i left with my dad to go buy some stuff, leaving the computer on. my stepmom must've turned it off while i was gone. when i turned it back on, my screen had a shade of green covering it. it's not that bright anymore. i tried setting the brightness and contrass settings, but it didn't help. is my screen broken?
2007-03-03 16:40:11 · 3 answers · asked by sigh 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
Just a guess but if you didn't change any settings its 1 of 2 things.
Graphic card or monitor. Try your monitor on another computer if it works it the card. Monitors have a red blue and green gun that combines to give the colors 1 of your guns is shot. Good luck, UJ
2007-03-03 16:48:49 · answer #1 · answered by unclejohn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like the graphics card is the problem, because by adjusting its setting it has an effect on the problem. With the newest drivers the problem should technically disappear, but not always. On my mom's laptop (unfortunately has ATI card) the screen would just go black sometimes, or it would dim to nearly 100 % with no way to get it back without a restart. By installing new ATI drivers the problem happened less often, but it still happened. If you keep all the drivers updated it should get better ... if it really bothers you try contacting ATI and beat an answer out of the tech support ... the answer will be sorry our ATI cards are just crap. Or you could get a new graphics card ... any except SiS or really cheap ones (I would reccomend nVIDIA). Or if you bought the card recently you can possibly take it back to the store and have em check it for faulty manufacturing (a very likely possibility considering the "quality" of ATI cards in general)
You can google "ATI green screen" no quotes and see that a lot of the ATI cards have problems similar to this ... and it's usually due to faulty manufacturing ... or just a crappy card in general. It sounds like you updated everything you needed to, with all new drivers for everything the only possible cause is the ATI card, no monitor does this on its own
2007-03-03 16:54:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could be, but it could be also in a freeze stage, it is normally going green for a while
by closing or starting your computer.
sometimes he goes green, after a crashstop,than it shows normally ,repair desktop,and after you press that, it goes back into the normal state.
just crashstop your computer,it will start automaticly and try to see wat it says in the starting up procedure.
try to reduce some programs,once your in,it could help.
brgds
2007-03-03 16:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by Nanno D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