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this happened a while ago, and now i realise that its getting worse..

occasionally, but now more frequently the screen flashes and its a small
tint of blue, like the entire screen remains the same, but now with a tint of
blue.. several seconds later it will revert back to white..

now the small "tint" of blue has gotten darker, and the flashes are more
frequent..

is this a virus, or is it more likely a hardware problem, this monitor is a
Hyundai and is about 3 years old

please help soon!

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=?Utf-8?B?d2lsZGJlcnJ5?= wrote:
>
> this happened a while ago, and now i realise that its getting worse..

Well, since it's "getting" worse, that pretty much rules out a software
problems and points to hardware, either video card or monitor. Or, if
you're lucky, it's just a fan on the video card that needs cleaning or
replacement.

> occasionally, but now more frequently the screen flashes and its a small
> tint of blue, like the entire screen remains the same, but now with a tint of
> blue.. several seconds later it will revert back to white..
>
> now the small "tint" of blue has gotten darker, and the flashes are more
> frequent..
>
> is this a virus, or is it more likely a hardware problem, this monitor is a
> Hyundai and is about 3 years old

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I would bet on the monitor going bad.

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"wildberry" <wildberry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> this happened a while ago, and now i realise that its getting worse..
>
> occasionally, but now more frequently the screen flashes and its a small
> tint of blue, like the entire screen remains the same, but now with a tint
> of
> blue.. several seconds later it will revert back to white..
>
> now the small "tint" of blue has gotten darker, and the flashes are more
> frequent..
>
> is this a virus, or is it more likely a hardware problem, this monitor is
> a
> Hyundai and is about 3 years old
>
> please help soon!

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"" wrote:
> this happened a while ago, and now i realise that its getting
> worse..
>
> occasionally, but now more frequently the screen flashes and
> its a small
> tint of blue, like the entire screen remains the same, but now
> with a tint of
> blue.. several seconds later it will revert back to white..
>
> now the small "tint" of blue has gotten darker, and the
> flashes are more
> frequent..
>
> is this a virus, or is it more likely a hardware problem, this
> monitor is a
> Hyundai and is about 3 years old
>
> please help soon!

sounds more like that CRT is on its last leg, other than that maybe
check your monitor cables at the computer and back of the monitor,
look at the screen and wiggle them and see if you notice the display
flickering.

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In article <#OzSbdrfFHA.1480@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>,
Richard Urban <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I would bet on the monitor going bad.
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Richard Urban
>
>If you knew as much as you thought you know,
>You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>"wildberry" <wildberry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:36369D9A-DFD8-43B4-8D4E-D66994CE4842@microsoft.com...
>> this happened a while ago, and now i realise that its getting worse..
>>
>> occasionally, but now more frequently the screen flashes and its a small
>> tint of blue, like the entire screen remains the same, but now with a tint
>> of
>> blue.. several seconds later it will revert back to white..
>>
>> now the small "tint" of blue has gotten darker, and the flashes are more
>> frequent..
>>
>> is this a virus, or is it more likely a hardware problem, this monitor is
>> a
>> Hyundai and is about 3 years old
>>
>> please help soon!
>
>

Could be a bad cable. If one of the color signals (R, G, or B)
is intermittant you can get strange colors.

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