Why is my monitor/screen so dim?

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uymanuyman
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hi folks,

I'm running an old B&W G3 (with a G4 inside). Anyway, the other day, my computer crashed. When I restarted it, the monitor (an old Apple 17" CRT bought with the computer) wouldn't get bright enough. I've tried using the controls on the monitor (including degaussing it), recalibrating the display through the display control panel. So I don't know what's happened. Did my monitor die? Did I fry my graphics card? Or is it an OS problem (I'm running 10.8 )? Many thanks!

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    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    Try to change the profile. Play around with ambient light and stuff like that too. I have the sRGB profile on right now, you might have for some reason selected a different one. However, displays only have a limited life. I don't understand how a newer 17" would die so fast, but it could happen.
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    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
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    Originally posted by DMBand0026

    Try to change the profile. Play around with ambient light and stuff like that too. I have the sRGB profile on right now, you might have for some reason selected a different one. However, displays only have a limited life. I don't understand how a newer 17" would die so fast, but it could happen.



    I had a similar,( but in ways even worse problem)..with one of my imacs. Not only was the screen dimming & flickering, it was also dropping the entire desktop image half way down the monitors' screen surface. I kept banging the side of monitor which cleared things up for a while..but it eventually got real bad.



    Every where I went, Apple said it would cost hundreds of dollars to fix. This naturally pissed me off as i thought it could be something like a loose connection.



    Instead of taking it the Mac specialists, I took it to a TV repair friend of mine...He quickly traced the problem back to a combination of loose connections on the back of the tube as well as a build up of some sort of brassing that electrical componets exude from passing high voltages..( he described as a build of of electrical crud )..



    Anyway, $90.dollars later & a year down the track, the screen is sparkling bright and the image is beautifully crisp on the monitor...( he would have charged me even less for the clean up except it took him an hour to figure out how to open the imac case ).



    So don't go past it being something like this..after all a computer is really not much more than a box with a TV screen.
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