farther it is because   
   I have stood on the shoulder of giants  DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote :   
      
   >On Fri, 06 May 2005 23:47:51 +0100, ShepŠ  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Fri, 06 May 2005 22:43:31 GMT If I have seen farther it is because   
   >>I have stood on the shoulder of giants  DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote :   
   >>   
   >>>On Fri, 06 May 2005 06:15:49 -0700, Curious  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Fri, 06 May 2005 10:03:37 GMT, DaveJohnson12@nomail. wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>I'm using Windows 95b. There is a way to make the color more red or   
   whatever you want.  I   
   >>>>>remember there is a way to save more than one setting. There is no   
   adjusment on the   
   >>>>>monitor itself to do this. The monitor is an HP mx705. It's a Dell PC. I   
   forgot how to   
   >>>>>make these adjustments and had no luck with Google.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>What are the control buttons on the front of the monitor for?  How   
   >>>>about looking into Control Panel, Display, and the graphics card   
   >>>>controls?   
   >>>   
   >>>I don't see anything in the Display Properties. The controls on the front   
   of the monitor   
   >>>are for brightness, contrast,  moire, degauss and adjusting the shape of   
   the picture like   
   >>>pincushion, trapezoid, etc. There's also something called color   
   temperature. I changed it   
   >>>from 9300 to 6500 and it makes a big difference but the color still doesn't   
   look right.   
   >>>It's still washed out. The colors are very dull. Not rich at all. I might   
   return this   
   >>>monitor and get an LCD since all CRTs that I can find are crap. It will be   
   worth the 15%   
   >>>restocking charge. Have you ever used software that is supposed to   
   calibrate your monitor?   
   >>>I don't know anything about them or even what they do. I'll have to read   
   about it. Thanks.   
   >>   
   >>Look for drivers for your Video card.They may also include colour   
   >>correction Software.   
   >   
   >I tried and the ones I found were the STB drivers and the NVidia reference   
   drivers. I   
   >think the NVidia reference drivers I used with my old hard disk had this   
   color adjustment   
   >feature. The ones I downloaded from the NVidia site more recently are   
   different and don't   
   >work properly. The drivers I'm using are the Dell STB drivers with no ability   
   to adjust   
   >the color.   
      
   No probs.You can use,   
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   Rivatuner   
      
      
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   >>which will tell you all you need to know about your system,   
   >   
   >How would this software help? Thank you.   
      
   It was in case you didn't know what exact card you had in the system   
   :)   
      
   >>http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/diag.html   
   >>   
   >>HTH :)   
      
      
      
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