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yeah. its definately your monitor. looks fine here too.
i've got a monitor at work that does some funky stuff. what exactly does it look like? what kind of monitor is it? we MAY be able to trouble shoot this. but i doubt it.
this may be the time to change monitors.
You may want to check your settings for your video card (go to Control Panel | Display | Settings | Advanced). It looks like your balance is off, and if it's not hardware related, it's most likely the video adapter settings. You should be able to change the color balance, as well as the gamma levels (to darken it a bit). Have you tried the monitor on another computer to see if it works there?
AJ
Everything is exxadurated on my screen... Everything is brighter than normal.... I have no idea what happened though, I was cooking me dinner when I came back my monitor was off and when i turned it on it was fecked up
The monitor is a Gateway EV700
If your monitor turned off (is it set to go to sleep?) it may be that it overheated. I had a problem simliar to this at one of my client's offices. The monitor was in direct sunlight most of the day, and after a while, it just started to turn off, and when it was turned back on the colors were messed up. You can try switching off the monitor, leaving it off for a few minutes and turning it back on to see if the colors correct themselves. Otherwise, you may want to leave it off (and unplugged, just in case) over night and see if the problems arise again tomorrow. If so, you either need to replace your monitor or, as I suggested above, change some video adapter settings.
AJ
ok now i understand your problem :)
Iwould do as avdven sugests plus i would turn the monitors brightnes and contrast all the way
down then bring them up slowly to see if there is no improvement
this looks like a ballance problem
Did you switch the comp off and then on again this does help sometimes
Mike
i think its more than a balance problem. otherwise his monitro wouldnt have just switched off like that. and come back with crazy colors... um ,what did you eat for dinner... so i think it is probably a monitor problem. if your scan proggies do nt come up with any changes, then it will be your monitor. assuming you've done the devices check and the video card settings adven talked about.
i'm going to stick with him also when he says just leave it off for a while but huh as i look you are offline so you might be doing that now... ok.
If your monitor continues this effect after unpugging it and letting it cool, then it is most likely an older monitor, (or defective) and has a bad filter capacitor in the video circuit. This would be a good lesson in component level circuit diagnostics....I might find a tut in this, hmmmm
Do you have plenty of ventalation around it? I can fix this....lol
I've done my fair share of tv and monitor repair and I can tell you that aeallison is
close to correct. I find that the two most common problems found in a defective
monitor are electrolytic caps, and solder joints "gone south" ..
sometimes, you can be lucky enough to find a cap "buldged out" (or top blown off,
or buldged up) .. i.e. a visual inspection never hurts..
the second common problem.. with solder joints appearing on the main board or the
board on the yoke of the tube, are harder to spot.. a bad solder joint will appear grayish/
whiteish.. (of course, on the main board, you generally have to take it out.
if heat is a cause, or part of the symptom leading to the fault.. often a can of "freeze spray"
will help out to locate the area that is flakey..
also, it's always good if you take apart your monitor to clean off dust with a 1 inch (dry,lol)
paintbrush and a vacuum to suck up what you stir up.
and don't forget, sci.electronics.repair on usenet is always a good source of info.
If you do plan to take your monitor apart make sure you know what the hell your doing because the capacitors can still have enough stored voltage to kill you even after its been unplugged for several hours. If the colors are screwed up in POST it’s most likely the monitor, try it on another computer just to make sure though. Once I had a monitor that had a similar problem and I fixed it by giving it a good smack every once and a while but in the end the problem got progressively worse until I found my self smacking it every 5 minutes.
sumdumguy you cover an issue I forgot, thats why I mentioned old monitor, but correct you are on the loose solder connections, also the electrolytics in some of your real old monitors the newer types use the smaller tantalum caps that I sometimes replace with electrolytics, the cap I had in mind is bi-polar about 1 to 10mfd also a loose G2 pin off of the CRT will cause it to "bloom", if this condition is allowed to persist it will damage other circuits and the CRT...assuming it is "a" condition.