Can anyone out in the Countryside Family help me with this one? My computer screen is blue and fuzzy. All of the words are blue and even the black white spaces are tinted blue with light blue diagonal lines running arcross the whole screen. After a while, the whole screen turns completely blue and I can't even see where to turn off the computer. Yesterday, it didn't turn all blue at all. Sometimes it does. Is this something that will cost me a lot of money to have fixed ? I guess I'll be going to the library again for my in between magazines, Countryside fix. Thank you in advance. Pam Pitts

-- Pam Pitts (msjanedoe@hotmail.com), November 11, 2000

Answers

Sorry, gang! That's BLANK white spaces (not Black). It's time for me to sign off for a while anyway. Your just getting bluer.Chow!

-- Pam Pitts (msjanedoe@hotmail.com), November 11, 2000.

Pam, that sounds like a problem with the monitor itself. Do you have another one you can plug in to try? Could you borrow one from a friend for a little while? If you can be sure it is the monitor, you can probably get a used one pretty cheap. I've seen people throw them away. You can even catch a new one on sale for about $150.00 (17") Good luck with it.

-- Jim (catchthesun@yahoo.com), November 11, 2000.

Pam, I had the same type of problem with the 13 in IBM monitor I hooked up on this wind up computer I use. I defaulted my display properties and let the wizard reinstall the monitor. After settings were set by the wizard, resolution improved.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), November 11, 2000.

There are three color guns in a color monitor, red - blue - greem; hence RBG monitor. Sounds like one has failed. Take it into a computer ship and have checked. They SHOULD NOT charge anything as it is real simple to check. DO NOT have it fixed, cheaper to buy a good used one. ( Also, you can check it out on a neighbors system. Just unplug theirs and plug yours in. Color should work.)

-- JLS (stalkingbull007@AOL.com), November 11, 2000.

Thank you all for your answers. A problem with my monitor is better than what I had feared - some problem with the motherboard or something else just as bad. Will check into this and see you all later in more than 1 color.

-- Pam Pitts (msjanedoe@hotmail.com), November 12, 2000.

Hi Pam
This might be a little late..... Like the others said, it might be one of the electron guns in the monitor itself.
It might also be your monitor cable -either the pins connecting to your video card and/or the monitor (some monitors dont have the cable permanently attached). You might also have a bad wire inside the cable itself, a possible high-tech way of testing the cable is to wiggle the cable and watch your monitor.
Its probably the monitor though....

Hope this helps

Dave

-- Dave (AK) (daveh@ecosse.net), November 14, 2000.