Its gone green!

[nealric]

My wonderful 21inch trinitron monitor has sudenly aquired a strong green tint.

The color adjustment on the on screen menu allows me to adjust red, blue and green. By red and blue- it has adjustable levels. By green is says "fix" and wont let me do anything to it.

Its an older monitor- so there is no tech support to explain what is meant by "fix"

Is my monitor toast?

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Can you adjust red and blue to compensate? If not, there could be many causes of this - you'd need to get it to a tech who had the proper tools to diagnose and fix these - ideally a Sony service center with the proper factory alignment interface and software. I'll admit I don't usually take on newer Sony monitors myself unless the flaw is obviously not going to take those alignment gadgets to fix. Sony doesn't like us independant techs :(

[nealric]

LOL- I feel like a dummy
One of the pins on the monitor cable had come loose- the red pin- so the monitor was getting no red input and therfore came out green.

Oh well- at least its working now :)

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Sure beats what they would charge you for fixing it ;)

[DaBigJ]

Originally posted by nealric
LOL- I feel like a dummy
One of the pins on the monitor cable had come loose- the red pin- so the monitor was getting no red input and therfore came out green.

Oh well- at least its working now :)

lol, that's what i was going to suggest.

one of my monitors has a bad plug that's a little difficult to get to stay in, and it does that if you don't have it in right.