DELL P1110 monitor too bright

Ivan

TheSmJ

Turns out the tube in my Compaq P1100 is shot (hence the red/pink color I couldnt get rid of). I ended up buying a new widescreen LCD instead :D

VMS-EddieF

Hey guys. My 1st post. Great and ever lasting thread thank god :)
Ive read it just about cover to cover. Now my problem....

I did the win-das install step by step but get 3 Astro G errors and No mdl file error.

Then it launches, but when i chose Setup/Model Select from menu i get DB(Install) File error popup.

Ive followed the steps to install each file and my folder looks exactly like the one pictured on how-to site. My last completed step was the ActiveX.bat which is not making sense on how-to site. It says xp needs it to look like "this" but the text and the screenie of notepad shows 2 different things. One says system, other says system32. Help :)

Convergence tweaking is what im after. The guys that have mentioned corners being out are exactly right. Ive set up screen tv's and this is known issue to tweak to get whole screen correct and red blue green hitting exactly on each other everywhere. Sony cpd g520 21" here. My 17" Sony was dead on corner to corner and cant wait to have this one there :)

Ed

edit..i do not have any cables or converters connected. Just getting program working first. Is this cause of errors? Thanks.

WarCal

Use the system32 text in the bat, he just didn't update that screenshot with the correct info..

Daxx

mrtube said:

if you dont already have them get the CR1 files for windas, then
go to procedure, and "FINALIZE" its the last thing on the list
tab to the OK button that i can never see, hit enter, itll say 'FINALIZE??" say YES
itll finalize, and your OSD will be unlocked

Where do I get the CR1 files? My GDM-F500R has a locked OSD after I loaded a .dat file. I need to unlock this!

Okay nevermind -- my mistake. I didn't press OKAY after the upload was complete. Once I did that, my OSD unlocked.

But I am curious about the CR1 files? What are these files for and if one did need them where do you get them? Monitor specific??

Daxx

Daxx

Just finished up adjusting G2 on my GDM-F500R with the WinDAS software and an ECS cable I bought off eBay. I did find that my ECS port was mislabled and showed GND/+5VCC/RXD/TXD and I had to reverse the signal to TXD/RXD.

Other than that, it was a smooth job for the most part. My monitors brightness is back under control and it looks great!

For all you people who contributed to this fantastic thread and saved me from going out and buying another monitor, this Bud's for you! :beer:

Daxx

Triast

I would first just like to give out a big thankyou for all of you that have helped with this thread, it really is an amazing resource.

I have gone throught the thread and it seems the the problem I am stuck at now is a unique one.
I have always had a bright monitor, I did a brief look around the web before about making it a little dimmer but in the end I decided to just stick with what I had.
The monitor kept on getting brighter and brighter until I decided for the 4th time or so to do a colour return. I did the colour return, but instead of making it dim again the brightness was turned up to the very top.

After that point any time I would turn on my screen the brightness would just keep on increasing until the screen was awash with white. After being white for a second or two the monitor would click and turn to a very white and very bright mixture of colours forming a rainbow.
Sometimes the rainbow would last for 5+ minutes, but most of the time it would have the rainbow for 15 or so seconds and then shut down.

I went to the net in seach of answers and found this thread. I have managed to access the G2 level and turn it down. But alas that did not fix anything, even with the G2 level down to 50 is still does the exact same thing.

So I ask you, do you have any idea what I could do to fix this? Are there any other numbers I can change so that evil rainbow is avoided?
Thank you in advance for any advice you can give.

VMS-EddieF

I too ordered the cable yesterday off ebay for 19$ we're both happy but -

das seems to load all beit with errors but i do not get any monitors to choose from under setup - monitor select. Why?

Astro errors normal without cable connected at program launch?

still says no .mdl files

Thanks

Uriel_Dagda

Anybody live in the Pittsburgh area that can help me???!?!

I have the HP version of the FW900 (FW9012 oem), and wish I had known about this brightness problem before I bought it. :(

I have read this thread thoroughly, and at first I was ecstatic figuring it would solve all of my problems.. Unfortunately I hit a severe snag. I purchased this connector:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=160006186591&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=006

Now the most frustrating part is, I have NO way to connect it to the 4 pins I see in there! They are several inches in, and I have tried every way I can think of to get them in there.. It doesn't help that I only have sight in one eye, and have no depth perception whatsoever.. I have no money to go out and buy anything else for this fixit project either. I don't have any way of taking the case off either.. Not that I am very inclined to want to have an open, turned on monitor on my desk, waiting for my skewed vision to get me fried.

