Cry for help

[nishatalitha]

So for some reason my monitor has decided to go a lurid greeny yellow colour with more than a slight resemblence to a fluro combination of both the above. There's something else I could compare it to, but I don't think I will.

I've had this before with a previous monitor (it went purple), and it's really really annoying. The purple was easier on the eyes, and this is just disturbing.

Does anyone have any idea what might fix it? I swear the only thing I've done to this machine recently has been uninstall and reinstall blutooth, which shouldn't have done a damn thing.

Comments

[jessikast]

Have you tried degaussing it?

[scottique.livejournal.com]

Hey, you stole my single possibly-useful suggestion! I'm completely useless, now that you've stepped in. Bah.

:-D

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

I hit it. Does that count?

[jessikast]

Um....not really. :-)

Part of my tv screen went green once, and it needed degaussing. You can do fancy thing with magnets, but for me, unplugging it solved th problem.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Unplugging it from the computer or what? I don't even know what degaussing is. I think degussing has something to do with Dea Gauss, an accountant from Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liadan series.

[jessikast]

I'm not sure what degaussing is either, but unpluggin from power supply might help.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

I'll try that later tonight.

[stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com]

Some monitors will have buttons just under the screen bit which will let you adjust brightness and contrast and so forth. One of the options in there will probably by "Degauss".

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

I couldn't find anything that said degauss. And completely unplugging the monitor didn't work either.

[repton-infinity.livejournal.com]

You normally get a "bong" type noise when you degauss. If you can't do it yourself, you could borrow someone else's monitor, sit that next to your one, and degauss it instead :-)

[repton-infinity.livejournal.com]

I had a monitor, many years ago. The red gun started to fail.

You know? I mean, I don't really, I'm not a hardware guy. But pixels on your screen are made up of red, green, and blue. The explanation I was given is that there is an electron gun for each colour. The guns sit at the back of the crt and scan across the screen.

Anyway, my monitor had no red. This turned out not to be a major problem, since there wasn't too much pure red in what I was doing (using linux and calling BBSs, as I recall).

A little later (half a year, maybe?), the green gun went as well. Having a monitor that can only display blue was a bit tough.

Anyway, I observed that it was temperature-dependent: on warm days, or days where I put the heater on before turning the monitor on, I might have all my colours. Or, I could run it for a while, and then (once it had warmed up), thump it a few times to get the other colours back.

In the end, the guns were too weak to reach the top and bottom quarters of the screen, so the whole picture was compressed into the middle bit. And it was only blue. That was when we finally decided to get rid of it...

I don't know if this is relevent to your problem; I just felt like telling the story :-)