7900GT Desktop Has Yellow Tinge

[Coops07]

Hey, I just installed my new 7900GT and everything is working fine. I installed the mobo + video card drivers but it seems there is a yellow tinge on the desktop... its not just the desktop either the bios screen while starting up has a yellow tinge to it as well... any thoughts how I can make it the right colours again??

 

[nannerla]

get coolbits 2 and there will be a thing in the control center about color correction and mess with it there till its right.

O and in you monitors control panel ting there should be a setting about degrees kelvin and the higher that is the bluer. the lower the moregreen , yellow ,orange ,red or finally bl;ack it is. Degrees kelvin for lights and monitors is a measurement of if you took a black body,carbon, and heated it up to a certain point kelvin wat color it would be.

 

[Mobius]

Adjust "Colour Temperature" on your monitor until it looks right to you.

 

[Nitro350Z]

check your monitor color settings, they might be messed up, i dont know how tho

otherwise i dont know

 

[hatsurfer]

Just a thought... Check to see if any of the pins are bent on your moniter cable. You could have bent one when plugging it in and that would yield some strange results.

 

[Finny]

when i got my innovision 7900gt and tightend the dvi to d-sub adaptors with my fingers my screen was blue! so i had to really tighten the adptors HARD with a screwdriver!

that mich be your problem! it was certainly mine!

Whoops i forgot to say that my screen colour is fine now

 

[linux_0]

Hey, I just installed my new 7900GT and everything is working fine. I installed the mobo + video card drivers but it seems there is a yellow tinge on the desktop... its not just the desktop either the bios screen while starting up has a yellow tinge to it as well... any thoughts how I can make it the right colours again??

As hatsurfer suggested, check your cables. A loose or malfunctioning cable or bent or broken pins my cause the symptoms you describe.

By advised some cables are supposed to be missing some pins.

If you have a CRT try a degauss and see if that helps and as others have suggested play with your color temperatures if your display has temperature settings :-D

Color matching software may help too.


What are your full specs by the way?

Have you been able to try the card in any other computers or with other displays?

 

[chuckshissle]

Can you post a picture thingie?

 

[linux_0]

Can you post a picture thingie?

I knew I had forgotten something..... you beat me to it :-D :trophy:




@ OP

I am not sure if you have a CRT or an LCD but sometimes CRTs start to act funny when they age or are about to die. LCDs may also act strangely as they age.

 

[Coops07]

Specs:
AMD A64 3000+
Asus K8N4-E Deluxe
EVGA 7900GT CO
Viewsonic G70FB (CRT)
Windows XP Pro

Thanks for all the help guys. I have a strong feeling maybe the adapter isint plugged in enough. I have 2 adapters just in case something happened but I doubt it did. As well, the monitor is only 1 year old and when I had my 9800Pro last week everything worked fine so I'll check it out when I get home today. And it's not the drivers because I did a reformat. Thanks for all you help so far, I'll keep you informed when I get home.

 

[Coops07]

I was giggling around with the cables and it IS the adapter that just insint plugged in good enough. When I fiddle around with it, it changes to blue and green tinges and 2 times i've gotten it to go to the actual default colour. What did you mean by using a screwdriver to tighten it? The VGA adapter is tightened by hand. Im gunna have to bust out a pair of plyers or some tape. Whichever gets the job done. I'll tell you guys when I get it good.

 

[Coops07]

Success!! Had to hold it up a little as it was limping down then tighten it hard, now everything is good! Thanks for your help guys! Off to play some RGB Oblivion

 

[linux_0]

Success!! Had to hold it up a little as it was limping down then tighten it hard, now everything is good! Thanks for your help guys! Off to play some RGB Oblivion

:-D

Good to hear you fixed it!