Monitor takes a d**p. Please advise.

[Jungmann]

Turn on the puter this a.m., the monitor screen has a bluish overlay. Puter works fine, but screen is like looking through blue plastic. I mess with monitor settings--after a while, something inside it crackles and the blue fades a bit. Later, another crackle and the colors are fine, nominal.

This a.m., boot up, same blue thing.

I know the troubleshoot is to put another monitor on and see if it reproduces, but I don't have another monitor, and in the words of the immortal Janis Joplin

"My friends all have laptops
I must make amends..."

Monitor is Sony 17" Trinitron about seven years old.

I know: buy a flat screen, noob. But is there any diagnostic in Windows I can use to make sure the problem's in the monitor before I plunk down for a new one?

Thanks all,

[Jungmann]

Turn on the puter this a.m., the monitor screen has a bluish overlay. Puter works fine, but screen is like looking through blue plastic. I mess with monitor settings--after a while, something inside it crackles and the blue fades a bit. Later, another crackle and the colors are fine, nominal.

This a.m., boot up, same blue thing.

I know the troubleshoot is to put another monitor on and see if it reproduces, but I don't have another monitor, and in the words of the immortal Janis Joplin

"My friends all have laptops
I must make amends..."

Monitor is Sony 17" Trinitron about seven years old.

I know: buy a flat screen, noob. But is there any diagnostic in Windows I can use to make sure the problem's in the monitor before I plunk down for a new one?

Thanks all,

[dieg777]

hi - check all your connections at monitor and graphics card and check graphics card is seated properly, and if applicable check power supply to your card.

here is a utility that is free

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download960.html

good luck

[Jungmann]

Thanks, dieg. Ran the app and things seem okay. I think I have what is called an intermittent. Means a new monitor sooner or later, which is bad enough, but then that day lost speaking to customer service in Calcutta.

[LuckyBoy1]

I'd suspect the connector between the PC and ther monitor or the power chord for the monitor or the wall outlett or the power strip or all four.

[Dew-Claw]

I've got an old Toshiba moniter doing the same thing....actually its about the 3rd moniter I've had do that.
Its a sign its on its way out.
Do you smoke? that can sometimes accelerate the decay.

And before someone says 3 moniters? what are you doing to them?
I get them used from work, they already have 3 yrs of use on them by the time Im using them.

[Jungmann]

Thanks, Lucky. Shoved in the five connectors to the monitor coming out of the video sheath from the puter. Yellowed with age, inuslation cracked--I haven't been back there in years. Got a slight shock off one. Probably means something, right?

[Jungmann]

Dew-claw. I smoke like a chimney. And a new monitor before I f*****g quit.

[MoeLarryCheese]

I had a couple of Gateway houst brand 17" monitors
do a "LUCAS syndrome". The second one actualy
caught fire for a few seconds.

SONY makes the best CRT monitor money can buy.
I have had a 22" for many years.

I agree with the previous posts, wires first.
But if you have strange noises, your heading
for a monitor train wreck.

"If Lucas made guns, wars would not start either."

"Why do the English drink warm beer? Lucas makes the refrigerators."

"Lucas--inventor of the self-dimming headlamp."


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