Monitor Problem

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Jamie

Hiya,

I have a system I built awhile back. I've had the same monitor for a long
time, its a 17" HP Ultra 1280. The problem I have with the monitor is one
day it just turned red. Anybody had this problem before? What is the
deal? Any help?
 
Jamie put me in my place by writing
Hiya,

I have a system I built awhile back. I've had the same monitor for
a long
time, its a 17" HP Ultra 1280. The problem I have with the monitor
is one day it just turned red. Anybody had this problem before?
What is the deal? Any help?
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Did you try to degauss it?
 
Hiya,

I have a system I built awhile back. I've had the same monitor for a long
time, its a 17" HP Ultra 1280. The problem I have with the monitor is one
day it just turned red. Anybody had this problem before? What is the
deal? Any help?
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Several possibilities.

The monitor cable has deleoped open conductors.

Bad/bent pins on the monitor plug or socket.

CRT electron guns went bad.

Driver circuitry gor the CRT guns has gone south.

Now unless you are a electronics technician with Television / CRT
monitor experience, don't attempt to fix anything inside the monitor.
Aside from knowing having to know WTF you're doing, there are
extremely high voltages inside and they don't dwindle when external
power is removed. Take it to a qualified technician.


Jack
 
| I have a system I built awhile back. I've had the same monitor for a long
| time, its a 17" HP Ultra 1280. The problem I have with the monitor is one
| day it just turned red. Anybody had this problem before? What is the
| deal? Any help?

It could be the monitor, but the same thing happened to me a few years ago and
it was the ATI graphics card. A replacement card solved the problem. Try the
monitor on another system. If it works OK, it's probably the card that's the
problem. If not, then it's time to start shopping for a new monitor.

Larc



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Jamie said:
I have a system I built awhile back. I've had the same monitor for a long
time, its a 17" HP Ultra 1280. The problem I have with the monitor is one
day it just turned red. Anybody had this problem before? What is the
deal? Any help?
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Tube's probably shot. Take it back.
 
Hi Jamie
SVGA use 24 bit for colors. 8 bit for each color red,blue, and green. So you
have 256 shades red and 256 shades of green, 256 of blue. So I think in
your case you have only 256 shades of red? why is that? I think there is a
problem with your SVGA (Graphic card)
by the way which one you are using ??
 
I have a GeForce 3ti. 128 MB.

I have tried the monitor on a different system and get the same result.
 
Wheat Muncher said:
Did you try to degauss it?
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Why do you people like you make so many outright wrong suggestions?
Degaussing won't help if the screen is red all over.
 
Manny put me in my place by writing
Why do you people like you make so many outright wrong suggestions?
Degaussing won't help if the screen is red all over.
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BS... I have a monitor that goes reddish pink all the time. I degauss/
demagnetize whatever you wanna call it, and it's fine for another couple of
weeks. If you don't believe me, well, that's no skin off my ass. Sounds to
me like you are one of those know it alls anyways, and I have no use for
text-regurgitation machines.
 
Manny put me in my place by writing

reseating that board against the CRT may cure the pink screen
because the CRT pins get hot enough to turn blue, but this must be
done very carefully since the board is often glued on, and cutting
through the glue can easily scratch the glass and lead to an
implosion followed by a violent explosion. Working inside the
monitor should be left to qualified people, meaning NOT most
computer shops.
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If you are gonna suggest this, then just suggest he get a new monitor,
because by the time the "specialists" get paid and the parts are ordered,
he would have just bought a new one with warranty.
People like me do not make wrong suggestions, rather cheaper, and "first
try" suggestions before throwing them to the wolves, which apparently you
would rank as pack leader. Due to the outright snobbish, 21 year old
just- got- out- of- ****ing- college attitude from your initial reply.
Tell me..."Why do you people like you make so many outright wrong
suggestions?" To even point out that he may have a bad gun would invite
some of the more curious minds to open it up. He may not, but what if he
did? Have you personally been on the end of a discharge from one of
these? I have, and I have the burn scars to prove it, and you know what?
I was helping a "specialist" who told me not to worry, he had discharged
the damn thing.
So next time you get up in arms, and your high, mighty horse gives a
grunt, do me a favor and shut your ****ing mouth, and don't feel yourself
better than everyone else because you have some fancy degree or some
shit. Some of us learn by doing, and others by reading.
Jackass.
 
I have a GeForce 3ti. 128 MB.

I have tried the monitor on a different system and get the same result.
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Did you try a different cable as well? It's probably a problem with
your monitor, but if you're lucky...


ancra
 
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