Members LiveMusic Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 Old Dell 4100 desktop, winxp, 19" monitor (old style)... the screen goes from normal to a lighter tint, kind of greenish. I think I have even seen another tint or two until it settles down to the greenish tint. It is cycling back and forth over a few minutes. It will go back to normal but then cycle back to greenish. It just started this today. Any clue? Is the monitor dying or is this a virus or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members daklander Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 Demagnitize it. If the problem still occurs you're starting to lose the color drivers in the monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LiveMusic Posted December 3, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 How do you demagnetize? I read something about a degausse button but I don't see one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted December 3, 2007 Members Share Posted December 3, 2007 If the tint changes while you watch degaussing won't do any good - - it is some part (or connection) failing in the video drive circuits. One of the 3 colors (red, green or blue) is maxing out intermittently, from what it sounds like... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LiveMusic Posted December 5, 2007 Author Members Share Posted December 5, 2007 It's been locked up in greenish mode since. We never did find a degauss button. My bro contacted his tech guy who bought these monitors years ago. He said give it a good rap on the side. It worked. Hope it stays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elsongs Posted December 5, 2007 Members Share Posted December 5, 2007 Did you check to see if your video connector is loose? If it's predominantly red, green or blue then that means that the other colors' signals are not going through. Make sure your video cable is tightly connected on both ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zeronyne Posted December 8, 2007 Members Share Posted December 8, 2007 I would concur that you may want to try a new cable before anything else, of course, since a VGA cable is roughly $30.00 at a retail store, and a new 1280X960 LCD monitor is around $169.00.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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