Display will spontaneously change the tint

[boomerang]

It's an annoyance. Everything is completely legible and usable, but the color or tint (don't know how best to term it) will change. Touching the case will correct it although the desired settings may not hold. Might have to touch it several times to get it to "take". Just the lightest of touch will do it. It will come back, it's unpredictable. It will sometime flicker back and forth on its own.

Motherboard has O/B video. Added in a video card, no change. Video cable from monitor is hardwired to monitor so that can't be swapped out. It's a Viewsonic CRT monitor.

Is this some kind of grounding issue? The I/O shield is in place, screws are tight retaining the motherboard, etc.

I'm perplexed.

 

[Soundmanred]

Sounds as if the video cable is bad, mine did that a while back. Luckily mine wasn't hardwired.
It's possible there's a solder point gone bad after time, but you'll never know, and I advise against opening the monitor casing.
Is it a pretty old CRT?
You don't have another monitor to test out?

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Sounds as if the video cable is bad, mine did that a while back. Luckily mine wasn't hardwired.
It's possible there's a solder point gone bad after time, but you'll never know, and I advise against opening the monitor casing.
Is it a pretty old CRT?
You don't have another monitor to test out?

It's about 4 years old. Yeah, another monitor is next on the list.

I guess what's throwing me is the touching the case aspect of this problem.

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
Sounds as if the video cable is bad, mine did that a while back. Luckily mine wasn't hardwired.
It's possible there's a solder point gone bad after time, but you'll never know, and I advise against opening the monitor casing.
Is it a pretty old CRT?
You don't have another monitor to test out?

I had similar problem as well. it was an issue with the vga connection by the cable.