Thursday, April 14, 2016

Monitor has cast / hue / coloured tinge

So, my beautiful Samsung 2333T had this yellowish cast when plugged into my laptop.

It's a VGA or DVI monitor and a laptop with HDMI out, using an HDMI to VGA converter.

Annoying! I finally had enough, and contacted Samsung, chatted with an agent, and he had me try one thing and it solved the problem. More or less he had me unplug it from the computer and plug it back in.

Lately it's been happening again, and my dodgy memory of the last service call had me unplugging, waiting from 0 seconds to 60 seconds, and plugging it back in, to no avail.

So I finally tried to chat again, and while I was waiting to connect with an agent, I read a few things in the FAQ. One of the things I read was on a monitor with a pinkish cast. It talked about the problem being with the cable - change the cable. Focusing on the cable, I came up with something else to try:

Leave the HDMI-VGA converter plugged into the laptop, and only unplug the VGA cable, and re-plug it back in. Or try changing which END of the cable plugs into the laptop and which plugs into the monitor; probably only one end is dodgy, and if this is plugged into the monitor, it won't wiggle around as much, and your problem will be far less frequent.

Problem solved! What a relief! My eyes can relearn the colour white, now.

Good luck!