) can help me out here. I've got an old Dell E248WFP that I've been happy with for a while. Recently I found that my calibration was a bit off and went to adjust it. It's now infinitely better than it was and is way more color-accurate for just about everything I do... but in fixing the calibration I discovered an actual defect in my monitor. It's probably due to age and not a factory defect, but I'm honestly not sure.The thing is, the CCFL on top and the CCFL on the bottom aren't synchronized. The top of the screen is just marginally darker than the bottom. In most situations you don't notice it, but if for instance I open my bookmarks menu in Firefox I can tell that the top of the menu is a dark grey whereas the bottom is a whitish-grey. There is a vertical color shift due to a mismatch in illumination.
I am ready to just concede that this monitor is old and that I really should get an IPS panel to replace it, but just in case someone's had experience with this problem and knows of a relatively simple way to fix it I'm all ears.