Any ideas, or anybody that lives close enough that has done this before that can come cram this damn thing in there?? At this point I'm just completely frustrated and fed up with it. So close to fixing the problem, just to run into this.. If I didnt need this monitor to actually use my computer, I would have thrown it out of the window. ARRGH I hate electronics sometimes!

:grr:

P991-DELL-SONY

VMS EddieF said:

I too ordered the cable yesterday off ebay for 19$ we're both happy but -

das seems to load all beit with errors but i do not get any monitors to choose from under setup - monitor select. Why?

Astro errors normal without cable connected at program launch?

still says no .mdl files

Thanks

IIRC, this is because flxgrd.ocx or whatever (the thing installed by activex.bat) wasn't installed/registered with windows. 90% sure this is the problem.

If I'm wrong, check the thread, I remember this problem came up and was solved before.

VMS-EddieF

P991 DELL SONY said:

IIRC, this is because flxgrd.ocx or whatever (the thing installed by activex.bat) wasn't installed/registered with windows. 90% sure this is the problem.

If I'm wrong, check the thread, I remember this problem came up and was solved before.

Can i manually place the files where they go? I did this, actually have one in system and other in system32. Should have my cable in a day or 2.

Thanks

P991-DELL-SONY

VMS EddieF said:

Can i manually place the files where they go? I did this, actually have one in system and other in system32. Should have my cable in a day or 2.

Thanks

You can do whatever is in a batch (.bat) file manually at the command prompt.

Make sure when you move the files, that you do the regserv32 command to register it with windows.

VMS-EddieF

P991 DELL SONY said:

You can do whatever is in a batch (.bat) file manually at the command prompt.

Make sure when you move the files, that you do the regserv32 command to register it with windows.

So just dragging the file to system or system32 folder isnt enough?
Can you type what i should do at command prompt? Im using xp pro.
By register you mean registry entries?

Thanks again.

btw...when i did the bat thing, that command promt window is on the screen for less then 1 second

Triast

I just did another read through the thread and now im thinking I may of turned up the contrast too high and thats whats causing the white screen of death.

Any idea values I can play with so that the contrast is turned down a bit, or where can I go to change the max value of the contrast so it doesent shut its self down.
If I can just get the monitor working for 15 minutes I can use the colour restore thing again.

joe-jones

Glad you guys are out there!

Thanks so much for your info regarding overly bright Sony Trinitron P1110 monitors. I replaced the resistor. The good news is the monitor is not nearly as bright. The bad news, maybe its not bright enough now. I am hoping I simply put in the wrong resistor. I didn't know what wattage so I went with a 1 Watt 5.1Mohm resistor. The resistor I pulled out of the monitor was much smaller is physical size. Does the wattage matter? How would you suggest getting some of my briteness back. My contrast is 100 and brightness is 100 --its not bad, but definitely could use a little brightening. Thanks for any suggestions.

Also, this is now the correct link to fantastic images and infor regarding replacing the resistor for us technically challenged folks:

http://www.hutzelman.com/web/pages/hardware/Mods/SonyCRT/

Mark

nagamitsu

joe jones said:

Glad you guys are out there!

Thanks so much for your info regarding overly bright Sony Trinitron P1110 monitors. I replaced the resistor. The good news is the monitor is not nearly as bright. The bad news, maybe its not bright enough now. I am hoping I simply put in the wrong resistor. I didn't know what wattage so I went with a 1 Watt 5.1Mohm resistor. The resistor I pulled out of the monitor was much smaller is physical size. Does the wattage matter? How would you suggest getting some of my briteness back. My contrast is 100 and brightness is 100 --its not bad, but definitely could use a little brightening. Thanks for any suggestions.

Also, this is now the correct link to fantastic images and infor regarding replacing the resistor for us technically challenged folks:

http://www.hutzelman.com/web/pages/hardware/Mods/SonyCRT/

Mark

Watt might be important. From what I see, most are using 1/4 watt. Moving up/down in number for Mohm will increase/decrease it in brightness too.

Tim

tdang81

Hello,
I am a new member to this forum and been reading up on this problem.

My question is, i have a Sun GDM-5410 monitor, and have the same "too bright" symptom. Which method should I use to fix this? I am comfortable with soldering on a resistor, but am unaware if the board are the same (where can I find this information out).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks.

tdang81 AT gmail DOT com

nagamitsu

Well, I performed the resistor mod on it this weekend. Wow, the monitor is like brand new now! (minus some burned image faintly seen on screen)

Colour is great, no lines anymore. I used the 5.6Mohm 1/4 watt resistor. Now my brightness is set about 50.

