Displays NEC 26" IPS Monitor for £100 too good to be true? Evidently not!

I got that working and my hours are very much the same as your's about 1790. But even the factory preset didnt give me my resolution back!

It works fine in analogue mode


EDIT: HA HA its back! not sure what did it but got there in the end!

 

2100 hours use.

 

928 hours

My favourite feature is the ability to change the colour and brightness of the power LED

 

The LED colour choice is killer... this could actually be a gaming monitor after all!

Even 2000-odd hours is very conservative for a pro grade screen that I'd expect to have seen a lot more use, especially considering the age of these units. I'm hoping to calibrate this soon (I have a colourimeter coming in the post) but I'm running the brightness at 0% and I really don't think it'll need to be much brighter to hit the target 120cd/m2. The backlight has tons of life left in it, at least in terms of brightness.

 

I find mine makes a very audible hum when below about 50% brightness! its slightly driving me crazy. ha ha

 

Well, mine turned up!

Finding the physical size a bit odd - it's supposed to be a 25.5" panel, yet it is physically larger than my 27" Apple display. Confusing!

Spent a good few hours calibrating and getting it set up properly - and I must say, it displays DICOM images rather nicely. Just wish it did grayscale!

 

Yeah I've just been reading about this: there was a widespread problem of backlight inverter noise with this monitor in particular; some people noticed an improvement running it through a 110v transformer (as the problem seemed peculiar to European users) however this did not solve the problem for everybody. The humming/buzzing was very hit-and-miss though, and evidently still is... I seem to have gotten lucky and don't get any noise at any brightness setting.

Do you get the hum all the way down to 0% brightness? If you calibrate the monitor that's almost certainly what brightness it'll need to be at.

 

Actually, run in to a problem with SpectraView It says that it cannot communicate with the monitor - any ideas? I read that it might be due to NVIDIA's drivers, but the document stating that is pretty old (refers to drivers 260.xx)

EDIT: Now also stuck at 1280x720!

 

Cie, Spectraview works for me on the latest drivers. try going into the advanced menu (power off then power on with input held down, then press menu) and going to the very end page with the serial number on.

Pressing Down and Select disables specraview pressing Up and select enables it.


LennyRhys, if it was up to me I would run it down at 0 as its super bright but its far too loud. Might open it up and have a look at the backlight inverter.

 

Tried the advanced menu trick, but SpectraView is still not working Going to try reinstalling the NVIDIA drivers and a restart to see if that helps.

 

You could also try installing the correct monitor driver from the NEC site for the Lcd2690...

Also are you using dvi-d? It works on both so it shouldn't matter.

 

I'm using DIV-I currently, might see if a port swap helps, but it was running fine at 1920x1200 before I updated my GPU drivers.

EDIT: Bizarrely a swap to DVI-D got me back to 1920x1200 - and also made SpectraView work!

1525.9 hour usage

 

Did you calibrate it using Spectraview II? Even though it's not certified as a medical grade monochrome display, the 262 is DICOM compliant if the 12-bit LUT is used for calibration (although the manual does say that the 262 should not be used for primary diagnosis). In the Spectraview software there are two calibration options in the Edit>Preferences...>Calibration submenu which give you a choice between "Maximum Contrast Ratio" and "Best grayscale color tracking".

 

There's actually a greyscale mode in the Advanced Menu I spotted which I'm going to give a whirl, as greyscale monitors are the de facto standard for radiography imaging (XR, CT, MRI). I've done a rough and ready calibration with SpectraView II, but need to borrow a better spectrometer really.

As for the whole medical certification thing, it's a load of nonsense. Most diagnosis is done on wards via a 17" Dell (as in, the one sold to offices) that hasn't been anywhere near a calibration tool in its life. Radiologists have the fancy monitors, nobody else!

 

but does it support DHCP?

 

Yep, though you may need to enable it in the menu.

 

I read this and spent a few moments trying to work out why it would be network connected, then the penny dropped. As you were...

 

I think they meant HDCP

 

Mine also limited it's resolution following a bit of messing with two monitors - swapping the port on the monitor seemed to fix it!

 

i think so to , but i got to say i got one in front of me and my dicks hard!
if ya can i would get one photography is ok on this.
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