Nooooo!!! Monitor turning colors!

[BeauJangles]

My monitor is flashing pretty frequently from normal coloring, to a pink shade... Does this mean it's dying???!!!

 

[ucvb6]

this actually started happening to one of my monitors. i assumed that it was dying, anyhow, i usaully just bang the side of the monitor and it goes back to normal.

but i would be interested in finding out why this happens.(sometimes i get blue flickering, sometimes pink)

 

[TheWart]

Hmmm, have you tried Degaussing your monitor? Look in the manual for a howto. It basically demagnetizes your monitor, and it like shakes the screen and readjusts it. Sounds like what u need.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

It may just need a thorough deguassing. You can pick up deguassing coils at most electronic stores. If that doesn't work, then your tube may be dying.

 

[BeauJangles]

Thanks guys!! I tried Degaussing it. I will tell you what happens.

 

[Bleep]

My best guess is that you have a bad solder joint in the cable plug or where it is soldered on to the board in the monitor itself. When it turns pink just loosen the screws a little that holds the plug into the video card and move the cable around it will probably flicker back and forth between good and pink.
Bleep

 

[Bozo Galora]

ditto to Bleep

I used to sit at a computer in a networked classroom, and everytime somebody walked by and bumped the
cable, the monitor would go pink (or blue), looked terrible, but straightening the connector a little would
fix it. Bunch of old used crap.

 

[Bleepeep]

sometimes my monitor drops into this weird purple hue. I just push the monitor plug more firmly into the video card and viola! it pops back into normal mode.

 

[Seeko]

It could also be the monitor cable. If deguassing doesn't fix it, you can try replacing the cable.

 

[Kipper]

Sounds like a bad case of "dead tube." Basically, in the case of where a monitor changes to different colors, one of the three electron guns inside the monitor is on the blink or has died. Monitors work by basically combining the three primary colors - red, green, and blue hence acronym (RGB), to produce the multi-colored images on your screen. Like a TV, the small particles fired at the screen "stick" to the screen itself, allowing the illusion of a "fixed" picture. I think that's about it. Basically, when one of your guns dies the other two combine to produce weird, tripped-out colors...

Someone correct me if I'm completely and blatantly wrong here...I've found this to be the case on most older, crappier displays I've owned...