Baby Blue!

[ut1205]

I have a seven year old Packard Bell monitor that I am still using. It's a 15" and works fine except the areas that are supposed to be white are a pale blue. Are there any internal or external adjustments I can make to get the white back. I know the hazards associated with a monitor.

[Force Flow]

7 years old? I think you'd be better off getting a new one. The 15" ones are cheap enough. Or if price is an object, get a referbed one.

To me, it sounds like the monitor is "burned" (I'm assuming a few things here). When you leave your monitor on for long, long periods of time on the same screen with nothing changed, it tends to burn that image onto the screen. In your case, if you've been using it for 7 years, it may just be all worn out in places.

[juppy]

With a monitor that old there could be any number of problems that are going to start showing up. It could be one of the color guns is getting weak and starting to go out. It could be burn in, like mentioned above also. Probably would be cheaper and safer to just get a new one. At 7 years old, its lived its life and then some.

[Charger]

You've gotten your money's worth (7yrs!) Sounds like some pixels are going bad. Do you and your EYES a favor get a new monitor, the faster refresh rate and smaller dpi will be wonderful on your eyes.

[larry1135]

I've read here and there that 17" monitors are better for the eyes. Less strain plus they are very affordable. As far as adjustments every monitor has diffrent adjustments you could try contrast and color if it has it, but never go into the monitors case unless you are a monitor tech. They hold a lot of stored voltage.

[glc]

You might be able to get a little more life out of it by doing gamma or RGB corrections in your video driver settings - if you have them.

[GaryRouth]

The settings that glc mentions are in Start/Settings/Control Panel/Display/Settings/Advanced . . . and look for "Color" or "Gamma Correction": these come with your video card. Some cards have these settings, some don't.

You can also try jiggling the cable from the video card to the monitor, sometimes after years of moving this way and that it's a little dicey just where it goes into the back of the monitor (don't jiggle it on the video card end, just on the monitor's end). I've seen loose cables turn the colors all purple too: Rather psychadelic and interesting, but hard to read.

If the time has come for a new monitor - I like the Trintron (apeture grille) type monitors. Look for a .25 dot pitch, text will be nice and clean, colors bright and smooth. The going rate for such CRTs here in L.A. (on sale) is about $120 USD.
. . . Gary

[Insanepyro69]

try jiggling the base of the monitor cord in the back i've had serval montitors with the same problem you've described and that always end up being the problem.... Hope that somehow might help