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Unfortunately the new thingy produces the exact same issues as the one before it. I already mentioned several time here, for example at => https://hardforum.com/threads/24-widescreen-crt-fw900-from-ebay-arrived-comments.952788/page-459#post-1045055441 If you are curious, I am attaching the...

I think it does not matter when the USB port is powered and stable enough. But I had my fair share of physically busted USB ports that would disconnect all the time => probably not something you want happening when writing to the monitor memory, but I think the memory should have some safety...

Thank you, close up photos front and back would be much appreciated, especially when without markings. Any chance you still remember if you hooked up the 5V connection or not?

I was browsing some analog photography and I spotted this sort of a recurring effect on grass or trees or concrete etc. It looks very eye-pleasing: https://i.redd.it/nkg8pa6ssuu61.jpg https://i.redd.it/tldkoflhkqg51.jpg https://i.redd.it/0vpnoqpx9zd61.jpg https://i.redd.it/y09tozx0gfv51.jpg...

Thanks for the quick reply. It took me a while to sift through the thread but I found who it was now ... Definitely recommend doing WPB every 6 months at least. Paging doctor jbltecnicspro ... Could you please kindly let me know the exact model of the USB thingy you had for F520 and which...

Enhanced Interrogator Sorry, I can't remember now, was it perhaps you who has F520 and can perform WPB without any issues like errors or washed out colors after WPB? If yes, could you please kindly let me know the exact model of the USB thingy you have and which connections do you connect? (I...

Also known as IMAGE RESTORATION on Trinitrons. If you perform it on Trinitrons, you can go undo it by loading the previous DAT file to memory. But on Diamondtrons you would need to change the settings back manually. And it won't tell you which settings it changed. So you need to have them all...

Have you tried to have all this at the same time BEFORE turning it ON: - lower contrast and brightness in OSD to zero - use white color background then turning it ON and also open the OSD menu as soon possible (even though you can't see it because it's still all black during the initial boot...

It could have something to do with aging capacitors or something like that. It looks as if some voltage needs to stabilize there first then it works just fine. It's only during cold startup after hours (=overnight) of being turned off. Yeah, it's all bonkers. Not just the blacks. It's all a bit...

The "without LUT" picture is also "before WPB", should have made it more clear. If I do WPB then black is like dark gray, everything is washed away and little blurry. Not sure about the whitepoint precision there, didn't even look. Black level seems the same, true black. Gamma curve is flat on...

without LUT: with LUT (2.2G): notes: this is on default DAT, with lowered OSD brightness (from 50 to 38) to reach true black. But it is not in prime mode, it is in 2336x1314@99Hz (don't ask lol). I am sure it could be better if the WPB procedure would work on this one but so far I was...

No idea about that, I just wanted to combine the game and calibration LUTs together (because you can only have 1 of them active), using some extrapolation/approximation. If you look at the below snippets from actual LUT data, it should be a simple task: DEFAULT ... 250 64000 64000...

Thanks, I will give it a go soon and post the results. But now that I have a nice LUT I keep running into conflicts with games using their own LUTs, I am thinking of making a simple tool to combine in-game LUT with my LUT. Not sure if it will produce nice results at all, but I am somewhat...

Correct, picture is washed out, black is gray and guns seem to be in overdrive so everything is a bit blurry. Whitepoint is far from correct (even though I hit the chromacity targets perfectly during WPB). Just a small bug, worked around by loading the dat file in twice and finalizing it twice...

It is as if the WPB formulations behind the scene are wrong, something like some important variable value being incorrect and I have no control over it with the exposed variables in the procedure. I have tried faking higher/lower G2, higher/lower luminance target in that 6.5 nits step, and more...

Yes, with dispwin -c, nvidia panel and displaycal. You can tell it is reset because it crashes blacks a lot and changes the whitepoint considerably. Post WPB LUT calibration shows no issues. It's just the WPB being a problem. Thankfully I can play around by editing the dat file and OSD to get...

Ok so I have the thing now. Seems to measure faster and more precise at first sight, how big the real difference is I have yet to tell. But I still have the windas issues with F520 that I had reported here before :{ This time I am actually getting an error which (I think) I wasn't before. On...

Great, I will look into that but I think it would (or rather should) be the same for both plus and non-plus, seeing how it's the same base product in the naming scheme.

Thanks, apparently there is a newer(?) version called plus at https://www.xrite.com/categories/calibration-profiling/chart-readers/i1display-pro-plus It specifically mentions OLED and 2000 nits HDR. I am not sure how much of that is just marketing (when comparing to the non-plus version) but so...

I am looking to replace my old DTP-94 colorimeter with something better. Preferably around $150-$400 price point. Something that works well with CRT phosphors and Argyll/DisplayCAL/HCFR, and measures more precise in deep black levels, etc, any recommendations, please?

