Need help with samsung 19" LCD colors look nuclear

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Need help with samsung 19" LCD colors look nuclear

I have a Samsung 960BF and my icon colors are radioactive in color. I have tried to figure out MagicTune but I have not been able to get my icons and colors to look normal. I am connected via DVI.

Mac Mini 1.42 8X DVD+-RW Dual Layer 24X CD-RW 250 Gig Firewire startup drive Mac OS X (10.4.5) Apple Bluetooth keyboard 19" Samsung 960BF DVI LCD 1 Gig Memory

Posted on Mar 21, 2006 12:20 AM

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Answer 1

BSteely

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Mar 23, 2006 9:14 PM in response to Sargenle

Could it be that Control-Command-Opt-8 was pressed? This toggles white-on-black mode. You can also get to this setting through System Preferences/Universal Access. It makes colors look very strange, so I am guessing that might be the issue.

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BSteely

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Mar 24, 2006 6:47 AM in response to Sargenle

Also, does your Samsung monitor by any chance have a "Sharpness" control burried within its menu system? You might want to try adjusting that control as well. I have a 17" Samsung that has this control and all it seems good for is messing up the text and causing it to have color fringes. Good luck.

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Sargenle Author

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Mar 24, 2006 11:12 AM in response to BSteely

I have one of the newest Samsung 19" LCDs the 960BF. It has no buttons like the prior models only a power button. Everything is to be controlled by MagicTune software. Well Magictune software screwed up my monitor. The only problem I had was my screen was to bright and my colors were very very bright. I installled magictune and made a few adjustments and the whole monitor went to **** with problems like rainbow colored text. I called tech support and they told me if I uninstalled magictune that my monitor would go back to factory default. I uninstalled restarted and it never went back to factory default. I tried everything. I ended up having to back up my data to my Mini internal drive and erasing the drive by writting zeros to the drive and then partitioning and installing 10.4 and all the updates. Now I am back to factory defaults. So it would seem the magictune 2.0 for mac does not function correctly with 10.4.5

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Sargenle Author

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Dec 16, 2006 4:10 PM in response to Sargenle

Bought Dell monitor all fixed

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