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I've got red markings over all images on my monitor; digital photos look horrible because of this. The markings are like tracers, hard to describe it any other way.

Does this sound like a virus, or just a bad monitor?

[edwardcyh]

What do you mean "red markings?"

Sometimes dead pixels on LCD monitors "misbehave," and show colors that they are not suppose to. That's obviously what you hope for.

Are these markings random on your screen?

[Pimped Out]

do the markings move? are they always there?

the easiest thing to do is just hook it up to another monitor (maybe take it to work or ask a friend) and see if they are still

[xray]

Thanks for the replies.

The markings don't move, but rather appear on most people in a picture or around any random object. My avatar's hair is fuzzy and pink, for example.

The advice to forward a picture to work and see if it appears there is great. I print the pictures here at home, and the markings appear on the sheet; so that's the next step for diagnosis.

Thanks.

[Pimped Out]

if the marks are printing, it sounds like a graphics card problem or something

[xray]

Downloaded a group of pictures on a disc, and brought it to work.

The disc looked crappy at home, but great here at work. So, is it the monitor? If it was the graphics card, wouldn't the disc be affected no matter where it was viewed?

[edwardcyh]

Well, I don't think it's the graphics card, since your printer is printing what's on the screen, right?

Video driver and printer drivers are completely separate processes, and, if those two are synchronized in producing junk, your problem must be else where.

Did you recently install any new software?

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Originally Posted by edwardcyh

Well, I don't think it's the graphics card, since your printer is printing what's on the screen, right?

Right.

Originally Posted by edwardcyh

Did you recently install any new software?

No.

[Ninjatune]

It must be all that porn.

[VeN]

screenshot please

[VeN]

Originally Posted by Ninjatune

It must be all that porn.

omfg your icon reminds me of IT

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Originally Posted by VeN

screenshot please

Wouldn't do any good (not the porn, the red glow). If you guys can't see my avatar having red hair - and I can't either at work - then it's just the viewing done at the home computer.

I'm thinking the monitor's the culprit; we got a new HP system and BB threw in a flat panel monitor as part of the package. It's not an HP - though they're probably all refurbed by AL's pick-u-part anyway...

[VeN]

check it with a new monitor in that case, also if it were the vid card youd prolly have more probs than that

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Originally Posted by VeN

check it with a new monitor in that case, also if it were the vid card youd prolly have more probs than that

My thoughts as well - all other text is fine.