help please. New computer's acting weird.

[bakura_fan]

*please move this if this is not posted in the appropriate place*

Ok....I just got a new computer. It's about a month and a half old. Starting last week my moniter's been acting weird. Like the screen will start to change back and forth between white and pastel yellow. Then out of nowhere...it turns as yellow as this smiley > At first I thought it was my eyes but then I got my dad up here and he said that it was the screen itself. It's getting really annoying. I've turned my computer monitor off and that didn't help. I restarted my computer and that didn't help either. Luckily I just caught it on one of it's good days(where it goes back and forth between clear and yellow) Any ideas as to what's going on? Any comments would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Great....it just turned yellow again.....

[Mangafanatic]

Ekk! Weird. . . Well, If the computer is "new" in the most common use of the word and not just new to you (I'm not knocking used computer, BTW. I'm using one right now. . . ) then I'd take it back to the store you bought it from. That's just absurd.

[termyt]

Seems like the monitor may be bad. But it could be the video card as well.

First of all, make sure the monitor is plugged snuggly into the CPU and none of the pins in the monitor cable are bent.

If that doesn't help, try plugging the monitor into a different computer and see if it's OK there and try plugging a different monitor into your computer to see if that's OK as well. If you don't have any otehr parts to swap, you may have to talk to the folks who sold you the computer.

[Oblisk]

Ekk! Weird. . . Well, If the computer is "new" in the most common use of the word and not just new to you (I'm not knocking used computer, BTW. I'm using one right now. . . ) then I'd take it back to the store you bought it from. That's just absurd.

Hmm, what video card are you using? Seems like your video card is dying...

[shooraijin]

Actually, it sounds more like a monitor issue to me as well, since when my monitors have failed, they would usually do something like lose a colour gun, or (like what she's observing) have a dramatic shift in white point. The easiest way to tell if it's the video card is, of course, to ... get another monitor. ^^ I keep a spare 15" around for that sort of testing.

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[bakura_fan]

*blinks* I am very clueless when it comes to computer's.....so far the only word I've understood is monitor. What's a video card? And I would have to see if my dad has a spare monitor. We have four computer's in this house....so we might've gotten rid of our old monitor's. My only question is if this thing is roughly a month old....why is it going bad so quickly?

[Oblisk]

*blinks* I am very clueless when it comes to computer's.....so far the only word I've understood is monitor. What's a video card? And I would have to see if my dad has a spare monitor. We have four computer's in this house....so we might've gotten rid of our old monitor's. My only question is if this thing is roughly a month old....why is it going bad so quickly?

I'd say try out with a new monitor, and if its still doing the same thing, its definatly video card related. You know where the monitor cable goes into your back of the computer?

[ssj2gohan61]

it might be the video card a computer like that was doing it at school

[ClosetOtaku]

*blinks* I am very clueless when it comes to computer's.....so far the only word I've understood is monitor. What's a video card?

A video card is a piece of hardware inside your PC that turns instructions from your PC into signals that a monitor can understand and display. The video card is located where the big cord from your monitor plugs into your PC's backplane. And, yes, the best way to test whether it's the video card is to plug in a different monitor.

My only question is if this thing is roughly a month old....why is it going bad so quickly?

All theology aside, you are just unlucky. A small percentage of all manufactured devices will fail during the warranty period due to a bad component. If it is the monitor, and it is only a month old, you should be able to get a replacement free of charge, assuming you bought it with a warranty and have done nothing to void it.

[Slater]

it sounds like your monitor might be "burned." this is what happens when you leave it on for too long without a screensaver, and the colors get kinda "stuck" like you described it. if that's the case, then there is only one thing to do... chuck it and get a new monitor. but I'd check everything else first.

[Mithrandir]

[quote="frwl"]it sounds like your monitor might be "burned." this is what happens when you leave it on for too long without a screensaver, and the colors get kinda "stuck"/QUOTE]

After a MONTH AND A HALF?!? I've had monitors burn in, sure, but only after YEARS of use. I can't think of any design flaws that would do that, either.

[Slater]

well, it happened to one of my monitors that was only 3 months old. Of course it was also made by eMachines...

[Mr. SmartyPants]

make sure that there aren't any magnets around the monitor!!!!!

[Kaligraphic]

If you have four computers in the house, try swapping monitors with one of the others. If the problem moves with the monitor, the problem is the monitor. If the problem stays with the computer, it's probably a problem with the computer.