LG L246W

I am running XP FYI. I find it really hard to believe that your card does not support this monitor. I would just try as many things as possible as it is a really good monitor. If you game, an 8800GTX or better should be in your future. Also you might want to try to contact XFX support, they may have some insight.

I was using XP when I first had this problem and I wanted to switch to vista anyhow so I did. It is a very strange problem and I have not found much info on it.

I'm trying my best to make it work as I just found out looking at the receipt that they charged me about $120 less. I bought it for $350 including tax at circuit city.
 
contact XFX or wait for some more people to respond. I can replicate your problem if I set the resolution to 1920*1080. You have some setting messed up. When you reinstall your gfx drivers, cancel out of the nvidia display setup and do everything from windows. That is the way I do it.
 
contact XFX or wait for some more people to respond. I can replicate your problem if I set the resolution to 1920*1080. You have some setting messed up. When you reinstall your gfx drivers, cancel out of the nvidia display setup and do everything from windows. That is the way I do it.

I'll try not installing the nvidia control panel and see what happens. Probably call xfx tomorrow.
 
Let us know how it goes, you will love the monitor once you get this issue resolved, especially for the price you paid, I paid $500 for mine.
 
Let us know how it goes, you will love the monitor once you get this issue resolved, especially for the price you paid, I paid $500 for mine.

Still need to call XFX. I could not find anyway to install the drivers without installing the control panel. Even if I uninstall the drivers, redetect and manual select the driver it will always install the control panel. The driver automatically installs it.
 
Is there any way to adjust the backlight brightness when hooked up to a video source (PS3)? It doesn't seem to let you go into the quick adjustments for brightness and contrast (up/down button) when it's not getting a PC (or in my case Mac) signal.

Anyone mess around with any of the settings in the service menu?

To get there:
Turn screen off. Hold down MENU+DOWN, and turn screen on. Then go into menu and push DOWN to show the service menu.

Nvram Initial OFF
ADC Calib -RGB 0
ADC Calib -COMP To Start
Aging Mode OFF
Elapsed TIme Clear To Set
White Balance

Not sure what any of these do.
 
Is there any way to adjust the backlight brightness when hooked up to a video source (PS3)? It doesn't seem to let you go into the quick adjustments for brightness and contrast (up/down button) when it's not getting a PC (or in my case Mac) signal.

Anyone mess around with any of the settings in the service menu?

To get there:
Turn screen off. Hold down MENU+DOWN, and turn screen on. Then go into menu and push DOWN to show the service menu.

Nvram Initial OFF
ADC Calib -RGB 0
ADC Calib -COMP To Start
Aging Mode OFF
Elapsed TIme Clear To Set
White Balance

Not sure what any of these do.

Hmmm, interesting. I wonder what Aging Mode is. :p
 
Yeah I didn't think that there was any way around the CP. Any luck yet today?

Called XFX three times, couldn't get through. I have E-mailed them and it says they promise to reply. It seems to me its only a 8600 problem but we will see. The only reason I bought it was for purevideo hd though.
 
8800GTX will not do HD decoding if thats want you want. Looks like you should get an 8800GTS G92. Do you game at all on the PC?
 
8800GTX will not do HD decoding if thats want you want. Looks like you should get an 8800GTS G92. Do you game at all on the PC?

Naw I don't game, my computer is geared towards media and quiet. I haven't bought an ATI video card in a while so I might try the Radeon HD 2600XT, which according to tomshardware is actually faster then 8600gt. I don't need anything fast, but I want h.264 hardware decoding.

I might try out spores, fallout 3, and starcraft when they come out though. :D
 
ATI has really brought back their game, but that is for another thread. Hope it all works out in the end for you. XFX will come through, I always used the ticket feature on their website under support central.
 
ATI has really brought back their game, but that is for another thread. Hope it all works out in the end for you. XFX will come through, I always used the ticket feature on their website under support central.

Thanks, thats more reassuring. My previous card was XFX too and I never had any problems.
BestBuy just announced they are promoting blue-ray by the way, don't know if your interested. I bought this monitor pretty much solely for blue-ray.
 
