LCD display too bright

[Vanja]

I have just switched from my Belinea 17" CRT to a brand new Philips TFT 17" 170S4. They all were attached on a nVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphic card. The screen on my first monitor was fine, but when I set the new one (TFT) it is too bright. I even set the brightness and contrast on the monitor controls to a minimum, but the screen is still very bright: I can barely see the scroll bar on the right.

Any suggestions how to fix this issue?

'regards
Vanja

[Skunkboy]

Start | Control Panel | Display | Settings | Advanced

There should be something in there for you. In my case:
Intel Extreme Graphics | Graphics Properties | Color



Hope this leads you in the right direction.

[(jj)]

Did you install drivers for the new LCD monitor? In your display properties you would need to make sure that the LCD monitor is the one selected. A CRT monitor requires more drive and would overdrive an LCD.

[Vanja]

I tried every possible tab and button in the Display/Settings/Advance but still no good. Seems like that my graphic card does not support such options as yours.

I also double checked that the right monitor is selected and I deleted the old drivers.

Still very bright...

[Vanja]

Just to let everyone know that I resolved this issue.

I figured that when I was first installing Windows XP (2 years ago), I had let windows automatically detect my video card and install a driver for it. I deleted that driver and installed a new one from the installation disks.
After I did that, in the Advanced tab on my display settings, 3 more tabs appeared, one of which is named "colour corrections". I fixed the brightness there and now everything is fine.


Thanks to all who tried to help.