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For some reason my monitor ( a relatively new one! ) will periodically flicker to a more yellow color. It doesn't seem to be related to anything I do or don't do, although it will revert to full color when I reboot. Right now it's jumping back and forth from full color to a yellowish tint. Any ideas???

For some reason my monitor ( a relatively new one! ) will periodically flicker to a more yellow color. It doesn't seem to be related to anything I do or don't do, although it will revert to full color when I reboot. Right now it's jumping back and forth from full color to a yellowish tint. Any ideas???

I assume this is a CRT (and not LCD) screen. The colour guns are dying and you need to get replaced. This is a common problem when monitors die.

I assume this is a CRT (and not LCD) screen. The colour guns are dying and you need to get replaced. This is a common problem when monitors die.
But I just bought it not four months ago! SIGH! :(

But I just bought it not four months ago! SIGH! :(

Use the warranty. 4 months means you got a dud. I have one monitor for a few years. Get an LCD, lighter to carry and easier to move.

But I just bought it not four months ago! SIGH! :(

Then it should still be under warranty, if you have one. One is supplied with the product most of the time, and lasts for anytime between 90 days and a year usually.

Just hope that it is your monitor and not your brain that's malfunctioning. :eek:

Your sexual powers don't help you here, eh? :D

Just hope that it is your monitor and not your brain that's malfunctioning. :eek:
Heh! Cute. Real cute! :p

Your sexual powers don't help you here, eh? :D
Who knows? Perhaps I could work out some sort of arrangement with a female computer store clerk. :D

Who knows? Perhaps I could work out some sort of arrangement with a female computer store clerk. :D
Unless, of course, there's a level above Omega and this clerk just so happened to get it.

Unless, of course, there's a level above Omega and this clerk just so happened to get it.
OMG! Can you say "acute myocardial infarction" boys and girls! :D

OMG! Can you say "acute myocardial infarction" boys and girls! :D
acute myo-*explodes*

I have one monitor for a few years.

*checks back of monitor*

Builddate: Sep,93.

I guess that makes it older than some of the posters on here.

*checks back of monitor*

Builddate: Sep,93.

I guess that makes it older than some of the posters on here.
I wasn't even in preschool yet when that thing was built.

I wasn't even in preschool yet when that thing was built.

I would have been 4 years old.

*checks back of monitor*

Builddate: Sep,93.

I guess that makes it older than some of the posters on here.

Mine has a "test passed" sticker dated 1992, which is about right. It starts to complain every once in a while now though, not changing resolution correctly and such.

OMG! Can you say "acute myocardial infarction" boys and girls! :D

OMG! Can you say "The way I wish to shed this mortal coil" boys and girls! :D

OMG! Can you say "The way I wish to shed this mortal coil" boys and girls! :D

The way I wish to shed this mortal coil.

What's going on? I don't get the joke. Or the previous one. My mind is all frazzled. It must be all the Elvis Costello...

OMG! Can you say "The way I wish to shed this mortal coil" boys and girls! :D

I though standard practice was to 'shuffle off', rather than to 'shed', no?

*checks back of monitor*

Builddate: Sep,93.

I guess that makes it older than some of the posters on here.

I have a 14" Sonica monitor on my other PC that would be a bit older than that (got the PC it came with in early '93 IIRC). Still going strong.

I though standard practice was to 'shuffle off', rather than to 'shed', no?
Just say, "E's joined the bleedin' choir eternal!" :D

For some reason my monitor ( a relatively new one! ) will periodically flicker to a more yellow color. It doesn't seem to be related to anything I do or don't do, although it will revert to full color when I reboot. Right now it's jumping back and forth from full color to a yellowish tint. Any ideas???

*ponders*
What frequency are you using ?

I have an ancient monitor, easily older than 10 years old, and it's still going strong. They don't build 'em like they used ta. :D

BWO obviously agrees, hehe. Using a viewsonic, BWO?


Erm....
This monitor, which isn't my older one, sometimes randomly changed from white to pink.

Then it just stopped. So hopefully that'll happen to yours. In any case, follow the yello brick warranty.

Well I think most of my answers have been stated

1) gun issues
2) cable issues
3) vid card issues

(1 and 2 are the most likely) to eliminate possibility 3 plug in a new monitor
If the new one don’t glitch then you know it is the cable or monitor … if it does vid card issues try to find a replacement vid card to test before purchasing a new one

2) cable issues


High impedance air gap?

High impedance air gap?
Was thinking more along the lines of cracked shielding or faulty pins

Was thinking more along the lines of cracked shielding or faulty pins

It was meant more jokingly to the overly-long way of saying "maybe the cable is unplugged a little bit"

To your actual thought, that's what I was seriously thinking.

I have an ancient monitor, easily older than 10 years old, and it's still going strong. They don't build 'em like they used ta. :D

BWO obviously agrees, hehe. Using a viewsonic, BWO?


Nope: a Hewlett-Packard. Their monitors are obviously of a much higher quality than the PCs that they came with: not only were they pretty lousy machines from the get-go, they also had non-standard parts and strange shaped connectors inside them.

It was meant more jokingly to the overly-long way of saying "maybe the cable is unplugged a little bit"

To your actual thought, that's what I was seriously thinking.
Lol was going to say :) traditionally you only deal with air gap impedance in high voltage situations (well where I have worked with it)

:) anyways lol (sorry just got done with a 3 day lan party wee bit sleepy)