S273HL monitor via HDMI: Washed out colours

cmaesing

I have an Acer S273HL monitor. It used to work wonderfully for many years with my old laptop via VGA connector.

 

My new laptop's own display also works perfectly. No issues there.

 

However, when I attach my new laptop to the same Acer S273HL monitor via HDMI cable, the colours look very washed out. Black is only grey, for example. When having both monitors on parallely (new laptop's own monitor + the S273HL), I can clearly see the difference: The laptop's own monitor shows black as black, while the S273HL shows it as grey.

 

I have played with the Acer' own settings, but to no avail: The washed out colour scheme remains.

 

My guess is that it is (1) either a driver issue, or (2) the HDMI port on my laptop is not yet enabled.

 

@ (1): I did even go to acer.com and downloaded the driver for this monitor. However, when I access the device manager, this monitor is not even showing! All I see is Generic PnP under the monitor section, i.e. the laptop's internal monitor.

 

@ (2): How would I enable the HDMI port on my laptop?

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Am running W7 64.

 

Thanks for any hint or advice!

-Justin

cmaesing,

 

Check under optional updates and see if the monitor drivers are found by Microsoft and install them.

 

If you ever made any manual adjustments to the monitor using the OSD when using VGA, you may need to reset the monitor to defaults itself. Those settings are not usually accessible using a digital connection, only analog.

 

Your HDMI port is enabled, otherwise you would not be able to see anything on the monitor itself when it's plugged in.