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(Message started by: Jasmyn on Dec 12^th, 2005, 9:41am)

Title: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 12^th, 2005, 9:41am

Hi, got new pc and LG 17" flat screen monitor but now the problem is, I've tried everything, from setting the colour of the monitor to the settings on the pc but my colour stays out of whack.

It is over red, overly bright, like neon... even the blue, my background is pinkish, my eyes hurt.

Please if you have advise, help!

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Dec 12^th, 2005, 9:56am

Simple solution is to check and make sure that the cable is plugged in securely.

If it isn't all the way in, you will get funky colors like that. If it is all the way in and you are still having problems, make sure that there isn't a bent pin on one ond of the cable.

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 12^th, 2005, 9:58am

Thanks, gonna check

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Rock_Lobster on Dec 12^th, 2005, 10:56am

Agreed with EEB. It should be great out of the box.

What kinda connector are you using? The normal VGA connector, or the DVI connector?

On the monitor itself, through the configuration menu, you can tweak color temp and brightness and such.

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 12^th, 2005, 3:44pm

on 12/12/05 at 10:56:16, Rock_Lobster wrote:

Checked the cable, everything ok, got a VGA connector, I think but still the colour is bad. I also tried setting it on the monitor itself. [smiley=huh.gif]

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Ghost on Dec 12^th, 2005, 3:47pm

Buy some rose colored glasses and it will dull and or cancel out the red and all will be good again ;;D

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 12^th, 2005, 4:17pm

on 12/12/05 at 15:47:57, Ghost wrote:

Buy some rose colored glasses and it will dull and or cancel out the red and all will be good again ;;D

:P Well Goat for the first time in years I'm wearing my specs again but unfortunately they are not rose coloured, I just use them to see your rosy scribbling on here ;)

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Dec 12^th, 2005, 4:20pm

Did you get it fixed Jazz???

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 12^th, 2005, 4:28pm

on 12/12/05 at 16:20:04, ExplodingEyeBall wrote:

Did you get it fixed Jazz???

No, it's a bugger, not yet!

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jonny on Dec 12^th, 2005, 4:51pm

Jas, I will send a plane ticket, you can move in with me and use my computer :-*

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 12^th, 2005, 5:07pm

on 12/12/05 at 16:51:58, Jonny wrote:

Jas, I will send a plane ticket, you can move in with me and use my computer :-*

Thanks Jonny, yea... I will move in with you just to use your computer [smiley=winkkiss.gif]

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Opus on Dec 12^th, 2005, 5:13pm

Try it on a diffrent computer, if it is the same then it is probably a bad monitor, if it is better then it could be a bad video card on the computer, or maybe ( but I doubt it ) bad drivers. You can always try another operating system like Knoppix, if it looks good (http://knoppix.org/) then you are sure it is a software problem.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by MJ on Dec 12^th, 2005, 6:17pm

Non-techie here

I had to download new drivers and change the screen resolution with an HP system and ViewSonic brand flat monitor at home. Windows stiil says theres a problem but it works. The monitor does not have microsoft recognition. Whatever thats worth.

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 12^th, 2005, 6:24pm

Paul I checked it works on a smaller old monitor, now I just wonder, like MJ said mustn't I install a new driver and get a new graphics card?

The computer is a HP but the monitor is a LG Flatron L1730S with a Intel(R) 82865G graphics controller.

Maybe the internal graphics card is not compatible with the monitor as they were purchased separate?

The compter runs with windows Xp.

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Opus on Dec 12^th, 2005, 9:27pm

You still need to try the monitor on a different computer, or laptop, most laptops have a video out port. If you cannot do that then take it back to the store ( if you bought it at one) and see if it works for them, it still could be bad. If the monitor is good, then it probably is a driver problem. If you have dial up, look for a local LUG ( Linux users group), someone should be able to get you Knoppix to know for sure if it is a windows xp driver problem. Also look for updated drivers and maybe firm ware updates at the manufacturers site. Google the monitors model to see if there are known problems. I hope this helps.

Opus/Paul

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 13^th, 2005, 2:14am

Thanks Paul I am going to try again.

Ps: a bit of a problem this smuggling business ;)

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Kirk on Dec 13^th, 2005, 9:32pm

After trying that monitor on another computer. My first suspicion would fall on that Intel Vidieo card. Intel cards tend to be flaky.
I'd get an NVidia card anyway just to make sure.
[smiley=smokin.gif]

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Drk^Angel on Dec 14^th, 2005, 11:30am

Have you installed the drivers for the monitor? Many times when ppl install a new monitor, they don't think about installing the driver, because Windoze will normally choose the closest match in it's driver library. Unfortunately, the driver Winblows picks is not always a proper driver.

I'd recomend installing the monitor's drivers, upgrading the graphic card's drivers, reset to factory default on the monitor's menu, then press the Set/Auto button to try to have the monitor try to find the right settings... You don't have to do all four things, just go until the problem is fixed. If there's still a problem, and you're sure the cable isn't damaged, the 'puter isn't the problem, all the connections are proper and secure, and tweaking the settings don't make things any better... I would have to say that montior could be fubar'd.

PFDAN.................................. Drk^Angel

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Rock_Lobster on Dec 14^th, 2005, 11:55am

That is why I was asking about the connections. Monitors using the analog connection tend to be less dependent upon drivers for something as basic as color that do DVI monitors.

Sounds like a hosed monitor.

Once you get the monitor drivers loaded as Drk suggested, try tweak the monitor refresh rate a little bit... from 65hz up until it does not work anymore... see if the problem is restricted to just the refresh rate you ae using. Perhaps by default you are set too high for the monitor, which would hose it a bit.

/too busy to look up your new monitor specs. will look it up later. post suggestive pics of yourself in the meantime.

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 15^th, 2005, 3:29pm

Thanks guys for the info, I'm still sitting with the pink screen and neon colours.

Can only get back to SA to a town big enough to store pc products over the new year, so in the meantime I've had the monitor checked by connecting it to another guys pc with bigger graphics card, still neon.

Ken I've re-installed all the drivers, still no luck. I will look for someone out here with a similar cable and check if it is the cable (not an easy feet as I live far from no-one-in-particular).

Hey you lobster guy... I would post suggestive pics of myself at this time to pass the time but I'm having some technical problems with making techies too happy over the Christmas Season ;) I think talking about hardware, software and drivers should make for enough happy reading :-*

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Ghost on Dec 15^th, 2005, 3:36pm

on 12/15/05 at 15:29:42, Jasmyn wrote:

Hey you lobster guy... I would post suggestive pics of myself at this time to pass the time but I'm having some technical problems with making techies too happy over the Christmas Season ;) I think talking about hardware, software and drivers should make for enough happy reading :-*

I like talking about hardware software and drivers! :o ;;D ;;D ;)
Show us the hardware! [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Dec 15^th, 2005, 3:51pm

Geeks like pictures.

Title: Re: Hey Techies Help Please
Post by Jasmyn on Dec 17^th, 2005, 12:29am

Whao...Thanks you guys!

It is working, no neon anymore!

It was the cable, you guys are so clever!

Got a new one smuggled in by someone else, yippee! I see normally again! ;;D