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[The Macster]

*Hugs Acer laptop with Windows Vista*

 

[MacTCP]

Awwww, we're all hugging like Danny Tanner! :I

 

[The Macster]

It looks like we all love our computers a bit too much

 

[Patrickool93]

Awwww, we're all hugging like Danny Tanner! :I

You made me throw up in my mouth :-x

 

[MacTCP]

Ew! My monitor is extremely green now! [xx(] ]'>

Now I must buy a new monitor. I live a few miles away from here, so I'll see what they have.

 

[Bunsen]

oh honeydews!

You rang?

 

[MacTCP]

oh honeydews!

You rang?

Hehe, not Bunsen Honeydew! "Oh honeydews" is what you say when you're in deep-doggie-doo-doo.

I just bought an IBM E54. It's smaller than the Trinitron, but it's much much lighter and the colors are very crisp. I got it for only 26.50 including tax! :b&w:

*hugs E54*

 

[Big Bird]

Almost all of my non-Apple monitors are Dell rebranded Trinitrons that I pick up from thrift stores around the area. Most of them I get have the same color problems where blacks appear green or sometimes purple. I've found that the "Color Return" feature of these monitors (I'm not sure if it's on other Trinitrons or not) works miracles.

If you open up the settings menu, go down to "Color" and choose "Color Return," most of the time, the color problems will go away automatically and a beautiful true color image is restored. You have to wait at least 30 minutes though for the monitor to warm-up before trying the color return, but the control panel will tell you when it's able to perform the color return.

Additionally, I've had good luck with creating ColorSync profiles that compensate as necessary for weird hues found in older monitors.

And finally, some of these monitors don't have built-in VGA cables. The Dell 21-incher I use as a second screen on my PowerBook is like that, and I just pulled a cheap VGA cable out of a box I had lying around of them. Bad choice. I thought the monitor was just old and getting fuzzy and blurry. When I rearranged my office, I swapped cables for a much thicker, nicer cable and all of the color and blur problems went away. The lesson here is cheap cables produce a cheap picture, so when you have a monitor with a removable cable, get a nice quality VGA cable to attach to it.

 

[MacTCP]

I tried everything and the monitor was hopeless. There wasn't a color return option on my monitor. The cable was attatched. Every color turned green, not just black as before. I guess I would call it greenscale, very unpleasant. Our old TV and Performa Monitor both had trinitrons back when we had those. They had to be repaired.

Repairing would cost more than buying a monitor, so I bought my IBM. The place I bought it from even gave me free recycling on my green 78 pound beast. My new E54 looks very good. Its cable is permanently attatched, but the cable is high quality. IBM seems to be excellent making monitors.

 

[Unknown_K]

Almost all of my non-Apple monitors are Dell rebranded Trinitrons that I pick up from thrift stores around the area. Most of them I get have the same color problems where blacks appear green or sometimes purple. I've found that the "Color Return" feature of these monitors (I'm not sure if it's on other Trinitrons or not) works miracles.
If you open up the settings menu, go down to "Color" and choose "Color Return," most of the time, the color problems will go away automatically and a beautiful true color image is restored. You have to wait at least 30 minutes though for the monitor to warm-up before trying the color return, but the control panel will tell you when it's able to perform the color return.

Additionally, I've had good luck with creating ColorSync profiles that compensate as necessary for weird hues found in older monitors.

And finally, some of these monitors don't have built-in VGA cables. The Dell 21-incher I use as a second screen on my PowerBook is like that, and I just pulled a cheap VGA cable out of a box I had lying around of them. Bad choice. I thought the monitor was just old and getting fuzzy and blurry. When I rearranged my office, I swapped cables for a much thicker, nicer cable and all of the color and blur problems went away. The lesson here is cheap cables produce a cheap picture, so when you have a monitor with a removable cable, get a nice quality VGA cable to attach to it.

My SONY 19" 420GS has a factory restore button that does the same thing (and you do have to wait for it to warm up for 30 minutes to get to that option).

 

[MacTCP]

Even if it had that option, I doubt the green would go away since that had to be repaired on two other things. Either way, the wiggly distortion would probably still be there. I saw some Dell trinitrons when I got the IBM. They were $55, much more expensive and wasn't in the mood for another trinitron.

 

[Quadraman]

Almost all of my non-Apple monitors are Dell rebranded Trinitrons that I pick up from thrift stores around the area. Most of them I get have the same color problems where blacks appear green or sometimes purple. I've found that the "Color Return" feature of these monitors (I'm not sure if it's on other Trinitrons or not) works miracles.
If you open up the settings menu, go down to "Color" and choose "Color Return," most of the time, the color problems will go away automatically and a beautiful true color image is restored. You have to wait at least 30 minutes though for the monitor to warm-up before trying the color return, but the control panel will tell you when it's able to perform the color return.

Additionally, I've had good luck with creating ColorSync profiles that compensate as necessary for weird hues found in older monitors.

And finally, some of these monitors don't have built-in VGA cables. The Dell 21-incher I use as a second screen on my PowerBook is like that, and I just pulled a cheap VGA cable out of a box I had lying around of them. Bad choice. I thought the monitor was just old and getting fuzzy and blurry. When I rearranged my office, I swapped cables for a much thicker, nicer cable and all of the color and blur problems went away. The lesson here is cheap cables produce a cheap picture, so when you have a monitor with a removable cable, get a nice quality VGA cable to attach to it.

I've tried the color return trick on mine. It seems I have one of the few it doesn't work on. :-/

I also read about a cable and interface you can build and software you can download to change the settings of the monitor internally to compensate the way a Sony technician would, but that seems like too much trouble.

 

[Unknown_K]

The tech software is expensive. There is only so much you can do in software, it is for fine tuning adjustments and will not fix dying electronics.

 

[MacTCP]

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