Re: Contrast Adjust on a New Dell XPS Laptop

I have the M170 it has no contrast adjustments either. That was the
first thing I looked for. Excel spread sheets hard to read at high res
and the grid almos inverts color on the edges. I also have the shinny
screen so I see a lot of reflctions. But it glows in 31 diffrent
colors.. woo hoo. Thank goodness they had an off setting for that.
Maybe Dell will read this and add it to a BIOS patch.

Rick wrote:
Greetings. I recently purchased an XPS M140 laptop from Dell, it comes
with a 14.1" WXGA matte screen (not TrueLife). Love the system thus
far, but I'm getting quite a bit of wash-out on screens with a lot of
white. Windows Explorer is a good example - plenty of white
background, which ends up washing out (to some extent - readable, but
hard) the file hierarchy text. I'm wondering how much of this may be a
phenomenon of the matte screen LCD and how much is adjustable. Two
questions:
- How much white screen 'wash-out' is reasonable to expect on this
system ?
- Is there a way to adjust screen contrast on this machine ? I'm
aware of the brightness shortcut (Fn up or down), but am unaware of any
such means to tweak contrast.

I already tried Dell Tech Support and got a guy who spent the entire 25
minute call trolling a database for answers - no decent technical
knowledge of his own - with the only suggestion being to look in the
bios settings.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rick

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