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| Thread ID: 61133 | 2005-08-25 18:58:00 | Yellow Monitor Tint - Cost to repair? | karrd (8782) | Press F1 |
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| 383688 | 2005-08-25 18:58:00 | Heya, This morning I turned on my CRT monitor to find a yellow tint covering the screen. I reseated the plugs, tried a new cable, tried the monitor on another computer and it's still yellow. Based on other threads regarding yellow screens, I'm thinking the only two possibilities left are 1) the pins not connecting properly (though I would've thought reseating them would've fixed this...perhaps they're bent...i'll check when I get home), OR theres a "dry solder joint on the blue gun"…or something. Anything else that could possible be wrong? And Does anyone know how much repairing a monitor problem such as this would cost? I could get a new Samsung 17” .20mm off Outpost for $100-130 USD... Thanks for the help! |
karrd (8782) | ||
| 383689 | 2005-08-25 20:36:00 | Welcome to PF1 Sounds like you are in the US, and from the price you quote you'd be better off buying a new monitor . You have done all the diagnostics needed to ensure that it is a monitor fault, and repair costs would be at least half of that price at best, so it is hardly worth the time and effort to get it fixed . If you can get a free quote go for it, but otherwise go shopping . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 383690 | 2005-08-25 21:48:00 | Have you just updated your graphics drivers, or what Billy said. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 383691 | 2005-08-26 01:15:00 | yellow tint may be due to the magnets inside the monitor out of alignment, happens if you REALLY bump the monitor, they can be readjusted, new monitor may be the best way, other than that check for a bent or missing pin in the plug on the montor.] | Skinnerjack (59) | ||
| 383692 | 2005-08-26 03:36:00 | yellow tint may be due to the magnets inside the monitor out of alignment, happens if you REALLY bump the monitor, they can be readjusted, new monitor may be the best way, other than that check for a bent or missing pin in the plug on the montor.] That is incorrect. Firstly the main purity and convergence magnets do not get "out of alignment" without human intervention inside the monitor, and if they do, the effect is separation of red green and blue colour images for convergence, and colour blotches for purity, not a change of colour for the entire screen. Similarly a bump hard enough to seriously affect colour usually means that the shadow mask is dislodged and that doesn't happen overnight either. You would have to drop the monitor on its face from a fair height to induce that effect. Small purity correction magnets are sometimes glued to the CRT bell to correct for minor purity errors cause by manufacturing tolerances, and if they fall off they cause colour tinting or fringing in the corners or at the edges of the screen. karrd has already indicated that he will be checking the pins on the monitor plug, but since it was a spontaneous failure when turned on in the morning, that is extremely unlikely. An electronic failure or a dead blue gun are the only real possibilities. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 383693 | 2005-09-01 00:41:00 | Just wanted to say thanks for all the feedback! :) I wound up just getting a new one yeah. I found this site just be searching for the yellow tint monitor problem. New Zelands a cool place, definately want to visit some day. |
karrd (8782) | ||
| 383694 | 2005-09-01 01:14:00 | We have a monitor that gets a yellow tinge, when it does this we give it a whack on the side and the colours return to normal, it's one of those 15 inch HP jobbie with the speakers mounted on the sides, what causes this (dry joint?) and is it easily fixable | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 383695 | 2005-09-01 01:17:00 | the shadow mask is dislodged and that doesn't happen overnight either. You would have to drop the monitor on its face from a fair height to induce that effect..............have to disagree here.........I've had this happen for no apparent resaon with older monitors and i can assure you I didn't drop the thing at all.......and as the last poster says......a good thump can fix it ......the last monitor I had that this happened to lasted about 500 thumps lol..... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 383696 | 2005-09-01 02:21:00 | Unlikely then for it to have been the shadowmask that was faulty Drcspy, more likely to be a dry joint somewhere internally. Once a shadowmask comes adrift, there is no way to fix it. They are very thin and require the supports to maintain their rigidity ,and hence the correct electron beam to colour dot "lineup". Banging them will not bounce them into alignment again unfortunately. |
pheonix (36) | ||
| 383697 | 2006-02-23 18:39:00 | Found this thread through google, yesterday suffered from pink tint to monitor (i.e. no green) and isolated the problem to within the monitor. Was feeling uneasy about the possibility of having to take the back off the monitor, and after reading the advice above gave the monitor a good whack on the side. Job done, normal service is resumed, cost of nothing! Thanks. | TreeHouse1977 (8783) | ||
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