Forced into Vista already having problems... Vista color managementdoesn't like my LCD

"RMZ" <> wrote in message
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> On Dec 30, 9:06 pm, "DP" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>> "RMZ" <Jeremy.De...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:7671290b-dc1f-4659-af1b-...
>>
>> > So I bought a Gateway E2140 Pentium Dual Core Desktop this past
>> > weekend and before even turning it on I popped in a new PCI-E GeForce
>> > 7600 GS graphics card (on board video always disapoints). So I boot up
>> > and hit nVidia's website and download and install the latest Vista 32-
>> > bit Forceware drivers, download all recommended Vista Home Premium
>> > updates through the Microsoft update utility and reboot.
>>
>> I'm not saying this to dis you or berate you, but just to have a
>> conversation and see what other folks think.
>> Pretty ballsy to open a computer before you even turn it on, yes? I mean,
>> wouldn't you want to make sure the thing works as sold to you before you
>> go
>> messing with it?
>> What if the motherboard had been fried before you even got the thing,
>> would
>> you be able to prove that to your vendor? I'm just using the motherboard
>> as
>> an example of one of any number of things that could be wrong with a
>> "new"
>> computer.
>
> Good points, but the chance of a new computer from a major vendor
> having motherboard fault would be pretty rare I would think.... Anyone
> know off hand the statistics on that? Regardless it is a good point
> and well taken, but the motherboard in this case seems to be fine. I
> guess to prove this I could take the card out and switch back on the
> motherbords Intel graphics, but if that doesn't solve the problem what
> does that tell me? It doesn't mean the motherboard is bad, again.. the
> system boots at proper brightness and noticably dims at the same point
> after a dialog box quickly opens and then vanishes before I can read
> it (it's not an error best I can tell). It appears there is a process
> of some sort that kicks in and causes this effect.


Well, as I said in my original post, "I'm just using the motherboard as
> an example of one of any number of things that could be wrong with a 'new'
> computer."
I'm sure people could tell you lots of horror stories of things that arrived
DOA with a new computer. Bad monitors, memory chips, drives etc.
I would just want to test the thing out of the box before making any
changes. However, you made it through the experience with no problem. So
congratulations.






>

"RMZ" <> wrote in message
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> So, in the BIOS setting I have changed it from "Auto" to PCI-E, I have
> also disabled power management on the PCI-E port and still no luck
> when Windows Vista starts... Welcome screen appears with proper
> brightness color, then my Vista desktop appears and after a few
> seconds the screen noticeably dims. This is obviously some background
> process/service kicking in and forcing a change (hince my suspicion of
> Vista Color Management).
>
> Why can't I just disable color management? Is there a process/service
> I can manually force to shut down to disable color management, that
> should solve it, since it's not working for me.

It's not Vista. It's the nVidia drivers. Open your nVidia control panel.
Display. Adjust desktop color settings. Adjust brightness, contrast, and
gamma to your preferences.

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