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May 7th 07, 10:19 PM
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Monitor Brightness
I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust
brightness on all movies but some of them you can't. Is there some way to boost my brightness? 
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May 8th 07, 02:22 AM
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What Video Card or chip and Monitor do you have? If it's ATI or NVidia
the latest drivers have adjustments for brightness. "JCO" wrote in message news:MJM%h.2025$vX4.185@trnddc05... I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust brightness on all movies but some of them you can't. Is there some way to boost my brightness?
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May 8th 07, 07:06 PM
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Hello,
Videos are shown in overlay. You may be adjusting brightness settings in the video card controls in Desktop mode. Try switching to overlay mode and adjusting the brightness from there. When you do so, the effect may not be apparent until you play a video clip. Alternatively, you can lower the acceleration in Windows Media Player Tools Options Performance Video Acceleration and see if it helps. (keep lowering to the most left notch) -- Singapore Website Design http://www.bootstrike.com/Webdesign/ Singapore Web Hosting http://www.bootstrike.com/WinXP/faq.html Windows XP FAQ "JCO" wrote in message news:MJM%h.2025$vX4.185@trnddc05... I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust brightness on all movies but some of them you can't. Is there some way to boost my brightness?
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May 9th 07, 02:23 AM
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Chipset: nVida (not sure what else you want here)
Monitor is Sceptre (sort of old). It's not a flat screen. nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics Card. I usually don't run very many items in the system tray. I'm real good about getting that junk out of the HKLM-Run. No use running something 100% of the time when you may only use it 1% of the time. "Rich Barry" wrote in message ... What Video Card or chip and Monitor do you have? If it's ATI or NVidia the latest drivers have adjustments for brightness. "JCO" wrote in message news:MJM%h.2025$vX4.185@trnddc05... I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust brightness on all movies but some of them you can't. Is there some way to boost my brightness?
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May 9th 07, 03:51 AM
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JCO wrote
I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust brightness on all movies but some of them you can't. Is there some way to boost my brightness? Rich Barry wrote What Video Card or chip and Monitor do you have? If it's ATI or NVidia the latest drivers have adjustments for brightness. JCO wrote: Chipset: nVida (not sure what else you want here) Monitor is Sceptre (sort of old). It's not a flat screen. nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics Card. I usually don't run very many items in the system tray. I'm real good about getting that junk out of the HKLM-Run. No use running something 100% of the time when you may only use it 1% of the time. The answer was in the same post... Since you have an NVidia card - visit Nvidia.com and get the latest unified driver, install it, and learn to utilize it. Also - Sceptre, CRT monitor... Could be it is just going out. However - since you mention that it is mostly movies that are dark, the adjustments in the video card drivers along with adjustments in whatever application you are using to play them should help. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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May 9th 07, 04:45 PM
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There are no updates for the GeForce 6100.
The fact that I remove unwanted programs from running in the system tray should be irrelevant. You should be able to access everything from the control panel, if necessary. I will keep looking... and post an update if I can figure it out. "Shenan Stanley" wrote in message ... JCO wrote I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust brightness on all movies but some of them you can't. Is there some way to boost my brightness? Rich Barry wrote What Video Card or chip and Monitor do you have? If it's ATI or NVidia the latest drivers have adjustments for brightness. JCO wrote: Chipset: nVida (not sure what else you want here) Monitor is Sceptre (sort of old). It's not a flat screen. nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics Card. I usually don't run very many items in the system tray. I'm real good about getting that junk out of the HKLM-Run. No use running something 100% of the time when you may only use it 1% of the time. The answer was in the same post... Since you have an NVidia card - visit Nvidia.com and get the latest unified driver, install it, and learn to utilize it. Also - Sceptre, CRT monitor... Could be it is just going out. However - since you mention that it is mostly movies that are dark, the adjustments in the video card drivers along with adjustments in whatever application you are using to play them should help. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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May 9th 07, 10:35 PM
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JCO wrote:
I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust brightness on all movies but some of them you can't. Is there some way to boost my brightness? Rich Barry wrote: What Video Card or chip and Monitor do you have? If it's ATI or NVidia the latest drivers have adjustments for brightness. JCO wrote: Chipset: nVida (not sure what else you want here) Monitor is Sceptre (sort of old). It's not a flat screen. nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics Card. I usually don't run very many items in the system tray. I'm real good about getting that junk out of the HKLM-Run. No use running something 100% of the time when you may only use it 1% of the time. Shenan Stanley wrote: The answer was in the same post... Since you have an NVidia card - visit Nvidia.com and get the latest unified driver, install it, and learn to utilize it. Also - Sceptre, CRT monitor... Could be it is just going out. However - since you mention that it is mostly movies that are dark, the adjustments in the video card drivers along with adjustments in whatever application you are using to play them should help. JCO wrote: There are no updates for the GeForce 6100. The fact that I remove unwanted programs from running in the system tray should be irrelevant. You should be able to access everything from the control panel, if necessary. I will keep looking... and post an update if I can figure it out. It was/is irrelevant (to me - at least given the problem at hand) - thus why I did not understand why YOU posted about it (twice now). Control Panel -- Display -- Settings -- Advanced and usually the Unified NVidia Driver has a TAB of its own... By the name of the video card in question quite often. For some the 'Classic' control panel (NVIDIA) is easier to navigate. Look at Video Overlay and Color Correction. So you are running the : ForceWare Release 90 Version: 93.71 Release Date: November 2, 2006 Driver? http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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