Monitor display

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Monitor display is dark, particularly pictures. Nothing has changed.
Checked monitor settings and is set to brightest. Checked resolution. Where
else can the problem be? Thanks.

 

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Hi,

Same thing happen in Safe mode? If so, the monitor may be dying.

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"Donna V" <dvonderau@swfla.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Monitor display is dark, particularly pictures. Nothing has changed.
> Checked monitor settings and is set to brightest. Checked resolution.
> Where
> else can the problem be? Thanks.
>
>
>

 

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In news:Y0m2e.9052$vd.3949@tornado.tampabay.rr.com,
Donna V <dvonderau@swfla.rr.com> typed:

> Monitor display is dark, particularly pictures. Nothing has
> changed.
> Checked monitor settings and is set to brightest. Checked
> resolution. Where else can the problem be? Thanks.


Sounds like an aging, failing monitor, not a Windows problem.

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i would first make sure you have your video drivers up to
date, before trashing your monitor.

>-----Original Message-----
>In news:Y0m2e.9052$vd.3949@tornado.tampabay.rr.com,
>Donna V <dvonderau@swfla.rr.com> typed:
>
>> Monitor display is dark, particularly pictures.
Nothing has
>> changed.
>> Checked monitor settings and is set to brightest.
Checked
>> resolution. Where else can the problem be? Thanks.
>
>
>Sounds like an aging, failing monitor, not a Windows
problem.
>
>--
>Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>Please reply to the newsgroup
>
>
>.
>

 

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Try the monitor on another computer to ensure it is not your video adaptor.

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"Donna V" <dvonderau@swfla.rr.com> wrote in message
news:Y0m2e.9052$vd.3949@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
> Monitor display is dark, particularly pictures. Nothing has changed.
> Checked monitor settings and is set to brightest. Checked resolution.
> Where
> else can the problem be? Thanks.
>
>
>

 

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In news:0fac01c534e1$213f9c30$a501280a@phx.gbl,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:

> i would first make sure you have your video drivers up to
> date, before trashing your monitor.


It certainly doesn't hurt to do as you suggest, but note that
Donna says "Nothing has changed," which strongly suggests that
this is a recent problem. If it were a video driver problem, it
would be unlikely to have suddenly started.

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> In news:Y0m2e.9052$vd.3949@tornado.tampabay.rr.com,
>> Donna V <dvonderau@swfla.rr.com> typed:
>>
>>> Monitor display is dark, particularly pictures. Nothing has
>>> changed.
>>> Checked monitor settings and is set to brightest. Checked
>>> resolution. Where else can the problem be? Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Sounds like an aging, failing monitor, not a Windows problem.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>>
>> .

 

[Chuck]

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The video card can also have a problem that will cause this symptom.
"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
news:uvI$tbMNFHA.940@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> In news:Y0m2e.9052$vd.3949@tornado.tampabay.rr.com,
> Donna V <dvonderau@swfla.rr.com> typed:
>
>> Monitor display is dark, particularly pictures. Nothing has changed.
>> Checked monitor settings and is set to brightest. Checked
>> resolution. Where else can the problem be? Thanks.
>
>
> Sounds like an aging, failing monitor, not a Windows problem.
>
> --
> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>

 

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In news:%23dcRXjJPFHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
Chuck <nospm@msn.com> typed:

> The video card can also have a problem that will cause this
> symptom.


Perhaps, but I personally think the monitor is much more likely
to fail gradually in this way than the video card.

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> "Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:uvI$tbMNFHA.940@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> In news:Y0m2e.9052$vd.3949@tornado.tampabay.rr.com,
>> Donna V <dvonderau@swfla.rr.com> typed:
>>
>>> Monitor display is dark, particularly pictures. Nothing has
>>> changed. Checked monitor settings and is set to brightest.
>>> Checked
>>> resolution. Where else can the problem be? Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Sounds like an aging, failing monitor, not a Windows problem.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup