1 & 1/4 cms. is to much.

Set up and exchange, see if the new stand is better and if so just keep the stand and return the defective one. Dell will most likely send a new or refurbed entire package, just swap out what you want.

I went thru 8 240'7's to get three excellent panels and stands.

All three of mine run out only one tenth of a centimeter now. Some were as bad as .7 cms.

Some will stick by doing the grab and rotate method but if they don't exchange it.

I have the same issue with the 2 I got a couple weeks ago... they both lean to the right.
debating on how much effort I can justify putting into this.

Both my 2407s (A03) also have the banding issue.

Shouldn't be any banding in Desktop mode. 3 A03's no banding in desktop mode and very little in Multimedia, some of the first AO3's released.

Interesting, I see other models and brands of LCD's that didn't have banding when released and now some are showing up with banding.

I wrote about the manufacturing process itself can have panels with banding in the same model run and selection in QC can effect this.

Posted this before:
LCD vertical banding is a flaw that can occur in the manufacturing process of the LCD panels themselves, and some LCD panels will tend to manifest it more noticeably than others. The panels that cause the most visible problems are usually weeded out in the vendor's quality control process.
However, those that create just a hint of banding often pass through QC, since it is prohibitively expensive to discard all parts that exhibit flaws which may have no practical impact on picture quality.

So, we end up with a situation in which some LCD panels, even within a given production run on one model, will have no banding at all, some may have a hint of it that does not rise to the level of a significant issue, and some may have a more visible problem that really does impair the enjoyment of the viewing experience. In the latter case, sometimes the problem can be mitigated with internal adjustments made by the dealer or vendor service departments, and sometimes the LCD panels or the entire unit need to be replaced.

and this one

Old Post:
"In regards to minor banding issues, since in the 2407 A03’s it’s 99.9% gone for most of us:

I remember one post here,
1. Person stated after changing the DVI cable to a different DVI cable that came with a different manufacturers LCD the banding was gone.
What I’m getting at, does anyone think a better-insulated DVI cable may reduce minor banding?

2. Another post.
Banding came back in A03. After switching DVI outs on the video card banding seem to be gone with the other output, but then returned. That would be an intermittent problem. Any ideas here? This actually worked for Me.

3. Another post: After switching to a 7600GS video card from a 6800GT the banding was gone.

4. Do you think KVM switches cause minor banding because of the multiple inputs and outputs thus creating some sort of noise leak or residence in the line creating minor banding?

5. Changing gamma settings in the video control panel for nVidia drivers will create banding in Desktop mode; I have to leave my gamma setting at 1.0 for the best results. It's not really an issue because gamma at 1.0 looks the best in applications and content.

6. The Dell 2407 monitor driver from Dell’s website, not from the CD, with the color profile attached to it, causes banding as stated by a poster in that thread.
Custom color profiles created in Photoshop can cause banding.

7. Compressed files.
I see a little banding in compressed DVD VOB's video captured to MPEG 2 and also in
AVI SD Raw 28,000 kbps rendered to 8,000 kbps MPEG 2 Master Quality, in the later it shows up in gray sky gradients but it's minor and you really have to know what you are looking for. If I increase gamma settings on these files, banding is very much more noticeable, but that would not be desired look anyway.

Divx files may show some, I still need to check, anybody have any input in regards to Divx or Xvid files that are not overly compressed.

Anyone know of any tried and proved fixes you have used to correct minor banding that may have been video card or other related that was not solely the monitor. Have you ever seen minor banding go away and return at all?


Also color profiles can cause banding in some cases need Microsoft color profile manager to correct this issue.