Called XFX three times, couldn't get through. I have E-mailed them and it says they promise to reply. It seems to me its only a 8600 problem but we will see. The only reason I bought it was for purevideo hd though.

This is a problem with Nvidia's Vista drivers. The problem is with cards that support HDMI (even over the DVI port) and monitors that only have HDMI input. It was a problem with ATi cards (2600 etc) before, but ATi addressed it in their drivers. Some other threads on this issue:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=235174 <-- with a picture of the problem

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=2133947

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=48955

As far as I know there is no fix and Nvidia hasn't addressed it. In XP you might want to try disabling "Treat as HDTV", but I can't comment for sure since I only have Vista.
 
Thanks, thats more reassuring. My previous card was XFX too and I never had any problems.
BestBuy just announced they are promoting blue-ray by the way, don't know if your interested. I bought this monitor pretty much solely for blue-ray.

Blu-Ray = PS3 for me
 
This is a problem with Nvidia's Vista drivers. The problem is with cards that support HDMI (even over the DVI port) and monitors that only have HDMI input. It was a problem with ATi cards (2600 etc) before, but ATi addressed it in their drivers. Some other threads on this issue:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=235174 <-- with a picture of the problem

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=2133947

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=48955

As far as I know there is no fix and Nvidia hasn't addressed it. In XP you might want to try disabling "Treat as HDTV", but I can't comment for sure since I only have Vista.

So does this mean if I switch to Vista I'll have problems with my monitor? I'm using an 8800GTX.
 
This is a problem with Nvidia's Vista drivers. The problem is with cards that support HDMI (even over the DVI port) and monitors that only have HDMI input. It was a problem with ATi cards (2600 etc) before, but ATi addressed it in their drivers. Some other threads on this issue:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=235174 <-- with a picture of the problem

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=2133947

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=48955

As far as I know there is no fix and Nvidia hasn't addressed it. In XP you might want to try disabling "Treat as HDTV", but I can't comment for sure since I only have Vista.

Thanks so much for that info! I'm waiting for a reply from XFX and we will see what they have to say.
 
Is it normal to have the sides just a extreme slight in brightness when viewing a blackscreen. Only noticable on very dark shades of gray. Almost looks like a slight glare. Really slight. If I move my head to the right or left the area i'm looking at becomes non glare like.

I figure this is just an normal LCD thing. You really have to look for it though. I just got my LG246 yesterday. Was made in april 2007.

No dead pixels. Using dead pixel buddy showing a black display. The sides look around 1% lighter than the center.

I hope this is normal. But when viewing, red green blue screens I cant see any variations in color. Just the black screen and light shades of gray.

Using sRGB mode since that was the only mode where I could get brightness down to 20 without losing contrast. Blacks are great and color is great.

I am also wondering about this. It seems like I'm experiencing the same thing with my L246. This is my first MVA monitor. I'm upgrading from a TN based Samsung 225BW.

Really the only time I've noticed this phenomenon so far is when I'm surfing these HardOCP forums and it is the dark grey backgrounds that seem to be lighter on the sides of my vision. Seems to be a viewing angle thing. Because like Galvin said, if I move over sideways, the lightness seems to move so it's always only on the sides of where I'm sitting directly infront of.

I didn't have this with the TN panel. I guess I was expecting the horizontal viewing angles to be better too since they are advertised as better with *VA panels.
 
should i keep my lg L246wp? SN: 703 I got the last one at best buy for $330 otd but its open box. now i have two samsung 216bw lcd but they dont look the same, one is brighter than the other . i thought about selling one of the samsung and keeping the LG but i never bought anything open box before. outside on the box it sealed by "inspect by geek squad" tape. i dont know how good that is
 
I got mine (245WP) and I've had it hooked up all day, and after a lot of tweaking, I'm very happy. I could not find a sRGB setting I was happy with, so I finally settled on B:50, C:80, all colors: 100. It still seems as if whites are a tad bright, but blacks look perfect. I thought the Soyo looked great, but this one definitely looks better. $100 better? Hard to say. The overall quality is definitely better.

One of my employees is going to buy the Soyo from me, so this is a keeper.
 
