[G4] monitor gone yellow

[Richard Klein]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Margaret Krakowiak
<imago at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> This morning in the middle of reading email,
> my monitor suddenly went yellow. It's like a clear
> yellow overlay - anything white is yellow, and it overlays
> other colors, like my blue desktop background is now green.
> I turned the monitor off and on, rebooted, no change.
> It's a ViewSonic monitor, a CRT, not flat panel.
> Does anyone have any ideas on what this means, or
> any way to get my white back? I do a lot of graphics work, so
> even though I can read text ok, obviously I can't do any color
> graphics work with this situation :-(

Margaret,
   Unplug your monitor cable from the back of your computer.  Make
sure the pins in the connector aren't dirty, corroded, or bent, then
plug it back in.  If that doesn't fix things, wiggle the cable.  That
should make any intermittent breaks in the cable become apparent.
Beyond that, I'm no television repairman, but I think it would be a
failing power supply in the monitor, or leaking capacitors.  You
probably don't want to tackle those things on your own.  If it were an
LCD, I'd suspect the inverter, but CRTs don't have inverters.

-- 
Rich