color red gone please help

[Gman46]

Was wondering if anyone can help me.

i have a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE and running Vista Pro 32
Its been 3 weeks i lost the color red. Mind you it came and went a few times. Also in the NVIDIA control panel i can adjust the other colors but red doesnt react. I have tried many drivers and still no fix.

Can anyone help?

Monitor is fine i have tried it on my other pc.

Thx

 

[zigzag3143]

Was wondering if anyone can help me.

i have a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE and running Vista Pro 32
Its been 3 weeks i lost the color red. Mind you it came and went a few times. Also in the NVIDIA control panel i can adjust the other colors but red doesnt react. I have tried many drivers and still no fix.

Can anyone help?

Monitor is fine i have tried it on my other pc.

Thx

Gman

It feels like a hardware issue more than software. Might be a bent pin on the graphic card or cable or a loose wire on the card. Can you pull the graphic card and try it on another machine?

Ken J

 

[Gman46]

I can't do that. I got a HP Pavilion Slimline which the card is on the motherboard. I tried removing and putting th cable back but didn't work. I guess i can still open up the PC and check it out. Strange thing is that a few days ago it went back to normal but only lasted a few minutes.

 

[JimJoe]

If it came back, I lean towards bad cable.

I say that as once the card goes bad, it isn't likely to recover.

Hmm... Have you tried different monitors ? Or checked the cable to the monitor ?

I have seen monitors go out more often than video cards, in my experience anyway.

edit:

On second thought. Its the cable or monitor. The pin on the cable supplying red could be it. Or the red color electronics in the monitor is bad.

Change monitors, and if that isn't it then try another video cable.

 

[Gman46]

Not sure cause i connected the monitor with the same cable to my laptop and everything works fine. Only when i put it back on my pc this happenes. I thought it would be the drivers being faulty with vista.

thx for helping

 

[jonny321321]

are you solved or u need more help?

 

[Gman46]

no still going crazy. I wish there was a way i can test the grafic card. Makes no sense to me cause in the control panel i can adjust the other colors but the red doesnt even slide its as if its the software.

just nuts

 

[Mark Phelps]

Well, you've ruled out the monitor and the cable, and it's unlikely to be video drivers or setup -- unless you've been messing with the Gamma setting or the RGB mixes.

The most likely culprit is the video chipset in the HP. And, if that's true, the only fix will be an add-in card --which, if there is no room for expansion in the case, rules that out as well.

I'm guessing the unit has been out of warranty for a long time as well, right?

 

[Gman46]

well this what i have done....
got a new video card and nothing doing. I checked out some motherboards and i got one that will match under $65CDN and a new tower Under $60CDN so gonna transfer everything over. Its not costing me much and now i can actually add to my pc which with a slimline u cant. Will post to see if it was my motherboard.

thxs

 

[bartikas]

I had the same problem, also since 3-4 weeks ago. I use a laptop (HP Pavillion DV9000) with an external monitor hooked up. I mistakingly had "autoupdate" setup on my windows vista, and it had updated a new video driver (nvidia). Everything went green (basically, I lost all red). I tried rolling back the driver, but that came close to shutting down my computer (had to system restore). On system restore I got my colors back, but only for a week... it went green again.

For me I could get red from the laptop screen, but not the extended monitor.

I stumbled over the solution.

I right clicked on my desktop screen, clicked the "Nvidia Control Panel."

That didn't load.

So
1. I went to "my computer," click the C:\ and searched Nvidia.
2. I went into the Nvidia folder, clicked the "Display" folder, clicked "Setup" and it tried to setup my drivers.
3. It came up with a message saying it couldn't find the necessary drivers, but as that message came up, my screen instantly went back to normal and has stayed that way since.

Got me ??? But it works.