Latest response from XFX:

[DANIEL_E - 02/13/2008] Hi, does your monitor have a vga input? If so I would try using vga. We`ve seen a few issues with some monitors that have hdmi inputs on them where the system will see the monitor as a television and not a computer monitor. Is this an lg or a benq monitor those are the ones we`ve seen the issue occur on. Have you contacted the manufacturer to see if they`ve seen this issue? Sometimes monitors will have drivers available. It usually occurs when the edid chip in the monitor does not communicate the capabilities of the display correctly. Have you tried a dvi monitor on the video card to ensure the dvi port works correctly? Daniel
 
Latest response from XFX:

I wonder if this would help - Possible fix for Some Scaling Issues, I fixed my 8800 + Widescreen Scaling!

My monitor's EDID also reports a max resolution of 1600x1200. The driver reports 1920x1200 though. My suspicion is that the NVidia card ignores the driver when hooked up over HDMI since it assumes it's talking to a TV. I haven't yet tried hacking EDID, since I'm a little nervous about the effects of doing that (IE. Does HDCP get messed up?)

I also found some interesting registry keys in some nv_disp.inf files found here:

nv_HDTVModes
nv_HDTVModesFRR

I tried adding 1920x1200 to those keys and importing them into the registry, but all that happened was I lost 1920x1200 as an option. It's possible I didn't modify them properly, so feel free to give it a shot.
 
I wonder if this would help - Possible fix for Some Scaling Issues, I fixed my 8800 + Widescreen Scaling!

I tried adding 1920x1200 to those keys and importing them into the registry, but all that happened was I lost 1920x1200 as an option. It's possible I didn't modify them properly, so feel free to give it a shot.

I can set the correct resolution "1920x1200" in the control panel or windows. I think what I will need to adjust to make this work are the horiz and vert frequencies, I'm not sure if you can do that by editing the inf file. The monitor may be reporting back the wrong frequencies but I have not found a way to change them manually.
 
I can set the correct resolution "1920x1200" in the control panel or windows. I think what I will need to adjust to make this work are the horiz and vert frequencies, I'm not sure if you can do that by editing the inf file. The monitor may be reporting back the wrong frequencies but I have not found a way to change them manually.

I can also set 1920x1200, but I wonder if the card is still enforcing whatever the EDID says regardless of what you can do in Windows.

Also found this from http://www.digital-cp.com/home/HDCPSpecificationRev1_1.pdf:

"State H1: Read EDID. Whenever HPD is active, the HDCP Transmitter must assume that
the receiver is available and displaying an image to the user. Consequently, the transmitter
should transmit an image to the screen as soon as feasible. Upon detection of HPD, the HDCP
Transmitter reads the EDID to determine the capabilities of the sink device, including whether
it is HDMI capable (refer to the HDMI Specification 1.0 for details). If both transmitter and
receiver are HDMI-capable, then the TMDS transmitter enters HDMI mode, otherwise, it
enters DVI mode."

I wonder if there's a simple way to just disable HDMI mode in the EDID.
 
I can also set 1920x1200, but I wonder if the card is still enforcing whatever the EDID says regardless of what you can do in Windows.

I wonder if there's a simple way to just disable HDMI mode in the EDID.

Thanks for the info, I will look into this EDID stuff.
 
I can also set 1920x1200, but I wonder if the card is still enforcing whatever the EDID says regardless of what you can do in Windows.

I wonder if there's a simple way to just disable HDMI mode in the EDID.

Since I'm at work and my monitor is at home, can someone run this program: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dump_edid.html

do something like: dumpedit.exe > c:\l246wp.txt

dump the edid info into a text file then post it here, it'll be useful info for everyone.
 
I just got my L245W and so far so good. Looks excellent sitting next to my 1 year old Dell 2407wfp a03, they just barely fit together on my desk.

No stuck pixels on mine and my father is reporting the same on the one I ordered him, here's hoping no gremlins pop up.
 
I just went through Houston's last two LG l246wp new in box monitors.

The first one from Frys I took back, it had 3 stuck pixels and cost me $570 and was manufactured May 07.

The second I just got from Circuit City NIB, zero stuck pixels, only $340! But was manufactured in Jan 07.

