Saturday, August 04, 2007

Vista photo viewer yellow tint

I have faced this strange issue after running a windows update on my Samsung monitor driver.
All the photos in Windows Photo Viewer application had a yellow tint. The whole work area of the application was yellowish, so the photo seemed darker and kind of sepia-style.

The very first google result showed that I am so far not the first one to get these kinds of problems. As a matter of fact, Photoshop CS2 and CS3 say that the color profile that comes with the Samsung driver seems to be corrupt and do not use it at all.

The resolution to the problem is to set the sRGB IEC61966-2.1 color profile as default and delete the Samsung one (you can leave it there, but it's defective, so why bother keeping it?).

Thursday, August 02, 2007

ASUS P5B Deluxe BIOS flash


I'm pretty screwed actually, as I just fucked up my BIOS. ASUS WinFlash is known to be faulty when updating very old bioses to new ones. So It erased my EEPROM, flashed it, but failed to verify. Now it doesn't recognise the BIOS as an ASUS one.

There are loads of posts about this on enthusiast forums with most people RMAing their mobos. So basically, I'm only fine until the next reboot, because my mobo does not have a BIOS atm.

I hope ASUS CrashFree BIOS works fine or else I'll have to disassemble the whole system and go try to get some warranty.

So, \Fenix, don't try WinFlash at home xD