Colors bleach out after XP screen savers

[Yeah]

This is a total shot in the dark. I couldn't find any newsgroups for
Samsung, "LCD", or "monitor". I'm not a member of many tech forums.

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I have a Samsung 19" LCD monitor running on an ATI Radeon 9600XT video card
and currently using the bundled analog cable with my monitor (a DVI-D cable
is on order).

After I exit a high-color game or interrupt an XP OpenGL screen saver, the
Windows color scheme bleaches out (the Red/Green/Blue scale drops to 20%).

This is REALLY irritating, and I have to go into the included Natural Color
app (color & calibration software) to fix this every time.

Why is this happening??? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Rock]

This is a total shot in the dark. I couldn't find any newsgroups for
Samsung, "LCD", or "monitor". I'm not a member of many tech forums.

=========================================

I have a Samsung 19" LCD monitor running on an ATI Radeon 9600XT video card
and currently using the bundled analog cable with my monitor (a DVI-D cable
is on order).

After I exit a high-color game or interrupt an XP OpenGL screen saver, the
Windows color scheme bleaches out (the Red/Green/Blue scale drops to 20%).

This is REALLY irritating, and I have to go into the included Natural Color
app (color & calibration software) to fix this every time.

Why is this happening??? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Try uninstall / reinstall with graphics drivers with the latest one from
the ATI site.

 

[Quaoar]

This is a total shot in the dark. I couldn't find any newsgroups for
Samsung, "LCD", or "monitor". I'm not a member of many tech forums.

=========================================

I have a Samsung 19" LCD monitor running on an ATI Radeon 9600XT
video card and currently using the bundled analog cable with my
monitor (a DVI-D cable is on order).

After I exit a high-color game or interrupt an XP OpenGL screen
saver, the Windows color scheme bleaches out (the Red/Green/Blue
scale drops to 20%).
This is REALLY irritating, and I have to go into the included Natural
Color app (color & calibration software) to fix this every time.

Why is this happening??? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

If you are going to use a color manager separate from the ATI display
properties, then you will have to save the Samsung color settings in a
color profile (*.icc, *.icm files) that can be loaded as the default
color profile in the monitor properties (right click desktop, select
properties, settings tab, advanced button, color management tab).

 

[Yeah]

I have a Samsung 19" LCD monitor running on an ATI Radeon 9600XT video
card and currently using the bundled analog cable with my monitor (a DVI-D
cable is on order).

After I exit a high-color game or interrupt an XP OpenGL screen saver, the
Windows color scheme bleaches out (the Red/Green/Blue scale drops to 20%).

This is REALLY irritating, and I have to go into the included Natural
Color app (color & calibration software) to fix this every time.

Why is this happening??? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

I have the only driver they have for this monitor. I've also tried the color
testing on both 1024x768 (current) and 1280x1024 (recommended) resolutions.

I noticed that NOT using Samsung's Natural Color utility, and adjusting
color only through ATI's utility (which doesn't completely calibrate the
monitor) helps a bit. Except the colors still bleach a little after a
high-color game.

I experimented with the Windows XP OpenGL savers some more. Here's what I
tried:
1280x1024, [] Disable hardware rendering checked: Color doesn't bleach
1280x1024, [] Disable hardware rendering unchecked, display at current res:
Color bleaches

And telling the screen saver to display as your next lower resolution
(hardware rendering on) seems to fix the problem. But that doesn't cure it
elsewhere...

 

[Bob I]

You may want to try different ATI drivers.

I have a Samsung 19" LCD monitor running on an ATI Radeon 9600XT video
card and currently using the bundled analog cable with my monitor (a DVI-D
cable is on order).

After I exit a high-color game or interrupt an XP OpenGL screen saver, the
Windows color scheme bleaches out (the Red/Green/Blue scale drops to 20%).

This is REALLY irritating, and I have to go into the included Natural
Color app (color & calibration software) to fix this every time.

Why is this happening??? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

I have the only driver they have for this monitor. I've also tried the color
testing on both 1024x768 (current) and 1280x1024 (recommended) resolutions.

I noticed that NOT using Samsung's Natural Color utility, and adjusting
color only through ATI's utility (which doesn't completely calibrate the
monitor) helps a bit. Except the colors still bleach a little after a
high-color game.

I experimented with the Windows XP OpenGL savers some more. Here's what I
tried:
1280x1024, [] Disable hardware rendering checked: Color doesn't bleach
1280x1024, [] Disable hardware rendering unchecked, display at current res:
Color bleaches

And telling the screen saver to display as your next lower resolution
(hardware rendering on) seems to fix the problem. But that doesn't cure it
elsewhere...

 

[Malke]

You may want to try different ATI drivers.

As Bob I wrote, see about your drivers to start with since that's an
easy fix. Or your video card may be going. I have a Samsung 19" LCD
(SyncMaster 930B) and I didn't install anything from Samsung, just
hooked it up on a machine with an Nvidia 6800GT. It's gorgeous. So I'm
thinking your issue isn't with the monitor but with the video card.

Malke