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need some help... - Tenacity - 05-18-2008
So just now i was browsing these forums, and opened up the readme for the discovery mod looking at ship stats. As soon as I closed notepad, my screen went this kind of teal/blue tinted color, and I cant fix it. I've tried changing color balancing on the monitor itself, restarting my computer, checked all monitor/tower connections... nothing is working.
Please tell me my monitor isnt fried...
need some help... - Tenacity - 05-18-2008
well, great, I figured out the problem... i think.
The red color channel isnt working. I get blue and green, but no red... thus, everything that's supposed to be white or any shade of red looks bluish.
I tried switching out monitors and had the same problem, so it's got to be an issue with my graphics card... now I have to spend a few hundred bucks I dont have just to fix this peice of crap.
*sigh*:(
need some help... - looqas - 05-20-2008
Aren't there any warranty left in your gfx card?
need some help... - Tenacity - 05-20-2008
I've still got a warranty on the computer itself for a few months...
the entire thing is integrated though, it doesnt have a seperate card for graphics. Damn gateway POS.
need some help... - jshkornmiller - 05-20-2008
Hey that happened to me once, i had a 21 inch monitor and it went all yellow tinted, it was under warranty but i threw the warranty slip away, so i had to ditch the moniter, and get a new one. Sorry Tenacity. you may need to get a new one. Or maybe you need a better video card. Try a Nvidia, they the bomb, ATI= lame my opinion "don't hit me!" *runs and hides behind the awesome power of Nvidia*
need some help... - Tenacity - 05-20-2008
Pretty sure at this point it isnt my monitor, since i've tried a couple others and they both have the same problem.
It seems more like a 'loose wire', though I cant find said wire. Monitors run off of three color channels - red, green, and blue - and when it glitches out it's simply the red channel not working at all (so the green/blue are overpowering and make everything seem teal tinted). It hasnt been happening all that much, but every once in a while it goes whack again.
And the integrated video card is an Nvidia GEforce 6150LE