laconic1

System Specs
Video Card: Radeon 9000 64MB AGP
Monitor: KDS Visual Sensations vs19-sn
Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-X
Processor: Athlon XP 2400+

Every now and then my display will turn pink. Sometimes the color flickers where the whole screen is tinted pink, other times the screen is tinted pink for several minutes or hours, occasionally it will stay normal. It is like the green part of the display drops out. It does it under Windows XP and Kubuntu Linux, so I don't think it is a driver issue. I just don't know how to isolate the problem any further since I don't have a spare video card or monitor to check it with.

shakran

if i had to guess, your monitor is probably dying. Specifically you're losing the green gun, just as you noted. I'm guessing your display is more purply/magenta than true pink.

cyrnel

Does it do it more or less after warmed up?

Never hurts to make sure the signal cable is firmly attached at both ends. Try wiggling the ends while watching the screen. Every now and then it's something simple. (fingers crossed)

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laconic1

Yea, magenta would be a more accurate description of the color. I tried doing the wiggle thing, all connections are good. It is so intermittent, sometimes it does it as soon as I start the computer up, sometimes it doesn't do it hardly at all. Oh well, I guess five years out of a cheapo Walmart monitor isn't too bad. If it is the monitor I will finally be able to justify the upgrade to a LCD.

Deltona Couple

Do you have a backup monitor? (old upgrade) or a neighbor who has one? I would try a different monitor first, as a test, before spending good money on something that doesn't fix the problem....just in case...

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laconic1

No, I don't have access to another monitor. I wish this problem had started about two months ago, my work upgraded about 10 peoples computers from CRTs to LCDs and just gave away the old ones. I would have taken one if I knew of the potential need coming up.

Jinn

I'm voting for the monitor. I had one that went completely magenta, and another that faded through the center. I've also had three video cards blow up, and they're entirely more grandiose. Tons of multicolored vertical lines, complete computer lockups, vertical shearing, the awesome stuff.

Usually if you lose a color it's an old CRT, simply becuase that electron gun is dying.

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laconic1

Well, it ended up being the monitor. It stayed magenta all the time, luckily when I was at my parents house the other day I found an ancient 14" monitor to tide me over until this arrives.