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nishatalitha ([personal profile] nishatalitha) wrote2006-08-28 05:56 pm
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Cry for help

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.

[identity profile] nishatalitha.livejournal.com 2006-08-28 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] jessikast 2006-08-28 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure what degaussing is either, but unpluggin from power supply might help.

[identity profile] nishatalitha.livejournal.com 2006-08-28 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
I'll try that later tonight.

[identity profile] stephanie-pegg.livejournal.com 2006-08-28 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
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".

[identity profile] nishatalitha.livejournal.com 2006-08-28 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
I couldn't find anything that said degauss. And completely unplugging the monitor didn't work either.

[identity profile] repton-infinity.livejournal.com 2006-08-28 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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 :-)