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kyomi:
So I just got a Viewsonic VX2703mh-LED since my old Viewsonic VX2835wm does not want to switch to HDMI/DVI anymore.

What I've tried on the old monitor to get it working again:
 - Different cable (both are HDMI on one end and DVI on the other)
 - Different port on the graphics card (nvidia gtx 590, DVI only)
 
Normally it would just turn on and then switch to HDMI/DVI in the top right.. now it just says HDMI and will never pick up the signal no matter how many times I unplug the power and plug it back in (worked for awhile) or unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in (worked for a week).


Now for the new monitor issue.. this thing is EXTREMELY EYE-BLINDING BRIGHT. I've tried:

 - Messing with the contrast/brightness = Makes the picture darker but still looks cloudy
 - Messing with color temperature = Still looks cloudy
 - Changed the cable to DVI (originally HDMI) = Looks better but now I can't get the brightness down and it looks way too white and washed out compared to last monitor
 - Installing the "driver" which was just a color profile and restarting

I've tried the color calibration in Windows and the at lagnom.nl/lcd-test which don't change the look at the end. I think it's the backlight being too bright, but I can't find any options to lower it.

Any suggestions on getting the old one working again or fixing the new one are welcome.


Edit: If I use the "sRGB" on the On-Screen Display of the monitor under "Color settings" it looks fine but very dark and there isn't a way to make it any brighter because it disables the Contrast/brightness control.

mtmerrick:
try going through the hardware controls on the monitor (not your computer's software) and changing settings. there should be a brightness settings and an auto-adjust, and many have preset modes you can try as well.

kyomi:
That's what I have been doing, going through the monitor controls. The auto-adjust is greyed out no matter what and if I choose the sRGB which looks the best but a bit dark.. it greys out the Contrast/brightness.. like it's mocking me.. -_-

mtmerrick:
normally there's a user control or custom setup you can choose. or you can just go to "normal" or default or what have you, and modify that.

kyomi:
I don't have the knowledge to know what to modify in the custom setup to make it look right. I'd need something that has pictures and is like "If it looks like x, adjust y this way". It's annoying because every time I think I have something right, I'll browse somewhere on the hard drive or open a program and notice some thing that looks too bright/dull compared to what it was. Maybe I just need to get used to this, my old monitor was an LCD and this is an LED. The old one was 1920x1200 but this won't go any higher then 1920x1080 and using the HDMI makes it use TV resolutions instead of PC resolutions even though it is a PC monitor.

For example, what I have right now. It looks right and then I'll see the task bar and the purple doesn't look right, like it's not dark enough and the white is extremely white.

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