Question about my monitor

nunz · Post by **nunz** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 6:42 am

Hello

Recently I put in a new Geforce4 into my system. Also recently, my monitor appears to have a blue tint to it.

The tint only lasts for awhile, but it always comes back. Is it caused by the new video card, or by my monitor?

The video card is brand new out of the box... the monitor is about 4 years old.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

-Nunz

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 9:42 pm

Does it do it with the old card ?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat Jun 29, 2002 10:38 pm

You sure it's not a loose connection? Wiggle the monitor cable where it connects to the video card.

Look in the connector and make sure there aren't any bent pins.

As for the card, you should be using the latest official Detonator drivers, not what came with the card. Go here: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=drivers

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 7:51 pm

I don't have the blue tint, but another minor problem instead.

My KDS 17" Xtreme flat is brand new (6weeks 0r less) and was working great on a Pent 133 64 megs ram probly 1-4 meg pci video. The monitor would fire up fast and I could watch the system boot up!

I just built this Iwill XP333 with a 64mg ddr ATI AIW 7500 radeon and 256mg ddr. Now my monitor fires up SLOW, I am past most of the boot screens as it fads into view. Have to geuss when to hit delete to enter setup as it is over with by the time the monitor has a picture. This is even after running it awhile then doing a reboot, so it's not a warmup problem, nor did it do this on the old computer I save as a spare for geusts. Don't know if I need to change a Cmos/bios setting or what. It did not do this on the OLD system with a PCI card so it's not actually the monitor, but something to do with the new system and videocard. This ATI card is a AGP card, and I think I have it set correctly in bios, not positive. I've been using PCI video cards in all my systems till now.

Other than that, it still works great, no problem with the monitor or system, and I even captured a few stills with the video capture tv tuner.

Any Ideas? Minor problem, but very annoying as I like to watch the sysem boot at times, especially after making any bios changes or adding new harddware.

canton_kid

Schwartz · Post by **Schwartz** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 9:25 pm

canton_kid

I don't have that paticular mobo or video card. These suggestions might apply to you or might not. In you mobo bios do you have it set to init PCI vid first by chance? If so try changing it to AGP. Also does that video card have two video outputs? Maybe you are hooked to the second and it takes until Windows fires up, notices that there is no monitor on the primary output and then switches to the second one because it sees the monitor there.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 9:39 pm

I'll double check the bios, I think that is set to AGP init, but could be wrong.

The monitor does come up before windows starts to load, but it is slow. I only have one connector on this card for display.

Something I forgot to mention, is this card has DVI out connector, and uses an adapter to connect the Crt monitor cable. Did not have to do that on the other system, it had only CRT.

canton_kid

Schwartz · Post by **Schwartz** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 10:51 pm

I have a Geforce T14600 with dual DVI outputs. I have 2 flat panel displays, one with DVI and one with a regular 15-pin connector. I use the adapter as you do to hook the 15-pin panel to the DVI connector. If I remember correctly no matter which way I had them hooked up the analog one would always come up first. If I just had the digital panel hooked up alone it came on normally. But as long as the analog was there it was first. I guess it just depends on what card you are running. They all probably have their quirks.

Schwartz · Post by **Schwartz** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 10:55 pm

Back to the original post I would look at the pins like they said. If that isn't it try another card if you can. If it still does it I would say it is the monitor.

I had one go purple on me once. Don't try this at home but I opened it up and stuck a mirror in front of the screen. While it was on and opened up I tweaked the pots until the color was correct again.