Apparent video problem with new monitor

[Steven Celli]

I purchased a new Samsung 213T LCD monitor and installed the drivers that
came with it. But my color appears washed out. I tried the generic
plug-and-play monitor drivers and it looks the same way. I have tried the
monitor on 3 different PC's and the monitor is perfectly fine, so I thought
it might be my video card. I have an AGP GeForce 3 Ti-200 with the latest
drivers. I even unistalled it and installed an API Radeon 9000 with still
the same problem of washed-out color. I am going crazy: can an AGP slot on
the motherboard go awry and be messed up? All my connections are fine as far
as I know.

BTW: the reason I bought the monitor is because the last 2 weeks or so my
ViewSonic CRT monitor would occasionaly flicker and I just figured the thing
was getting ready to go. Now I am not sure.
Has anyone ever heard of this? Could the AGP slot actually have gone bad on
me and be shorted some place, allowing me to still have a monitor but with
crummy colors?
The best example I can give is that the solid color black looks like dark
purple. Even the boot-up screen which is normally solid black looks that
way.
Help!


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Best Wishes,
Steven Celli


"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."
William Shakespeare

[CWatters]

It sounds like you have tried the right things but...

When you tried the monitor on another PC did you use the same input mode on
the monitor? eg Does the monitor have both digital and analog inputs?
Perhaps one input mode is working and the other not?

It's extreemly unlikely to be the motherboard AGP slot itself. It's very
hard to think of a failure mode that gives the effect you see on just one
monitor.