Author: Victor Churchill Date: To: lug, Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Computer monitor strange behaviour
2009/6/8 Vic <lug@???> >
> > I have an old style computer monitor - probably 6 or 7 years old - which
> > has recently begun behaving oddly. It suddenly goes a deep purple
> > colour.
>
> It's probably the monitor dying - but before you bin it, *check* it's not
> something silly like the cable starting to fall out...
Very sound advice! I once had an excellent >3rd hand (ADT? ADI? can't
remember the make) 17 inch monitor, showed exactly your symptoms then
went purple permanently. Turned out one of the pins on the video cable
had got bent and wasn't actually going into the socket.