PureZero Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Hey guys. The last few days my monitor have been turning like from wthite to yellow form time to time. is it my monitor or something thats about to die? Edit: what i meen to say is, where i know it should be white and usually is, suddenly turns yellow for a few sec, then back to white. But i guess you guys understod that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 tweak your VGA cable, it might well be a loose cable either at the VGA plug end or the monitor end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 I'm with moonlit on this one. Had a similar problem, and when I unplugged the cable and took a closer look at the connector I found that one of the pins was all bent out of shape, actually pressing against another pin. It wouldn't be that much of a stretch of the imagination to assume a break in the cable itself can yield the same effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 seconed / thrided with Moonlit / cooper, im going with its the cable, ive had many of the same issues, 400 computers all with CRT's all about 4yrs old, u get this easly. Ive found it to be, when the cable is stationed in a bent possition for say a year, then abruptly moved, casuing the leads to break inside the cable. Though ive also found an easy cheap solution, next time it goes yellow, wiggle the cable about, if it flicks yellow and white, then start applining preasure to sections of the cable, (sometimes a fair amount) there should be a section (commonly near the monitor end) that when preasure is applied the Monitor will turn white, once this is found, place a cable tie around the borked section and tighten. this is worked for me many of times, for a correct method of fixing this problem is to replace the VGA lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 donate your monitor to the museum :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Anyone who remembers the really old CRT's with a actual button on the front to make the picture green? Those were the days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoaliendog Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I fourth checking the cable. Also is there any large magnets near or around the monitor, like a sub woofer. That'll also do it (usually only when the bass hits). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Anyone who remembers the really old CRT's with a actual button on the front to make the picture green? Those were the days! Heck yeah! I remember using those on the Acorns back then, but I believe some one the Amiga compatible monitors did that... and way back when, the PC monitors *only* did green (or amber). :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 my old monitor used to do that, i just left it on for a couple of days and it fixed its self Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W4RP3D Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 Anyone who remembers the really old CRT's with a actual button on the front to make the picture green? Those were the days! Heck yeah! I remember using those on the Acorns back then, but I believe some one the Amiga compatible monitors did that... and way back when, the PC monitors *only* did green (or amber). :D I got given a very old laptop that had been stuck up in someones loft for more years than proberbly ive lived (18). When i say laptop i mean a "portable desktop" its the size of a small suit case, weighs a tonne, has a full keyborad which can be taken out and is the size of a normal "non-laptop" keyboard, has no HDD (runs off of the old floppy disc what are they 7") . That has a amber screen which is about 6" by 4". Best of all its got an inbult fully working dotmatrix printer on the back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 At least its theft proof! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanda333 Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 i never had a monitor that you could trun green with a button, but i had one that turned green on its own and you had to slap it to make it display the colors proporly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PureZero Posted April 22, 2007 Author Share Posted April 22, 2007 Well seems like you guys are right, thanks. :) Heh my Crt aint That old :P just had it for like 3 years now, just havent gotten around to buying a new one yet, kinda. But then again everything else have been upgraded on this computer, so maybe its time for that to. We will see, maybe ill get myself a new one :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanda333 Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 if you do get a new one, look into lcd's the most common ones are made with a TN+ film matrix (or something along those lines, cant remember the exact technical name) these lcd's have the best response time (which is so good these days that you really cant notice a difference between it and a CRT, if you do, then you need to do a double blind test because your predjudices are convincing you its slower, because at 2-8ms we really dont have the ability to actually notice any response time lag)they are also becoming so cheap that it is pointless to get a CRT, unless you need vertical viewing angles(becaus the horizontal angles are fine) and absolutly perfect color reproduction (although models with LED backlight solve this.) its really almost pointless to use a CRT these days. youll just break your back trying to lift the CRT anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nite_monkey Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 I have a 17" crt that is going out, I know this because I have the brightness maxed on it, and I had to change the settings in the nvidia menu to make it brighter, but I don't have the money to buy myself a new lcd monitor. . . or crt for that matter, though I would like to get two lcd monitors, because I am using a dual view setup, and lcd monitors work better, because I have heard that if you put two crt monitors together they will mess each other up, I havn't taken the time to find out, I just leave them really far apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 I have a 17" crt that is going out, I know this because I have the brightness maxed on it, and I had to change the settings in the nvidia menu to make it brighter, but I don't have the money to buy myself a new lcd monitor. . . or crt for that matter, though I would like to get two lcd monitors, because I am using a dual view setup, and lcd monitors work better, because I have heard that if you put two crt monitors together they will mess each other up, I havn't taken the time to find out, I just leave them really far apart. They won't mess each other up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nophix Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Anyone who remembers the really old CRT's with a actual button on the front to make the picture green? Those were the days! Seriously, I had an old 286 that was always green. Same thing as the amber ones, but green instead. Never saw another one. I should add, this was an UPGRADE from my badass Tandy Color Computer III with a wopping 128k of memory!! Both systems were bought new by my parents, and wound up being mine shortly after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nite_monkey Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 They won't mess each other up. sweet, so I can put them right against each other like hak5 is doing, and they won't ever mess up, eccept when the 17" one goes out? thanks horza. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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