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| Thread ID: 32232 | 2003-04-12 23:33:00 | monitor shows purple | agent (30) | Press F1 |
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| 135377 | 2003-04-12 23:33:00 | Yes, my monitor is now showing everything with a pinky-purple tint. It flashed three times yesterday, once for about two seconds, and this morning when I turned the monitor on... *POOF* everything is purple. Left it on overnight downloading, but I really don't think that makes a difference. Thought that it might be some moisture in the pins on the cable, but, lo and behold, after unplugging the cable at both ends twice, trying to clear the pins, and blowing on them to clear any possible dust, everything is still permanently purple. Degaussed the monitor a few times, still the same. I don't have access to any other monitors or monitor cables to test out at the moment, so I hope it's only the cable and not the screen. As a side note, my cat jumps up on the computer desk often to get onto the kitchen bench. Don't think it matters, but maybe all that bumping... |
agent (30) | ||
| 135378 | 2003-04-13 00:43:00 | Sorry agent, sounds like a monitor fault to me. Go to the monitor test page in my FAQ and see if you get any green showing on screen. If you don't, likely causes in ascending order of seriousness are: 1) CRT base not plugged onto the back of the CRT properly. 2) Dry/broken joints on the CRT base PC board 3) Blown driver transistors/other electronic cause 4) Internal failure in the CRT However, the gods may yet smile upon you, so do try another monitor if you can, or take your monitor to another computer somewhere. Cheers Billy 8-{) [b][pre]P.S. Don't blame the cat unless the monitor smells a little funny. Cat pee is the elixir of death for electronics, and for some strange reason, cats like to pee in TVs and monitors :( |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 135379 | 2003-04-13 05:38:00 | I had a similar problem last year. The monitor started being purple occasionally, but eventually got very bad. It would start up purple, and eventually go away after about 30 mins. It finally decided that it would stay purple all the time, so I replaced it. I don't think you'll have too much luck fixing it, but it's worth a try if you know anybody in that particular field. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 135380 | 2003-04-13 09:19:00 | I had a monitor thant went purple. I think it got left next to a REALLY BIG magnet. (like the size of a reem of paper) Sold it to somebody for 30 buck swho didnt care about the colour. :) |
superOman (745) | ||
| 135381 | 2003-04-13 09:30:00 | >I think it got left next to a REALLY BIG magnet. don't forget speakers are magnits it may be 1 pin that happened to my monitor @ work 1 pin was bent |
sc0ut (2899) | ||
| 135382 | 2003-04-13 10:16:00 | Hope it wasn't a good one Peter, you could have had that fixed in a few seconds by manual degaussing. Years ago I dealt with a shipment of colour TVs that had been transported by rail and must have spent some time with a diesel-electric loco idling on the adjacent track (or similar high fields source). They were thoroughly magnetised and it took a super degaussing ring to fix them. A normal TV degaussing wand got them close, but couldn't remove the final residual magnetism. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 135383 | 2005-04-10 07:00:00 | Ive had my monitor for about 2 years and it started to do a purple pink screen thing yesterday (4-9-05) and I found out thats its the wire thats plugs into the videocard, it seems if I move a certain part of the wire the purple screen goes away and I have my vivid colors back like normal..so I think I will get my dad to open that area of the wire and see if he can attach the wires better together :thumbs: | megazero (3591) | ||
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