Now if I could only get rid of the burned image on the screen. :wtf:

DELLP1110USER

I just got a Dell P1110 ultrascan monitor from my dad's work, it is having an overbrightness issue and it has horizontal green lines on it, any recommendations, also is there a way to bypass the pass key on the winDAS file...... + what type of resistor should i try for this monitor, TY

Daxx

My Sony GDM-F500R looks a lot better after reprogramming the brightness with WinDAS, but I think I could use a little more Contrast. How do I increase the contrast with WinDAS??

Mint21

Daxx said:

My Sony GDM-F500R looks a lot better after reprogramming the brightness with WinDAS, but I think I could use a little more Contrast. How do I increase the contrast with WinDAS??

I have the same question about contrast

DELLP1110USER

I did the resistor mod to my P1110, and it looks awesome, the ugly green lines disapeered and the screen is nice and black instead of light-gray, who ever thought of that resistor mod, i salute you.
I Salute You All For this Thred
:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

Triast

Mint21 said:

I have the same question about contrast

Same here, if anyone knows the answer I would be so grateful.

mrmazda

"What did you use to save the file? Wordpad in windows XP likes to save stuff as unicode rather than ASCII. Make sure you save the file in ASCII. Use notepad if you can (not sure if there is a notepad in XP, or if it has changed and doesn't use ACSII anymore). If all else fails use a hex editor, which is overkill, but atleast you'll be sure of which bytes you changed."

Using 98SE I have the same problem. And, somehow during the confusion of multiple retries and frustration, something managed to delete my original copy. I'm going to try to undelete it, but have no idea whether it's even possible. At least it's FAT32 and not NTFS.

Anyway, the monitor goes black and stays black upon attempting to load the "different" file, even though the save format can't be different. It has the same byte count, and thus can't have had anything added or removed AFAICT.

I actually have three of these P991s. One, 4 months older than the other two, is still decent as is. The one I was working on and lost the saved file from was almost usable. The 3rd was much worse, but has a serial # very similar to the 2nd. I was able to do a new save from it and restore it to the 2nd. Now the 2nd is as bad as the 3rd, so I know this software can do its job if only I can figure out how to avoid random file deletions, and make edits that it will accept. Maybe I can do a save from the best one and restore to the other two and need to do no more if only those 4 months difference don't mean the settings would be too far off.

Here are the contents of the two windows that don't pop up using the original:

1)-now model = P991; save model = P991 9195.mdl ; Load OK?; Y/N
2)-now using std = F99.std; save data std = F99 std; save format is different; OK.

The first also has 3 garbage characters. After the attempt, there's never any motion on the progress bar like with the original had.

Any suggestions? Dare I try the save from the one off a very different production run?

P.S. - the last sentence of http://www.geocities.com/gregua/windas/adjustment.html says: "This is only the beginning, I will explain the rest of the values in the next howto", but I can't find anything that looks anything like that.

kemist

Hey guys. I recently purchased an FW900. I followed the windas tutorial and the windas software will load, however upon trying to save my monitor profile 1 of 2 things occurs: either i get a "Can't connect to Monitor! Check Bus line and condition!" or Windows generates an error and the software crashes.

The check bus line error occurs if i just load windas and try to save, while the crash occur if i alter either the monitor profile or the config for the serial port. I have tried swapping the TXD and RXD on my cable but i still can not get the software to interface with the monitor. Im using an epox 9nda3+(i think thats the right model) motherboard and both serial ports are turned on in the bios. I have had the monitor connected both with vga and bnc cables. Nothing seems to be getting it to work.

Anybody have any ideas? Is it possible to fry the cable if you hook the wires up wrong? I purchased the ebay cable and it took a few attempts to get it hooked up correct; i may have put the wires on the wrong leads at first. Anyway hope someone can help. Thanks.

Mint21

As far as the bus-line goes, make sure the cable is connected properly, and make sure your comm ports are configured (enabled) through the BIOS.

When the software crashes, re-launch and immediately go to the next step, in other words, don’t start from the beginning again.

Example: you launch program, select monitor, configure comm port, then go to save data, system crashes! Re-launch program and go directly to save data! It should work, provided the cable is communicating with the monitor. This is a known problem and fix

Don’t know what your cable configuration is: mine is:
TXD (Blk Wire)
RXD (GRN Wire)
VDC (+5) (Red Wire)
GND (Ylw Wire)

You also need to check the pin configuration on the monitor. Mine is:

Dell P991: From Back (cover) going to front (CRT):

TXD (Blk Wire) towards back cover
RXD (GRN Wire)
VDC (+5) (Red Wire)
GND (Ylw Wire) towards monitor screen

If the cable and connection is configured properly, check the bios again; if the comm ports are set to auto, switch to enabled or vice versa. I’m guessing you have two comm. Ports on that board so try both. If this doesn’t work, check the cable.

Good luck.