White sections appear a shade of pink. Even as the PC starts up?

[Technique]

Not sure which forum would be best for this.

 

Lately i've noticed sections of the monitor appearing pink, or at least a pinkish shade. Even as i turn the PC on, the writing that goes up the screen, at the bottom it's a little pink-ish with the top to mid screen being white.

 

As Windows 7 starts up the bottom parts that should be white are a little pink-ish but in time i don't know if it's my eyes adjusting or whether the screen changes but it appears to become white as it should be.

 

Any ideas? It never used to happen.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

What is the make and model of you monitor?

[Technique]

We have progression on this one now...

 

Just played an online game & during it the screen started flickering slightly.

 

Closed the game down & the screen is still flickering on & off.

 

It's an LG Flatron M227WDP. It's about 6 years old now.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

1 hour ago, Technique said:

We have progression on this one now...

 

Just played an online game & during it the screen started flickering slightly.

 

Closed the game down & the screen is still flickering on & off.

 

It's an LG Flatron M227WDP. It's about 6 years old now.

I have a Flatron E2341 LED back-lit if yours is not LED maybe one of the back lights is going bad or maybe your Video Driver. When I upgrade my Nvidia driver I always have to go into device manager and change the monitor from default to the E2341, maybe you should check this as well.

[Technique]

Hmm, under monitor mine says "Generic PnP Monitor". I'm sure it used to list the actual monitor.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

37 minutes ago, Technique said:

Hmm, under monitor mine says "Generic PnP Monitor". I'm sure it used to list the actual monitor.

Change it to what it should be, you got a disk with the monitor that has the proper driver.

[SIE]

I have an old Samsung 245B, if I have the brightness too high it flickers like mad, as long as I keep the brightness down a bit it's fine

[Technique]

Well i hadn't changed any settings but it seems we've maybe gotten the answer.

 

I was doing my banking online & the screen started flickering quite badly & then all of a sudden the screen went black & wouldn't do anything. I forgot to also mention that some times when i had logged on it wouldn't bring up my desktop - the screen would be black, although ctrl+alt+del would bring up the option for task manager, but i couldn't access the actual desktop without restarting.

 

Anyway so i had to restart the PC & then sure enough i got a display again. It lasted a minute or so before it went black again.

 

So i'd guess that the monitor is broken.

 

You may know already but that is a TV/monitor combo. We have another (an LG Flatron M2262D) in the bedroom which i've taken & so far, 5 minutes in, it's not flickered at all.

 

So for now i'm going to be in the market for a monitor.

[Hum]

You may want to check your video cable, replace it first.

 

Check your video card, reseat it too.

 

Walmart, Best Buy have some good deals on inexpensive TV/Monitors.

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/vizio-32-class-31-5-diag--led-720p-hdtv-black/5581126.p?skuId=5581126

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-27-hd-monitor-black/3112028.p?skuId=3112028

 

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-E2416Hm/54445639

 

 

[Eric Veteran]

Sounds like the backlight to me, too. If you look with a flashlight you will probably see that it's actually not black.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

 

The LG Flatron M227WDP-PZ is an old enough model that it appears to use a CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamp) assembly for lighting the back of the TFT-LCD display.  However, they do not last forever, and like regular fluorescent lights will fail.  Some of the common failure modes are a reddish/pinkish tint and rapid flickering.  Given the age of the unit, LG will probably not repair the unit for free, but it doesn't hurt to ask.  Any electronics/TV repair shop should be able to repair it for you, though.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky