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Any tips on getting the most natural color balance for the WLED?

Seems exceptionally blue - had been running myself in circles trying to decipher the best course of action, based on all the crazy discussions about the RGB monitors, then realized thats not even what I've got. I've turned down the brightness, and futzed with colors in NVidia control panel, which seems to have helped a bit, but colors are still not quite right. Anyway, if someone has found a great profile for the WLED, would be greatly appreciated

 

Yeah got the latest driver from Nvidia as well, so don't know what else to do. Changed the DisplayPort connection out for a DVI to DP adapter which lowers the max res, and the screen still blanked out for a good 2 seconds. Could be the screen, could be something software related, no idea. Dell tech is leaning towards defective monitor.

 

If you just want to reduce blue and do not care about accuracy, then you can either use Windows 7 color calibration (Open start menu and type Calib that should find you the option) or a corresponding function of your graphics driver. ATI has this in its CCC in Desktop Properties > Color. I set the gamma of Red to 1.05, Green to 0.95 and blue to 0.90 which is OK for me.

 

Does anyone have "blinking" performance issues w/ Google Chrome?

 

Nothing blinking for me. Can you describe that in more detail?

I use the dev version of Chrome, currently at 11.0.696.3.

 

A question for long term SSD users: in several forums I read about problems of Marvel (Crucial RealSSD) and Sandforce controllers with power management functions of Windows which result in occasional hangs for a few seconds or even in data loss after trying to resume from suspend or hibernate. Did any one here encounter such problems?

 

The tabs & top (title?) bar will randomly blink a few times, in a sort of refresh rate flicker.

 

Anyone know if Dell Small Business coupons pop up for SSDs? Would like one via the credit acct but $200 more than newegg is a bit spicy

 

Yes.

I wouldn't recommend any Crucial/Marvel drive at the moment. The hiccups and pausing were first introduced by firmware 0006 on the RealSSD models (64, 128, and 256GB). I'd assume that that is the FW version shipping on those drives now. There is no way to downgrade.

The only way I've found to mitigate the issue is to enable the "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing" option in the windows device manager on that drive. It's not as critical on a laptop that has a "built in UPS" via the battery, but still... this shouldn't have happened.

The worst part is that Crucial has been completely silent about the whole affair... even on their own forums.

Frankly, I'm done with them as a company over this.

 

Hey, Bokeh, Spill, anybody....does anyone see a 'good' reason to run Dell ControlPoint System Manager? I set the keyboard lighting in the bios, and use the default 15 sec.....don't use ambient light sensor....anything I'm missing?