Hope someone can help me because this is driving me crazy and Googling has not helped.
Somehow all of my menus and screens that would normally display as gray are displaying as pink. It just started yesterday. I first noticed it on Facebook and for a second thought it was some kind of Breast Cancer awareness thing but then realized my menus looked Pink too. So I thought it was my bowser but then realized it was all my programs so it has to be a windows setting somewhere.
I have been digging through Windows’ display settings but nothing changes it back. I did install a new driver earlier yesterday but I am sure the issue started after. To be safe I rolled back the driver and it didn’t help. I tried a system restore as well. Anyone see anything like this before? Any ideas? It is very annoying.
My OS is Windows 7 and my Graphics card is an ATI 5870. Thanks for any advice.
I wanted to edit to add that I don’t think it is a hardware issue because I went to some color test sites and colors are displaying properly. It seems some setting in windows is telling it to display as pink.
Despite your online color testing I’d still try another monitor + cable on the system to check output. What you describe is usually a hardware issue the large majority of the time.
yep, with DVI/HDMI or LVDS digital connections, a bad connection or problem with the panel controller or transmitter can cause color screwups. In fact, the few times I’ve run into display problems like that, the failure mode was bands of pink where they didn’t belong.
Thanks for the quick responses. Minutes after posting this, I got the idea to do a print screen and send it to my other PC. On this PC it looked pink on the other it was indeed gray. Unplugging and plugging back in the Monitor from the video card fixed the issue.
Thanks again. I wonder if this thread is a record for quickest time from OP to resolution.
Update: issue came back. Several attempts at plugging and unplugging haven’t fixed it. I just ordered a new HDMI to DVI cable. Crossing my fingers. For now I have to live with a bubblegum colored PC (local radio shack’s cables cost $20 more than online so I will wait for it to come to me).
I had this happen on my desktop when I first installed the Windows 7 RC. I never figured it out. I ended up switching back to Vista for like four months. I tried Win 7 again and it was gone.
When it happened, I nuked the install, but it started up again after a few days. It didn’t seem immediately connected to something I installed, but it must’ve been. It wasn’t hardware, since I didn’t have a hardware change. Do you have Adobe CS installed?
Not adobe but the day it first happened I had updated my drivers but rollbacks didn’t take it away. Originally I was convinced it was software but as you can see above, fiddling with the cable seemed to fix it so now I don’t know…