Acer side glow

[Undead]

I have an Acer AL1916W monitor that has an annoying glow around the edges. I think it's visible in the attached picture.

I have seen this problem on more than one monitor to varying degrees, Is there anything that can be done about it or is it just something that some monitors do? I have even had 3 identical monitors where only one will have it but not the other two.

Also, is there anything that can be changed or checked if the text on the screen is a bit blurry? My wife and I had the exact same monitors and mine was crystal clear but the text on hers was a little fuzzy. Our systems are the exact same and all the settings were the same as well.

[Undead]

Re: Acer side glow

I am quite surprised that nobody knows if either of these issues can be fixed or if they are just problems that some monitors are just plagued with from day one. In all seriousness, the experts here seem to be the most knowledgeable I have seen in any forums and if you guys don't have an answer then there must not be one.

I decided to just garbage them both as unfixable, since the glow and the blurriness are extremely annoying, and will move on to a new project.

My sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to read my questions even if nobody was able to answer them.

[gavs]

Re: Acer side glow

You can see a lot of references to working ergonomic standards, defines visual quality and safety requirements to your display, on rear shield. There is every likelihood that your display had certified to TCO-03: , in this standarts terminology, color or bright uniformity can be realized as "glow". Only measurement and recalculating using mentioned standard requirements can take objective criteria, is this phenomena defect symptom or not.

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[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Acer side glow

I seen my Acer X193W LCD look fine at lower than 1440x900, which is the native resolution.

1280x1024 looks good and even 1024x768 does.

[selldoor]

Re: Acer side glow

did you try swapping them between systems to see if the fault went with them.

I hope by trash you mean give them away a lot of people would be glad of them. Do you have Freecycle.com

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Acer side glow

What you are seeing is non uniform backlighting. It's an artifact caused by a slight misalignment of the polarizer sheets when the LCD screen is assembled. It cannot be fixed unless you have a cleanroom at your disposal, otherwise you're just going to get the panel full of dust.

It is less noticeable if you turn down the backlight brightness or use a background color other than black on your desktop (duh).

For the blurriness - swap the VGA cables around and see if the problem moves with them. Or use DVI like a boss.

[randtek]

Re: Acer side glow

That symptom can also be caused by a panel that is slightly bent, which causes uneven brightness like that.