2009/6/8 Vic
I have an old style computer monitor - probably 6 or 7 years old - which
has recently begun behaving oddly. It suddenly goes a deep purple
colour.
It's probably the monitor dying - but before you bin it, *check* it's not
something silly like the cab
2009/6/8 Vic
>
> > I have an old style computer monitor - probably 6 or 7 years old - which
> > has recently begun behaving oddly. It suddenly goes a deep purple
> > colour.
>
> It's probably the monitor dying - but before you bin it, *check* it's not
> something silly like the cable starting to
I have a big old IBM CRT display (much older) which does exactly that. It
will usually 'go away' if I re-plug the signal cable into the computer, but
it usually happens again after a while.
Not a problem for me as I use it just occasionally to provide a 'head' to my
normally 'headless' NAS, but it
> I have an old style computer monitor - probably 6 or 7 years old - which
> has recently begun behaving oddly. It suddenly goes a deep purple
> colour.
It's probably the monitor dying - but before you bin it, *check* it's not
something silly like the cable starting to fall out...
Vic.
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Pl
Hi,
Sounds like the green gun or the drive to it is going and that whatever the
monitor does when it changes scan rate (the terminal and desktop probably use
different modes) looks like it's causing the drive to the green to come back.
I'd say it was probably time for a nice new flat screen.
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Owain Clarke wrote:
> I have an old style computer monitor - probably 6 or 7 years old -
By old style you mean CRT?
> All in all I assume my monitor is dying, but I just thought I'd ask if
> it sounds familiar to anyone, so I don't have to buy a new one before I
> have to.
I have an old style computer monitor - probably 6 or 7 years old - which
has recently begun behaving oddly. It suddenly goes a deep purple
colour. It can be revived by going onto a virtual terminal then
switching back. It's on a dual boot Linux and Windows computer and
happens on both, so I