I say we all pitch in and buy that sucker for 3K. Then you will see a flood of soviet block monitors on eBay, looking to feed the demand that is not really there. Then we watch those prices slowly fall to the bottom, at which point we all buy spares :whistle: I bought my FW900 for $250 in 2018...

Every now and then there comes a display that makes me think I could enjoy it as much as I enjoy CRTs. This year it is LG CX and ZX line. OLED, 120Hz, FreeSync/G-SYNC. It is a TV but supposedly works well as a PC monitor. They have 48,55,65" at 4K and 8k in 77,88"...

Flybye Is 375MHz the pixelclock limit there? The "old" Sunix adapter could do ~500-550MHz.

I have not worked with DAS, but in your case, start troubleshooting with simple things, can you see options to save to .DAT and then write that same .DAT back in? If yes, does it work if you try doing it, or do you get blue screened as well? Btw, are you required to "pick a model" before you...

Sony DAS (Digital Alignment System) for DOS (v4.2.1, 2/05/98) EXE Program Download Files are attached to this post somewhere, names: SONY DAS J4.2.1.part1.rar SONY DAS J4.2.1.part2.rar Shared 100% as I found it, no repack. For convenience I have unpacked it and attached a few more files...

It's just this one unit, there must be something wrong with it. But I only have/had this one F520 model so cannot rule out a model issue. My other CRTs do not have/had this issue. WinDAS should work on all Windows and without differences, once installed correctly. edit: By the way, IIRC WinDAS...

It's been a while since I have been here, could be a year, I don't know. Anyway, here is some info dump, for posterity. I know there is still a few people reading this thread. Issue: Sony F520 cannot reach resolutions higher than 2048x1536 (because of wrong EDID info, IIRC limited to only...

Tried connecting F520 to a different computer with Windows 7 and GPU with analog port and it is still reported as 220MHz...but - I can actually go upto 400MHz resolutions there - it just works. So I was thinking perhaps the Sunix adapter reads 220MHz from EDID and hard-forces this limit...

Yes, 2048x1536@50hz mode works fine. Same with NCP resolutions beyond 220MHz but I cannot use DSR that way and there was a weird issue I posted a few posts above this one. Regarding the adapter, it looked like the real deal from the outside to me but you might want to study some tech...

It is indeed a Sony EDID (SNY06B0 - GDM-F520). VM is usually stuck at 1280x1024 I think, I am getting 1600x1200 max. I looked into the monitor.inf file at it states: [GDM-F520.Install] DelReg=DCR AddReg=GDM-F520.AddReg, 2048, DPMS I would think that should register 2048x1536 resolution but...

Thanks, got it now. Had to switch to no signal and then hold the OK key for a few seconds (GDM-F520). 15 000 hours :)

GDM-F520, if I hold MENU button for a few seconds I get almost the same thing as Strat_84 is showing above ... but without the 2 bottom lines so nope :) Usage time could be clocked in the DAT file though, anyone looked there? I definitely saw usage clock on 2070SB in the service menu, had like...

Thanks for the pointers! You are right, it is reported as 220MHz in CRU. CRU has option to change that value but it does not seem to work for me. Didnt have much time to fiddle with it yet.

Thanks, I will keep that idea for next time though, because it is working nicely now and I have other issues with it that I need to sort somehow and not too much free time on my hands to handle it all :/ The most pressing issue now is that anything that has to do with EDID does not work well...

During WPB, the target for 9300K is 112cdm2, 6500K is 97cdm2 and 5000K is 82cdm2. This oddly corresponds to the picture modes. Yes, I do have a backup of the original state of the monitor. It was 170 for G2. Display was bright, washed out, skewed a little, and green. There were no retrace...

Okay, so I loaded the last DAT after normal WPB. This resulted in that grey picture. Now I have attempted another WPB, but this time, instead of choosing on-target G2 of 116, I went with a value of 95. I came to conclusion that it needs to be 95 after some trial/error hexediting and loading the...

Thanks! FAIL_INFO says everything is normal, even after refreshing. I actually prefer 9300K. I prefer bluer/greener picture for gaming and greener picture for movies on my TV. So to me, 9300K is yellow enough. The model is indeed selected correctly as GDM-F520 (CR1 chassis). I have done some...

Hm, I didnt know there are any maintenance logs. Could you please give me more specific directions, it is not readily apparent from the UI and I dont want to click around WinDAS in case I start something that would be hard to get out of. There is "Adjustments > Maintenance", is that it? Or is...

I use DTP94 as well, it is perfectly fine, there is no need to spend any more money on this. It measures a bit slowly in dark picture, and x/y/Y readings of picture dimmer than 5cdm2 are probably skewed/wrong, but neither of these things is an actual issue for our purposes.

Okay, Ive made some (hacky) progress now. I have: 1 - hexedited G2 from 116 down to 106 and loaded the DAT file in 2 - lowered Brightness from 50 down to 36 to achieve black pedestal (this is a hint for me to go for G2 slightly lower than 106 next time) 3 - increased contrast from 85 to 100 4...