DELL ULTRASHARP 2007WFP Brightness & Contrast

sjp1966 · 12 Dec 2006 at 21:03

I am hoping someone can help me.

I bought one of these monitors recently and i cannot for the life of me get a nice balance of contrast and brightness. It either looks too bright or too dull.

I have tried auto adjust and fine tuning of both brightness and contrast but nothign will help.

I did try going through the display setup of the Nvidia card but that too has not given ideal settings.

fish99 · 12 Dec 2006 at 21:31

Are you using the DVI because if you do settings like contrast, sharpness and auto-adjust are unavailable (and unnecessary). I use mine through DVI on 45 brightness when gaming or watching films, and I turn the brightness down to 30-35 when using the web or applications. I also use my 360 connected to it through VGA with brightness on 45.

You should use the DVI.

sjp1966 · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:02

Sorry, no mine is using a VGA connection, the cable i have doesnt seem to fit the DVI connection at the graphics card end

fish99 · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:07

Try it again, and check it's the right way up. The DVI cable that comes with the monitor should fit all video cards as far as I'm aware. It's a little fiddly to get it connected though.

fobose · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:24

I have two of these, one on a DVI connection and the other on VGA, on the DVI I have the brightness set to 30 (no contrast option), on the VGA I have brightness to 30 and contrast to 50 and I keep my monitor on these settings all the time.

sjp1966 · 15 Dec 2006 at 08:01

Cheers guys ill try these settings (and cable) out.

sjp1966 · 16 Dec 2006 at 13:22

OK, ive managed to connect the DVI cable, but i cannot get any picture, the screen says it is going into sleep mode as there is no signal from the computer. do i need to enable this anywhere?

saintly · 16 Dec 2006 at 21:42

should come up automatically, but have you tried pressing the input selector key until you get to 2?

fish99 · 16 Dec 2006 at 23:53

Mine doesn't auto switch inputs if you've been using it in another mode. So for instance, after using my 360 through VGA, I have to manually switch back to DVI. I guess that's what's happening here.

Would be nice if it did auto switch though.

sjp1966 · 17 Dec 2006 at 09:02

yes, ive tried manually pressing the button, i assume that there is an issue with the DVI connection on the graphics card, as soon as it gets to "2" it tells me its entering power save mode. I have also tried S video and get the same thing.

additionally if i go into the OSD > input source and scan for sources, only the VGA shows.

sjp1966 · 17 Dec 2006 at 09:23

OK, Solved it. I powered the machine off, removed the graphics card, air dusted all the crap and dust away from the fan and re-seated. plugged in the DVI and powered on, and it worked.

Last night i had tried powering the machine down and then on again, but i had left the VGA in as well, so i basically had the VGA and the DVI connected, i assume there was not enough power for both, i left the VGA unplugged this time and hey presto.

thanks for your help guys, i just need to get the contrast etc right so i am going to go back and look at your settings that you have advise me of.

fish99 · 17 Dec 2006 at 13:00

If you had both VGA and DVI connected, the video card would only be sending a signal to one, unless you manually enable dual monitor in your video card control panel, so that's why you weren't getting a picture. You just needed to do was disconnect the VGA lead.

Anyway, back to brightness, try it on 45-50 and see how that looks.

sjp1966 · 18 Dec 2006 at 06:05

Oh well, we live and learn

, ok a happy medium for me was 43 for brightness, and it looks pretty good now, thanks again for you all help everyone