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My monitor just turned yellow/green for no apparent reason. It's a MAG Innovision DX1595, a really old model. Advice?
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Loose/funky cable.
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Get a new monitor. Plat panel. 22". $1000 at my local Future Shop.
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YT300000 wrote:Get a new monitor. Plat panel. 22". $1000 at my local Future Shop.
Ugh, that's an expensive solution. The most likely problem is a pinched or otherwise messed-up monitor cable (I've seen this problem before on CRT monitors).
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How hot is the monitor running?...that used to happen on my old radiator of a monitor before I started keeping the room cold
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There are no apparent problems with the cable. As for the monitor running hot? Not really, I have a fan in the room and A/C.
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Durran Korr wrote:There are no apparent problems with the cable. As for the monitor running hot? Not really, I have a fan in the room and A/C.
The cable might look normal but still be defective. Check the pins, fiddle with it, see what happens.
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Dalton wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:There are no apparent problems with the cable. As for the monitor running hot? Not really, I have a fan in the room and A/C.
The cable might look normal but still be defective. Check the pins, fiddle with it, see what happens.
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SyntaxVorlon wrote:
Dalton wrote:
Durran Korr wrote:There are no apparent problems with the cable. As for the monitor running hot? Not really, I have a fan in the room and A/C.
The cable might look normal but still be defective. Check the pins, fiddle with it, see what happens.
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Durran Korr wrote:My monitor just turned yellow/green for no apparent reason. It's a MAG Innovision DX1595, a really old model. Advice?
Kick your computer, shake your moniter violently with both hands, one on either side.

The computer should wet itself with this display of anger, and the overabundance of yellow will disappear onto the floor.
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Post by phongn »

Jiggle the cables a bit - the same thing happened to me before. If that doesn't work, NEC or Mitsubishi "SB" line of monitors are quite good.
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I use a 19'' flat screen trinitron. The classic.
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