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korrianderkorriander Registered User regular
edited January 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
My monitor decided as of three a.m. this morning it no longer wants to display in color. My computer automatically updates at three a.m. and turned on to update with full color for a few seconds before reverting to b&w. Restarting now has the same effect. Sometimes color lasts throught the login screen, sometimes not. My drivers are updates as of today.

My monitor is an Acer x223w. Graphics card is Nvidia Geforce 9800gtx+. Running them with 32bit Vista. Everything is updated and otherwise working perfectly. Halp!

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  • WonderMinkWonderMink Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    korriander wrote: »
    My monitor decided as of three a.m. this morning it no longer wants to display in color. My computer automatically updates at three a.m. and turned on to update with full color for a few seconds before reverting to b&w. Restarting now has the same effect. Sometimes color lasts throught the login screen, sometimes not. My drivers are updates as of today.

    My monitor is an Acer x223w. Graphics card is Nvidia Geforce 9800gtx+. Running them with 32bit Vista. Everything is updated and otherwise working perfectly. Halp!

    You haven't like... set the colors in properties to grayscale or anything right? go check what your colors are set to.

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  • SipexSipex Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Check your software settings, try un-plugging it from the wall and PC then plugging it back in.

    If that doesn't work, check the pins on the vga cable (the one that attaches the monitor to the CPU), see if any are bent or look loose.

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  • jszarkajszarka Registered User new member
    edited January 2010
    I am having the same exactly the same problem. Are you running Windows Vista 64 bit? I have tryied to upgrade the nvidia drivers and it worked for a second then went back to b and w.

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  • korrianderkorriander Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ok, in the Nvidia control panel, adjusting digital vibrance and hue is bringing the color back, but it doesn't quite look normal. What is the normal settings for those? Hue was set down to 0 degrees and vibrance to 2% before I changed them. Why would vibrance have (nearly) been turned off?

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