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Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

*almost cry

Anyway, I lend my computer to a friend, come back tonight, turn it on, and the monitor is all screwed up. Not sure exactly what is wrong -- basically, the screen is much darker than it should be. Fiddling with the brightness/contrast feature is doign nothing. It's hard to see exactly what is going on; while it's still possible, and quite feasable, it is very unpleasant.

Actually, no, change that. For some reason, lowering the brightness to ~60 makes it brighter than at 100!

Any advice?

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

Call your friend and ask them what they did?

EDIT: [Wink]

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

Sounds like your monitor is suffering from a reversal in the cathode ray tube that is making the controls do the oposite of what they're supposed to.
No not really. I just pulled all of that out of an orafice of some kind.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Phanto:
Fiddling with the brightness/contrast feature is doign nothing...Any advice?

I don't know what to tell you. My monitor doesn't even have a brightness/contrast feature.

Maybe you are thinking of one of these.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

Yeah, I knew that was coming.... [Smile]

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

I got it to work, though I have no idea how. Oh well. Now off to trash my friend's computer [Smile]

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

I was going to suggest that you are a little old for a moniter- they only leave them in kids for 3 years... you don't have the brains of a bugger! [Big Grin]

Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :

How do you know that I'm not secretly a Bugger spy, Orincoro? Huh? Well?

[Wink]

Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :

I am assuming you are... I mean that is the only reasonable explanation. [Big Grin]

Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :

Orinoco, I was trying to come up w/ a dobie for that kinda monitor but luckily for all the dobie haters I didn't have time to find a good link! ;-)

Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :

Glad you got it to work. I had my computer monitor die a very slow and painful death last year. First it just turned everything yellow whenever it felt like, then it would just go black whenever it felt like and while still doing both it would force me to leave the monitor off for a good amount of time if I wanted to use it.

I am glad to say, I now have new computer monitor.