old monitors

Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

I'm using a v old donor monitor at home mainly cus my desktop is seldom used , but the monitor has gone all blue any idea why this happens? ,

In university too the old machines all had blueish monitors too,

any suggestions?

thanks.
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Teamcalibra · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 07 May 2002 Karma :

Prob cus of them being an CRT - cathode ray tube and the tube is on it's way out???

T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

check the pins in the d-sub plug. broke/missing/bent ones can cause this to.

also is the entire screen blue or just a patch?

if the pins are OK then all blue would indicate a problem with one or more of the RGB guns. patches could be due to a magnet being near the screen? maybe an unshielded speaker or something.
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Jesus_Christ · Spanner Monkey Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Karma :

Or like my sister who had stuck fridge magnets on her monitor Doh!

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Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

this monitor is from 1995 , I was just curious thats all , no magnets near by as I use head phones.
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T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

ive an old IBM 17" diamondtron CRT from about then and it still gives one of the best images Thumbs Up

sounds like it might just be on its way to the big junk yard in the sky Thumbs Down

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simon1221 · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Karma :

Blue screen of death?
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Nath · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Karma :

Had this on an old monitor before, and also on my 14" telly. The telly would go back to normal sometimes if you pressed lots of buttons, and would generally not go funny if I kept the brightness setting turned up really high. The monitor would do it randomly, but did it more and more as time went on. When the monitor started doing it all the time I fiddled with the brightness and contrast settings to make it a bit more usable, and just put up with it for a few months till I could replace it.
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angryjonny · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Karma :

I used to have a monitor that did this. I think it was down to a dry-solder somewhere causing a loose connection. It was one of those problems I really could fix (temporarily) simply by giving it a good smack.