red shading over all on screen

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On my sons computer (was win 98 SE) he started having a red shaded screen. He's 3 so he cant tell me what he did. I messed around with some of the display settings but nothing changed with it. I updated to XP (his doesnt have internet access either) no help. I tried to reformat the hard drive but it freezes during the set up. What I do to reformat is, install XP disk, restart and boot from disk and then it freezes 30-45 seconds later in setup. What the red screen is is like a tinting over the screen and when certain windows dialogue boxes open those are normal until i drag the cursor over them and it shades it red when I drag the cursor over an area. Most all of the screen starts out all red though. I checked cursor settings, display settings but not sure what to look for. I didnt think that any setting could do this to a screen. I can see everything through the tinting but... it is quite visually annoying. To get an idea, just think of placing red celophane plastic over your montior screen. Thats what it looks like all the time. It doesnt do it during the XP loading screen so I know its not my monitor. No special graphics card have been installed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. email address is without ( ) info. just for spam purposes.
 
See this archived (March 2000) thread from Win98 General Discussion:

http://snipurl.com/3jua

(problem with the cable or the plug; unsheilded speaker too close to
monitor)

If you switch monitors and the red goes away, the old monitor is probably
about to die.

(All of his red crayons and markers aren't missing, are they?)
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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I plugged that computer into the monitor I am using now and this monitor is fine but when plug in computer in question the red haze is on the screen.

----- PA Bear wrote: -----

See this archived (March 2000) thread from Win98 General Discussion:

http://snipurl.com/3jua

(problem with the cable or the plug; unsheilded speaker too close to
monitor)

If you switch monitors and the red goes away, the old monitor is probably
about to die.

(All of his red crayons and markers aren't missing, are they?)
--
HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
it doesnt work right on either monitor. I tried a good monitor. nothing but red tin

----- purplehaz wrote: ----

You're monitor is dying. Try another one and if it works fine replace th
old one

tjmnavynuke wrote
 
If the monitor checks out OK on both systems, then I'd look into the
video card possibly having some mung in the connectors and/or just
replacing the whole thing.

BR
 
Bill Ray said:
If the monitor checks out OK on both systems, then I'd look into the
video card possibly having some mung in the connectors and/or just
replacing the whole thing.

BR
Or someone has been messing with the gamma controls in the video card drivers.

Open the display properties, go to the settings tab, and click advanced. There
might be a menu or tab in there that has color control settings. All NVidia
cards have this (if you have the drivers for it).
 
Good call, Grant!

BR


Or someone has been messing with the gamma controls in the video card drivers.

Open the display properties, go to the settings tab, and click advanced. There
might be a menu or tab in there that has color control settings. All NVidia
cards have this (if you have the drivers for it).
 
tjmnavynuke said:
I plugged that computer into the monitor I am using now and this
monitor is fine but when plug in computer in question the red haze is
on the screen.

1) Why on earth has a three-year-old got his own computer anyway?! Most
three year olds I know want Thomas the Tank Engine or Bob the Builder, but
anyway...Giving a computer to a three year old is akin to giving a 13 year
old the use of your car - they're both likely to end up wrecked!

2) If changing the monitor doesn't help, then the next logical step would
be to change the graphics card.
 
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