Just a quick post to hopefully save one or two of you some cash.
I woke up this morning, after a power cut, to find that my 21″ Sony G500 had a bright red / pink tint to the screen.
I tried, adjusting the colours, tried Degaussing, waited 30 mins for it to warm up then tried the ‘Image Restoration’.
Nothing worked…
So Credit Card out and a visit to eBay – new monitor bought and paid for.
As the screen was unusable I replaced it with a couple of spare 15″ I have laying about only to find that one was suffering from the same red haze. Thinking (well, swearing actually) that it might be a fried video card due to the powercut, I tried swapping the leads on the two outputs from the card and hey presto all fixed.
After a bit more fiddling and farting I decided to swap for another monitor cable and both monitors worked perfectly.
After a bit more swearing, I plugged the G500 back in to find it worked perfectly – my problem had been a dodgy cable (most likely due to the power cut I think as it was less than a year old).
So, the moral … try and change leads, before you change monitors but most importantly before you spend a heap of cash on a new monitor that you don’t really need.
(slaps forehead!)
I hope this saves someone out there a few bucks.
