HP Promo LE2001W 20INCH Wide LCD Monitor.

I am an IT specialist at a school and we have lots of these. The review above talks about the problem where the screen will go black and you need to put a custom color setting into effect in order to get the display to work. We have had this happen to many of these monitors. Also, when I called HP and got them warrantied, one of the replacements had the same problem. Seems to be something wrong with a batch of these monitors.

Using two of these for a dual-monitor development workstation, I was somewhat shocked that they both have the same problem: they don't display white.

Instead, they display a pale, "glacier ice" blue. There is obviously something wrong with these...but the fact that BOTH monitors have the same problem is certainly a cause for concern - it's not that I simply received a bad one.

Basically what happens: the longer the monitor is on, the more blue comes into the screen (it never starts out at true white, though.) Once it hits a certain threshold, the OSD for "Color" is grayed out/disabled, so you can't even manually tweak it. Instead, you need to "Reset" it, which puts it back to the default of 9300K color mode, which displays solid black...or nothing at all. Then, still going through the OSD, after the Reset is done, the "Color" option comes back, and you have to set the colors manually. None of the presets display anything; you have to set them...Read more

I am very pleased with the purchase of the LE2001w. This is part of HP's "business" line of monitors, which do not have built-in speakers. That's one of the reasons I chose it because I already have speakers and no need to pay more for a monitor with speakers. It was very easy to set up and adjust, though very little adjustment was necessary. I ended up uninstalling the software that allows you to make adjustment via an on-screen utility, as it ate up some memory needlessly, running constantly in the background (tray). It's on the installation CD if you ever want to re-install it. Generally you don't need to make adjustments on-going, but if you do, there are buttons on the front of the monitor that facilitate that. Color, brightness, and everything about the look of this monitor is just fine. No complaints.