Banding occuring with Lacie 321 as external monitor?

Please help me.

I have just purchased a Lacie 321 lcd monitor and everything was splendid until I decided to take a look at my pictures. This phase of this story is crucial, as I am a professional photgrapher and this new lcd monitor will be used to edit photos.

To my horror, I can clearly see banding on my photos. Initially I thought it was the problem with the image, so I took a look at other images. Same result. These photos were fine with a CRT and now with the Lacie 321, they are all banded.

I don't know if anyone has experienced a similar problem with their external lcd/tft monitors with their 1.67ghz powerbook. By the way, this is the "last" powerbook model (right before macbookk pro).

From the looks of it, this seems to be a powerbook problem and not a monitor problem...

Any help will be appreciated.

Ryu

1.67 ghz G4 AlBook, Mac OS X (10.4.4), 1.5GB RAM

Posted on Feb 3, 2006 12:29 PM

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Feb 4, 2006 7:44 AM in response to louie

Louie,

Thanks for your reply.

I checked the system profiler and this is what I found:

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700:
Chipset Model: ATY,RV360M11
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4e50
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-xxxxx-169
Displays:

LaCie 321:
Resolution: 1600 x 1200 @ 60 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
Display:
Status: No display connected

I also checked the setting and it is currently now set to:
-1600X1200
-Millions (32bit)
-60 Hertz

Does this mean that the display is functioning correctly, but there is something wrong with the PB video card?

Ryu

Feb 6, 2006 10:01 AM in response to Ryu

Everything appears to be set properly, so I don't know what your problem could be. I can only conjecture that if everything is really OK, that you are simply too sensitive to the limits of the LCD display. You can try another display, and another computer on the LaCie to be sure where the fault lies.

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