Ok, I was away for about 20 minutes and when I come back my monitors colors are all messed up.... I dont think its the video card because the colors are messed up in my monitors POST... Check out the screen shot below to see what im talking about...
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Ok, I was away for about 20 minutes and when I come back my monitors colors are all messed up.... I dont think its the video card because the colors are messed up in my monitors POST... Check out the screen shot below to see what im talking about...
The colors in the .jpg you uploaded looked fine to me, which kind of lends credence to the 'fecked up' moniter theory. No magnetic sources nearby? Any of the neighbors been testing small tactical nukes?
I have to agree with allenb. Besides your gamma settings of your video card being set to brightly (all of the colors look faded because they're set to high), the picture looks absolutely fine. It must be your monitor. Is it a new monitor or an old one? Check to make sure that no pins are bent on the connector (I've had that happen before) and that the monitor is properly plugged in. If that doesn't do it, do as allenb suggested, and check for any large magnetic sources which may cause disruption. Good luck.
AJ
Looks fine to me :)
Colors seem to be a bit washed out when compared to mine but otherwise
Allenb forget about the small nuke's he shoud check if they are not playing with a small EMP device ;)
Regards
Mike
Weird.... Hes a screenshot of my white backround.... If this looks fine to everyone else then there is something wrong with my monitor =(
@mike and avdven:
The only magnet close to ym monitor (within 5 feet) is my woofer... And it never caused problems before
Still looks fine but washed out
Regards
Mike
What do you mean washed out?
Doesn't look washed out to me....looks just fine....what does the white screen look like to you?
Faded not sharp and bright;)
Can you maybe describe what you see i.e wavey lines, blocks of color
Regards
Mike
The white looks a little purple and the orange on AO and the blue on top of the IE Bar is way to bright
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.
once again you're right, aeallison.. and ,my bad, bi-polars can be a problem too.
I never saw many problems with tantalum caps.. but that may just have been
my luck of the draw.
cwk9.. none of the stored capacitive charges can kill you..
I've been zapped by the charge of the storage off the crt (yes, it acts as a cap)
and the worst damage is caused by when your elbow hits something as a reaction
to getting hit... 18-30kv.. but it don't have any sustained current flow.
as a precaution.. stick a long screwdriver under the hi-voltage lead cap to the crt
and discharge to chasis.
http://www.pccomputernotes.com/esd/esd.htm
I bet the chances are low but better safe than dead.Quote:
WARNING:
There are capacitors inside a computer's monitor and power supply that store enough electricity to stop your heart, even when they are unplugged. You should not be grounded if you are working inside a monitor or a power supply.
But then, you shouldn't even open a monitor or a power supply unless you know what you're doing.
question... Do you run Quake 2 or 3? When I first got Quake 3 I would get a problem similar to what you discribed when i would shut the game down incorrectly, something about the opengl drivers, could go on for weeks even if i restarted... it fixxed itself when i started quake3 and shut it down correctly... stopped hapenning all together when i installed wicked gl... probably just talkin out of my arse, but its something to think about...
actually, capacitors in a monitor coupled with the Cathode Ray Tube itself carry an electrolytic discharge with enough voltage to kill you (over 120,000 volts if i remember correctly) for more than 20 years after a monitor is unplugged... all this according to my Net Tech teacher Mr. King. Either way, you should definitely know what you're doing before even thinking about opening up a monitor, plugged in or not, it is still the most potentially dangerous peice of equipment you'll work with in this field.Quote:
cwk9
the capacitors can still have enough stored voltage to kill you even after its been unplugged for several hours.
haven't found a voltage that high in a monitor YET..Quote:
over 120,000 volts if i remember correctly) for more than 20 years after a monitor is unplugged...
Have found 36KV off a CRT..
The main DC filter Cap (In AUS) can store 400V +.. IF it is Opencircuited from the rest of the PSU.. This will stop yer heart.. Throw you across the room, turn off the eyes for a few minutes (that is if you were lucky like me.. and someone was able to get the the tick back in ticker)..
The volts Jolt.. its the Amps that plant..
Now to Acids Problem..
Please do the inspections with the Power OFF and disconnected from the Monitor..Please..
All of the sujestions are worth a try. I would also be checking around the Hi-Voltage unit (EHT) This device will have a couple of cables running up to the Tube, one to a Big Cup on the tube itself, the other to the circuit board at the back of the CRT.. Certainly check the Caps for signs of "distress" but check the underside for irregular solder on the Pins..
These symptoms could describe another 15 or so causes..
see how ya go..
Oh and why is the Screen shot a bit fuzzy?
It is a compressed image.. the resolution will not be a hi as the original screen resolution..
detail is lost in the compression.. ..
Cheers
Sup i know what the problem well i think it i do. When i was playing around with windowx xp in the display properties. If you left click on your desktop the display properties will come up. Go to the appereance tab and click on effects make sure that the method of smooth edges of screen fonts is Standard NOT clear type. Hopefully i helped :^)
xtcy: Just for your information, the clear type font smoothing only affects the fonts, causing them to appear fuzzy if your display does not support ClearType. It shouldn't affect the colors as Ac1d is describing. (btw: Also, you have to right click on the desktop, not left click to get to the display properties).
AJ
/me wonders why ac1dsp3ctrum hasn't come back here to comment further, when I see he's online right now.
I'm sure that neither of those are true. And I'll say.. it might cause a "ticker" to stop,Quote:
over 120,000 volts if i remember correctly) for more than 20 years after a monitor is unplugged...
if you were standing in a pool of water. I've been hit by it.. and all I got was a sore elbow.
and as long as I'm straying OT.. there was an old time electrician I knew that would wet
two fingers, and put them across 240vac or 480vac and would live to tell you what voltage
it was.. as long as the path to doesn't pass thru your "ticker" you're ok.
Und3rtak3r is right, where i read it actually said 12,000 v, not 120,000... my bad..
PS. The GL problem with Quake 3 is a definite possibility, i checked it on my Brother-in-law's system, who also has a Savage videocard, (like spectrum's) on an XP system. alt/tabbing out of quake 3 and ending the process thu task manager caused the colors on his system to seem brighter and grainier, both of which looked normal when a screenshot was viewed from my system, changing the display settings did nothing, nor did restarting. It was fixed when i started up quake3 again and shut it down thru the game's gui. It is not necessarily quake3, could be any game using the same or similar engine. he says the screen first showed these symptoms when he came back from getting a snack, did he perhaps get this snack afterplaying a game? if so, i would suggest starting up that game and shutting it down normally. if not, forget it, i dont know what I'm talking about.
Ok guys, no need to poist anymore... I just bought a new monitor