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seireikhaan
02-01-2012, 07:47
My monitor just sorta out of the blue decided it liked pink. Now the screen has this continued pink hue/tint to it, regardless of which program I'm running. I've tried fiddling with the color settings to no avail. Tried setting the input to HDMI(just to see the error message) and it came through in perfect coloring. I'm genuinely unsure of what to do, and I'd prefer to not have to send anything in for fixing. Any suggestions?

For reference, here's a screenie I took of the .org. Anyone else see the slight off coloring?
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/Pinky.png?t=1328078074
Sp4
02-01-2012, 11:28
Perfectly normal here (the screenshot) make sure your monitor cable is plugged in correctly and all the way. This sort of stuff really likes to happen if you don't.
seireikhaan
02-01-2012, 11:36
How odd...

Sent myself on a couple hour nap, since I wasn't up to anything else too productive. Woke up and it's back to normal. Hmm.
Lemur
02-01-2012, 20:28
If your monitor is a CRT, that may be a sign that it's dying. My old, hulking CRT did some weird color shifts before it went completely belly-up. If you're using an LCD monitor ... no idea. I'd have to do some Google-fu.
LeftEyeNine
02-01-2012, 21:17
Also that happens when one or more of those pins of the VGA connector of your monitor (LCDs like mine and CRTs has it) are bent/skewed/broken/missing. Make sure the connector pins (if you have'em that is) are intact.
seireikhaan
02-02-2012, 17:16
Nah, working on an LCD, Lemur. Almost not sure I could go back to a CRT at this point. Bring back bad memories of the ancient rust bucket I used back in high school that had about 16 gb of HD space.(just enough power to play MTW, still lagged at some of the auto-resolves :sweatdrop:)

Well, checked the pins on the VGA, and they seemed in order. Maybe they were jostled just a bit loose? :shrug: Not sure, but it's been working just fine since the episode.
Xiahou
02-03-2012, 22:05
Also that happens when one or more of those pins of the VGA connector of your monitor (LCDs like mine and CRTs has it) are bent/skewed/broken/missing. Make sure the connector pins (if you have'em that is) are intact.:yes:
All signs point to a vga connection issue. The fact that when you changed inputs the problem went away is telling. Maybe just a loose or poorly seated connector....