The view on my monitor is nice and at first you think nothing is wrong, but when I go to different sites, or my friends post pictures I can sometimes not see them because they come out very very dark. Or, when I am on another computer the pictures that look blackened out on my screen look clear and nice on the other. I have searched through 'My computer' and 'control panel' without much luck. Does anyone know how I can change this?? Or what could be wrong??
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1- most of monitors have a setting or menu button on them where you can change contrast, colour density or any other settings.\n\n2- some graphic cards has the setting panel as well. in order to find out if your graphic card has this function, go to control panel, double click on Display, click on setting tab, click on advance button. you will see a new window with some tabs, one of them should be your graphic card, for example my graphic card is Intel Extreme, so I have a tab with Intel Extreme name. when you click on it, you will have a panel to control contrast of your monitor.
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ur monitor might be out dated. I had a ol packard bell monitor that took 30 min to warm up and then it was blurry and all messed up becasue of it's old age.
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Your monitor doesn't support a higher resolution than that. You need to get a monitor that supports the resolution you want. Windows will lock out modes that your monitor can't display even if your video card is capable.
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The monitor is probably not the problem. Find out what video card you actually have, (on board or PCI) and install the correct driver.  The actual monitor has very little effect on how the visual effects render.
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Try adjusting your display settings in Control Panel.
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No. definitely not normal. Your cable attached to your pc is maybe loose. Or if it's attached to AGP card, The card is not seated properly. Or try reinstalling the viewsonic drivers.
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This may have to do with Windows adjusting the display settings to either better work with your monitor refresh settings or display adapter card.\nUpdate the driver on your display adapter card.  Check out what its settings are at:\nright click the desktop and go to properties>settings> advanced> adapter\nCheck the monitor settings as well.
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If the colors look weird, then your drivers are probably fried.  If it's the size  you're concerned about, then change the screen resolution.
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It's probably a loose connection between your monitor (screen) and you're computer. Check the cables that run from your monitor to your computer and make sure they're not loose.
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You need a new monitor. Plus that is a fire hazard if it has a short in it. \nIf you have set your resolution settings and it didn't work, did you try setting the specs on the monitor itself.\nFind a different monitor and see if you still have the problem, if you do, its beyond your monitor.\nHowever like  i said before replace it before it burns your house down.
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Black--or blank ?  \n\nIf it's black, then It sounds as if the power saver function might be on the fritz.\nUsually, striking a key or wiggling the mouse brings the last image on the screen back up.  Does the monitor have a small light on the front that is green when the screen is active? If that light turns yellow when the screen goes black, that tells you that the power saver function is on.  \n\nIf it's blank [not black], then I don't know what to tell you.  Call tech support and try not to lose your temper with the overseas representatives.
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You can change the contrast and other settings in your display settings. There should be a advanced button located in that option.
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If you have it set to the highest level of brightness on the monitor and it still isn't bright enough you likely have a failing monitor. I have had the same problem before but there wasn't anything I could do. You can also see if there is a reset option but I don't think it will help.
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Your resolution has been changed.\n\nGo to Control Panel, Display, Settings and set it for 1280 X 1024 and 32 bit color.\n\nGood Luck
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could be one of two things:\n\n- software problems: fix this first\ncheck for driver updates for both your video (graphics) card and your monitor. install the updates. if there aren't any updates then reinstall the lastest version of the drivers for both.\n\n- hardware problem\neither the monitor or the video card is busted. whichever one has a prob, it will stop working completely eventually. you're looking at repair or replace as your options here.\n\n\na 3rd, but less likely, culprit is the actual video settings. someone may have changed those by mistake so that the colours looked all messed up.
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You may be trying to set the res higher than your monitor is capable of handling. But it's probably a driver issue. Uninstall and reinstall the driver from your device driver screen.
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If your screen showed up white on your laptop then it's not the backlight.  Your screen would be very dark and pretty much impossible to read without a backlight.  Since you tried another monitor and had the same result, or at least that's how I understand it, it sounds like it's a graphics issue.  It's possible that the shock of slamming the lid shut has caused damage to your motherboard.\n\nIf in fact you could see everything when you used a monitor, you very well could have broken a contact on your motherboard, broken a cable, or something entirely more fun than either of these.  You could break out the multimeter and check contacts, but that may prove to be quite tedious.  It seems like your problem is directly linked to the connection of the LCD.  Poke around a bit and see if a ribbon cable isn't seated properly or something else.  I'm not familiar with Dell's method of routing the video signal from the mobo to the screen.  Good luck.