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Well, let me start off my saying I paid $1200 for this computer about 6 months ago. I turned it on yesterday and it was occasionally flashing this odd pink/green color on the monitor, but everything stayed up. Then about 5 minutes later, everything turned green, but I could still see everything. I shut it down to restart and when it was cutting off, the screen looked like one of those glass things with the multi-colored sand that changes colors shapes. I turned it back on and it was fine, but now, even as I type this, its occasionally flicking again.... sound like a major issue or something loose?
Less than a year old, I'm going to guess you have an LCD screen, thus there will be no degauss option.
Go into the menu (settings) of the monitor itself, and if those menus are also changing color then it is a monitor problem. If they are not, then it is external, cable/connections being the most likely.
Yeah its actually a HD display 19 inch monitor and its about 6 months old. It stopped doing it again... I am guessing something may be loose... or at least it had better be - I will be ticked if this thing is already breaking down! If it does it again, I will check what you said. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Asheville Native
Less than a year old, I'm going to guess you have an LCD screen, thus there will be no degauss option.
Go into the menu (settings) of the monitor itself, and if those menus are also changing color then it is a monitor problem. If they are not, then it is external, cable/connections being the most likely.
Yeah its actually a HD display 19 inch monitor and its about 6 months old. It stopped doing it again... I am guessing something may be loose... or at least it had better be - I will be ticked if this thing is already breaking down! If it does it again, I will check what you said. Thanks!
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the monitor is failing, better now than after the waranty runs out
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the monitor is failing, better now than after the waranty runs out
I'd have to say that that's exactly what's happening. If it was a connection issue, your screen would probably be flashing to a black screen. A driver problem would also cut to a black screen.
I've never had an issue like this with an LCD, although I had it with my first ever monitor (CRT), which was about 10 years old at the time. It was just going bad.
If you have a receipt, go see if you can trade it in. You may have gotten a damaged product.
i'm trying to sort out me dad's Monitor -- it flickers into green and pink at different times,.. then shuts down the computer and when it reboots there is no signal at all -- until i leave it off for a few minutes then it comes back...
THE OLD TRICK of giving the PC a good WHACK actually solved it , momentarily,.. it came back a little later and then did the black-screen/reboot trick... but i left it off and now its been oK.... I WHACKED it gently at first around where the video card was,... and it nearly fixed it -- then WHACKED it bit harder (not mentally hard) and it fixed the prob....
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