Display problem

mickdw

Hi

Ive this old machine & a while ago, the quality of the display went to crap. I plugged in a different monitor & no change.
Any heavy colours tend to spread across the screen.

Here is a pic of the problem...


Any ideas what the problem is? Will a new graphics card help? I know little about computers.

Solitaire

Try altering the colour and contrast settings of the screen. It may be dying though. I don't think the graphics are at fault here.

mickdw

have been through everything i can change in settings. when you say dying, do you mean the whoe computer is f*cked?

Solitaire

Nope, just the display.

mickdw

But I swapped monitors already, no improvement

Solitaire

Sorry, miread your post. Try a different cable, preferably on a different port on your graphics card, that's an odd issue for a GPU to have but you can get this kind of problem with duff connectors or cabling.

mickdw

I ordered a similar graphics card to whats installed for a few euro off ebay, Will have a look at it & do a bit of swapping when that arrives