The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Display becomes temporarily over-saturated?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Aerotype, Nov 12, 2010.

  1. Aerotype

    Aerotype Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    131
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    31
    I've had this happen with multiple different display drivers, for the intel and nvidia, I think the problem is with the intel graphics driver but I'm not certain. It basically looks like if you were to have automatic brightness or something like from an ambient light sensor but for saturation, the display transitions from completely normal to way over-saturated over a period of 1-2 seconds, not like an immediate switch. Sometimes it will only last a few seconds and reverse back, other times it will last for well over 10 minutes and presumably will not automatically fix itself as I am forced to restart to get it to go back to normal, haven't found another way around it. Has anyone had this problem, and/or know how to fix it? I'm sure it's not a hardware issue that needs to be sent in for repairs etc., rather I'm about 85% sure it's some type of bug in my intel drivers (tried reinstalling/also have updated a few times since my first encounter) or something in my ICC profile (which is the default one, although I have tried custom profiles in the past, so could be an issue).

    Edit: I'm currently on 260.89 nvidia drivers, and 8.15.10.2202 intel drivers.
     
  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    3,905
    Messages:
    6,116
    Likes Received:
    89
    Trophy Points:
    216
  3. Aerotype

    Aerotype Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    131
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Thanks! I can't believe it was that simple, at to think this is supposed to be a "feature."