Circuit City FTW!
 
*****************************************************************

Registry Key : DISPLAY\GSM563F\5&2f79892b&2&11335588&01&00

Monitor Name : L246WP

Manufacture Week : 3 / 2007

ManufacturerID : 27934 (0x6D1E)

ProductID : 22079 (0x563F)

Serial Number (Numeric) : 57279 (0x0000DFBF)

EDID Version : 1.3

Display Gamma : 2.20

Vertical Frequency : 56 - 75 Hz

Horizontal Frequency : 30 - 83 KHz

Image Size : 43.2 X 32.4 cm (21.3 Inch)

Maximum Image Size : 52 X 32 cm (24.0 Inch)

Maximum Resolution : 1680 X 1050

Support Standby Mode : Yes

Support Suspend Mode : Yes

Support Low-Power Mode : Yes

Support Default GTF : No

Digital : Yes



Supported Display Modes :

720 X 400 70 Hz

640 X 480 60 Hz

640 X 480 75 Hz

800 X 600 60 Hz

800 X 600 75 Hz

1024 X 768 60 Hz

1024 X 768 75 Hz

1280 X 1024 75 Hz

1600 X 1200 60 Hz

1680 X 1050 60 Hz

1280 X 960 75 Hz

1280 X 1024 60 Hz

*****************************************************************

Hmm....no 1920x1200 could be a problem
 
*****************************************************************

Registry Key : DISPLAY\GSM563F\5&2f79892b&2&11335588&01&00

Monitor Name : L246WP

Manufacture Week : 3 / 2007

ManufacturerID : 27934 (0x6D1E)

ProductID : 22079 (0x563F)

Serial Number (Numeric) : 57279 (0x0000DFBF)

EDID Version : 1.3

Display Gamma : 2.20

Vertical Frequency : 56 - 75 Hz

Horizontal Frequency : 30 - 83 KHz

Image Size : 43.2 X 32.4 cm (21.3 Inch)

Maximum Image Size : 52 X 32 cm (24.0 Inch)

Maximum Resolution : 1680 X 1050

Support Standby Mode : Yes

Support Suspend Mode : Yes

Support Low-Power Mode : Yes

Support Default GTF : No

Digital : Yes



Supported Display Modes :

720 X 400 70 Hz

640 X 480 60 Hz

640 X 480 75 Hz

800 X 600 60 Hz

800 X 600 75 Hz

1024 X 768 60 Hz

1024 X 768 75 Hz

1280 X 1024 75 Hz

1600 X 1200 60 Hz

1680 X 1050 60 Hz

1280 X 960 75 Hz

1280 X 1024 60 Hz

*****************************************************************

Hmm....no 1920x1200 could be a problem

Can you check if 1680x1050 works OK? I won't be able to check until later tonight.
 
my new one says l246wp on the back and l245wp v1.420 in the service menu, sigh. there exactly the same right? even input lag?

it could be me but this one seems to have a slightly more pronounced picture and color and its a little brighter on the lower left corner, the first one was made 4 months later, and seemed to have a more refined picture, tell me if Im crazy
Thanks
 
I tried it in XP but it didn't overwrite the registry like it should have.

Here's the line I added, just above the NV_Modes line:

HKR,, OverrideEdidFlags0, %REG_BINARY%, 1E,6D,3F,56,00,00,FF,FF,04,00,00,00,00,80,00,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,FF,00,1E,6D,3F,56,2E,9E,00,00,03,11,01,03,8E,34,20,78,EA,5A,D5,A7,56,4B,9B,24,13,50,54,A5,4B,00,A9,40,81,8F,B3,00,81,4F,81,80,D1,00,01,01,01,01,28,3C,80,A0,70,B0,23,40,30,20,36,00,B0,44,11,00,00,1A,48,3F,40,30,62,B0,32,40,40,C0,13,00,B0,44,11,00,00,1E,00,00,00,FD,00,38,4B,1E,53,11,00,0A,20,20,20,20,20,20,00,00,00,FC,00,4C,32,34,36,57,50,0A,20,20,20,20,20,20,01,10
 
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