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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: POSTMAN477 on September 30, 2005, 21:11

Title: red screen.......
Post by: POSTMAN477 on September 30, 2005, 21:11

Turned on my laptop this evening to find the screen with a red ish tinge??any ideas?

Title: red screen.......
Post by: Simon on September 30, 2005, 21:37

Is there a speaker near the screen?  That might do it.  Otherwise, if it's similar to a desktop monitor, there should be a 'degauss' facility somewhere in the screen settings.  On a desktop, this is usually found in the menus accessible with the buttons on the front / side of the monitor.  Failing both of those, it could be a graphics card problem, or just the display settings.  Try right clicking the desktop and select Properties.  You should find a Settings tab, and an Advanced button, which may enable access to your graphics settings.  As I said, I'm only guessing all this, from a desktop monitor prospective, so apologies if it's all wrong.

Title: red screen.......
Post by: sam on October 01, 2005, 23:36

out of interest, you haven't been using any astronomy software have you? I use this sort of thing quite often and always forget to change the setting back. This means that I spend about 5 minutes trying to fix the problem with my graphics card, thats when I remember the astronomy program running!

Title: screene
Post by: POSTMAN477 on October 02, 2005, 21:19

not sure what happened but its sorted itself out....thanx guys.