Washed out colors indication of monitor dying?

[eedmond]

I have noticed recently my 21" Hitachi 875M monitor has been doing some odd things. It never did this with my old video card so not sure which it is.

My old video card was a GF4TI4800SE-8X. New one is a Radeon 9800 Pro. It did not happen right away after switching the cards. I have had the card about 5 months now and the monitor has been acting up for the last month.

What it does is everything looks normal then all of a sudden it appears the brightness is turned up and everything looks washed out and bland. Then after awhile it will go back to being normal. It has done this now more frequently. Happend once about a month ago and then in this last week it has happened two more times. Right now as I type this it is all washed out.

I have a dual monitor setup and the other monitor has not done this and they are both plugged into the Radeon so it must be the monitor. The monitor is about 6 years old.

Kind of sucks because my mothers computer's monitor is doing similar things. It has a old TNT2 and the card has not changed in that since the TNT2 came out.

Just wanted to verify that it was probably the monitor. Guess I should keep my eyes out for a new one.

Thanks,
Eric

[imaeditedbysowulo]

Yup it's probably the monitor. You could try lowering the refresh rate a few Hz, that might put the signal back into a range that the monitor can still handle, but I'd be shopping for a new monitor if I were you.

[Platypus]

If the monitors have the same connector (ie both 15-pin VGA not one DVI or the like) swap them and see if the same monitor still has the problem.

As ima has said, very likely it is the monitor on the way out - although, it may only have a minor fault, but it's generally not worth trying to fix an old monitor.

[eedmond]

If the monitors have the same connector (ie both 15-pin VGA not one DVI or the like) swap them and see if the same monitor still has the problem.

As ima has said, very likely it is the monitor on the way out - although, it may only have a minor fault, but it's generally not worth trying to fix an old monitor.

The second connector is a DVI with a DVI-VGA adapter on it. I will just wait till it kicks the bucket before I worry any more about it. I can't afford to buy a new one right now anyway.

Thanks for your Help,

Eric