F*cked up screen

[DJDJ]

So i got a brand new pc today and when i powered on the screen was effectively tinted in an extreme redish purple. Immediatly i unplugged my sub woofer and moved it, but the screen stayed messed up. Next i played around with the settings for the monitor itself,with the buttons on the front. Barely any difference.

So i tried to mess around with teh settings via propeties dialog boxes, but i cant look at the screen for more than a minute without my eyes hurting like mad.

 

So...i unplugged the monitor and tried the one on the other PC - the one i used before and am using now. That wen't f***ed up too, exactly the same. i tried the new VDU on the other computere - fine.

So it's NOT the monitor itself.

So could the graphics card (Nvidia geforce i think) be the cause? Perhaps a faulty socket?

Then i thought back to the subwoofer scenario. it looked simular, but more extreme. InterferencE?

directly below the graphics card, where the monitor plugs in (in the adjacent PCI slot) is my wireless network card. Could THAT be causing this?

 

Has anyone had this before? Any solutions?

 

Specs follow

 

Intel Pent 4 3 GHz processor

2GB RAM

Geforce graphics card (can't remember the exact one)

dvd/r drive blah blah blah...

[imheretostay]

Telling us exactly what monitor will help alot, and the graphics card might help too, though unlikely. Call the retailer where you got it from and get a refund, or talk to the manufacturer.

[DJDJ]

oh shoot. i knew there was soemthnig i forgot,

well i tried the package monitor all i culd find was "provview electrics" so maybe thats em. I tried my other one (unsure what make) and same thing happened. BOTH VDUs work fine on the other PC, si i'm convinced its the graphics card. I'll edit lead post with the exact specs when i get em

Tomorrow i'm going to try a move around, in case there's anything interfereing (which i doubt seeign as theres nothing there) and then phone up PC World where i got it as i'm sure its the tower unit, NOT the VDUs

[Wolf68k]

Try degaussing the monitor.

In the monitor's on screen display, assuming it has one, look for an icon that is a U-magnet with a line through it.

[DJDJ]

No such option

After a phone call with the support centre its looking to be the chenels of thr graphics card might be dead, ie no green.

Tomorrow a technicial will have a look, so hopefully well see then

 

[Wolf68k]

Unless the monitor is some really cheap POS or is old as hell, every monitor (not sure about LCDs but I don't they need one) has a degauss option more so monitors that have been made in the last 2 years or so.

 

Put the monitor on another computer and see if you get the same result.

 

 

 

...looking to be the chenels of thr graphics card...

Huh? Again please, in English.

[Cran.]

LCDs don't have Deguassing, as far as I know. My BenQ FP767 doesnt. It's for CRTs only I think.

[Wolf68k]

That's what I was thinking, sense CRTs suffer from strong magnettic fields around it....so don't bring a magnet from your refrigerator (let along a speaker) near your TV or CRT monitor.

[DJDJ]

Problem Solved!!!

 

It was a dodgey graphics card. New card in and it's fine...for now

[riccbhard]

Glad you got it fixed. In the future, to degauss a monitor that dosent have a degauss button, turn it off (and maybe unplug it) for a few minutes and plug it back in and turn it on. That initial pop on most monitors is it degaussing. Most do on power-up so you can't see it happen.

 

And, no, LCDs don't need degaussing.

 

If you've got a CRT with a tint from a mangnent that wont go away after degaussing, it's best to take it to a monitor repair shop (or probably a TV repair shop, whichever) and have them externally degauss it. That's more powerful than the degauss that's built in.