Funky colors = bad monitor or video card?

[JCE3000GT]

So like, the past week my screen gets all funky with the colors all messed up and the sharpness nulled a little bit--but reverts back to normal after about 5-10 seconds. Could it be the monitor, video card, or a combo of both? The video card is fairly new and the monitor is fairly old (but acts ok for the most part). Any info regarding this subject is appreciated.

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[MooglyGuy]

> So like, the past week my screen gets all funky with the
> colors all messed up and the sharpness nulled a little
> bit--but reverts back to normal after about 5-10 seconds.
> Could it be the monitor, video card, or a combo of both?

Define "the colors all messed up". If it's seemingly random, then it's probably the video card. If it's not (i.e., entire hues get swapped around, a particular color drops out), it's probably the monitor.

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[World_Demise]

Hm, I'd say it's the monitor, could be in the monitor cable itself. I''ve never seen a video card go bad and screw up on screen colors.

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[MegaManJuno]

> Hm, I'd say it's the monitor, could be in the monitor cable
> itself. I''ve never seen a video card go bad and screw up on
> screen colors.
>

It can happen... the fan on my old GeForce one died over a weekend while I was away and fried some component on the board a bit due to the heat. I thought it was a monitor issue at first until I opened up the case and found the fan non-functional. Colors ended up hue-shifted and washed out a bit...

That being said, with the way it's acting, my first guess would be possibly the cable. I've seen a bad cable do that in the past. If you move the cable around while it's on and you notice the problem come and go while doing so, it's a likely chance. Barring that, I would assume the monitor is on it's way out, without knowing more of the situation and not being able to get hands-on with the hardware myself.

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[JCE3000GT]

> It can happen... the fan on my old GeForce one died over a
> weekend while I was away and fried some component on the
> board a bit due to the heat. I thought it was a monitor
> issue at first until I opened up the case and found the fan
> non-functional. Colors ended up hue-shifted and washed out
> a bit...

The fan on my GeForce FX 5200 upon cold bootup makes a horrible noise then it goes away once it's been on for about 2 or 3 minutes...does that mean the cpu could be overheating? I leave my computer on for days/weeks at a time and the color thing has only happend this past week about 4 or 5 times. I'm hoping it's just the monitor showing it's age and not the video card I spent so much money on. -_-

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[JCE3000GT]

> Define "the colors all messed up". If it's seemingly
> random, then it's probably the video card. If it's not
> (i.e., entire hues get swapped around, a particular color
> drops out), it's probably the monitor.

Mostly the hues get off, the windows grey goes light green, and sometimes light red.

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[World_Demise]

> The fan on my GeForce FX 5200 upon cold bootup makes a
> horrible noise then it goes away once it's been on for about
> 2 or 3 minutes...does that mean the cpu could be
> overheating?


The fan is dying, same thing happened to my Geforce2 GTS. Fan started making growling sounds, so I took the fan and heatsink off and got a cpu cooler from Radio shack for like 6 bucks and glued it on with crazy glue. Works fine for me.

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[prisonpants]

get off the acid

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[cipher]

Based on the description, I'd suspect the monitor is on its way out.

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[icenine0]

Have you tried... hitting it?

Also, make sure there aren't any unshielded speakers nearby.

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