my pc doesnt display red colour! plz help

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Posted by Peter K on Dec-01-2003 11:28:

my pc doesnt display red colour! plz help

ever since i bought my pc, anything which is supposed to be displayed as red is shown as black.
any help would be appreciated

Posted by Ripped Bag on Dec-01-2003 11:36:

Have you recently changed video cards or unplugged the monitor and plugged it back in?

Posted by Peter K on Dec-01-2003 11:49:

nope

Posted by Ripped Bag on Dec-01-2003 12:09:

Well.. that rules out my ability to help =\ sorry

Posted by KilldaDJ on Dec-01-2003 18:53:

buy another pc.

or get a diff gfx card/monitor.

Posted by Scorpio Rising on Dec-01-2003 21:25:

Maybe something wrong with your eyes. What's the colour of this smiley?

Posted by igottaknow on Dec-01-2003 21:51:

your monitor probably out of red ink

Posted by Delay Llama on Dec-01-2003 21:59:

There's no need for you to highlight this text

Posted by CynepMeH on Dec-01-2003 22:29:

Here are some troubleshooting tips, as pretty much most of the answers above are somewhat useless

1. Try plugging in a different monitor - if that works, well, you know the problem is with your monitor

2. Try using a different video card (buy from bestbuy or compusa, so u can return it if you don't have a problem)

3. Try checking your monitor's color settings and also try degausing it - most new monitors have a feature to do that (see your owner's manual)

4. Check your color schema on your OS - make sure you set it to default.

Hope this helps. Drop a line if it helps. (or doesn't)

Posted by Dr. Cfire on Dec-01-2003 23:22:

quote:
Originally posted by igottaknow
your monitor probably out of red ink

You can get monitor refill packs at your local computer store. But dont try to refill your monitor or it will cause the monitor to explode.

Posted by Streakfury on Dec-02-2003 01:13:

I'm staring at these forums with the exact same problem, i've had it for a while. The screen keeps going normal again (sometimes after i've belted it) but then the reds fcuk up again. A shiney new TFT for xmas is in order methinks...

Posted by Turbonium on Dec-02-2003 01:17:

try updating drivers

Posted by Z1D on Dec-02-2003 01:33:

sounds to me like your monitor is fucked

Posted by whiskers on Dec-02-2003 01:51:

right click on desktop -> properties -> settings tab -> advanced -> color

and see if the gamma has been fucked with

if not, that's as much as i can tell you.

Posted by Fundamental on Dec-02-2003 02:22:

quote:
Originally posted by Z1D
sounds to me like your monitor is fucked

A nice technical explanation there...

Posted by DJ-Fuq on Dec-02-2003 02:29:

Its not ur monitors fault. If the red gun wasnt working then the whole screen would be fucked up, not just red bits.
Its probably a software problem.

Posted by Hg-203 on Dec-02-2003 02:37:

I would have guessed your red gun was shot, but I think DJ-Fuq is right, you shouldn't be seeing any red at all in any of the colors on your screen. It has to be a software problem. Even if you have a bent pin on your monitor to computer adapter you would have a missing color across the whole monitor. I would see if you could plug the monitor into a friend�s computer to see if you get the same results. If you do take it in to where ever you got it and have them look at it. If you don�t get the same results go to the web site of the company that makes the monitor and get a new set of drivers for it, also get a new set of drivers for your vid card.

Also is this a CRT (the old school TV like ones) or LCD (the thin one)

Posted by igottaknow on Dec-02-2003 03:53:

I've got good news and bad news. 1st the good news there iS nothing wrong with you monitor, video card, or computer. Now for the bad news, you better sit down...YOU'RE COLOR BLIND!

Posted by Peter K on Dec-02-2003 05:09:

theres nothing wrong with my monitor.. ive tried another perfectly good monitor and that also doesnt show red.

Posted by CynepMeH on Dec-02-2003 05:42:

quote:
Originally posted by igottaknow
I've got good news and bad news. 1st the good news there iS nothing wrong with you monitor, video card, or computer. Now for the bad news, you better sit down...YOU'RE COLOR BLIND!

hahahahah!!! ahahahahah!!!!

Don' you have some real "friends" = someone who can drive over you, backup, and then drive over you again??? If there was a contest, you'd be the most annoying nimrod on these here forums...

Get lost, will ya???

Posted by drizzt81 on Dec-02-2003 13:23:

quote:
Originally posted by teknoking
theres nothing wrong with my monitor.. ive tried another perfectly good monitor and that also doesnt show red.
that means you need to reinitialize the red-color MOSFETs in your graphics cards main pipeline. They are currently in a sleep state and you need to wake them up. Get a BIG magnet and swipe it in the direction of positive gfx flow through the pipeline across the ic multiple times. that should fix it.

Posted by igottaknow on Dec-02-2003 15:30:

quote:
Originally posted by CynepMeH
hahahahah!!! ahahahahah!!!! :s

hi grampa,
ur grumpy today did you forget to take ur medication? or Do you need a clean set of depends for that bladder problem?

quote:
Originally posted by drizzt81
that means you need to reinitialize the red-color MOSFETs in your graphics cards main pipeline. They are currently in a sleep state and you need to wake them up. Get a BIG magnet and swipe it in the direction of positive gfx flow through the pipeline across the ic multiple times. that should fix it.

Good advice, while he's at it, he should realign the hard drive with a magnet too.

Posted by Streakfury on Dec-02-2003 17:38:

Someone suggested to me that if you have speakers next to your computer, the magnetic fields that they give off may interfere with the path of the cathode rays. Although that doesnt explain why only the reds are affected and not the blues/greens. He might be onto something though.

Posted by andy on Dec-02-2003 17:53:

didnt read the whole thread so i dont know if u tried this already but...

Control panel --> Display properties --> Settings --> Advanced --> Color management

check what it says on that page