I have a Samsung 204B LCD monitor that is attached to an HP Pentium 4 computer running XP with a video card that has an Intel 82915G/910 chipset. It has started producing a yellow tint to everything when run in auto mode. I had to switch to manual mode and reduce the red and green values to near zero to get somewhat close to a normal white color on the screen. It has also stopped generating background colors on web pages. On my Yahoo Webmail there are no more background colors (yellow, orange, black, etc)either in IE7 or FireFox, but all of the other pictures, text, and ads show normal coloration. I have tried using a different video cable, and a different computer, but get the same result. The screen also takes a very long time to come out of hibernation and flicker a lot when doing so. This is in Analog mode. The little analog check square in the upper left hand portion of the screen also sometimes stays on the screen (It normally disappears after couple seconds). P.S. I forgot to mention that when I bring up the on screen menu on the monitor that colors all appear and are correct. The white is bright white ( not yellowish), etc.

If you have tried a different computer and a different cable, it appears that you need a new monitor. Repairing that one might be more costly than a new one.

The yellow tint may indicate you have the intial symptoms of (a) failing backlight(s) (some LCD displays have more than one). If the problem with it coming out of hibernation is it takes a long time for the screen to reach full brightness, it probably does that while intially booting too, and that also indicates the backlight(s) is(are) failing. That has nothing to do with any drivers or software settings. A backlight is a.k.a. a CCFL - a Cold Cathode Flouresent Lamp - it eventually deteriorates and burns out like other flouresent lamps do. If your monitor is no longer under warranty...... For some info about replacing a backlight, and what some typical symptoms are, see response 5 in this: http://www.computing.net/hardware/w... People tend to think an LCD display will produce a good display for a longer time than a CRT display will, but that ain't necessarily so.

The backlight sounds like what is causing the flickering and the yellow tint . Based on that thread, it sounds like it is not the inverter because the blue ("on") light also flickers when the screen flickers (or at least I believe it does based on what I remember from this morning). I will have to wait for hibernation and for it to cool down to make absolutely sure. Is this also the cause of the missing background colors on the web sites? The windows screens, .bmps, .jpgs, and .tiff files all have normal color. I am not sure about the differences between how the colors are displayed in the web backgrounds and these other pictures.

"Is this also the cause of the missing background colors on the web sites? " The reason you often see a tint of a certain color while the backlight is failing is because the light that failing backlight is producing is no longer pure white light and has more of one or of some colors it it than it has of others (you may have noticed regular flouresent tubes often have a pinkish hue to their light, and sometimes flicker or don't come on right away when first switched on, not long before they fail). The liquid crystal pixels on the screen merely let through that white or whatever light, or modify it to another color, or block it, but that only works correctly when the light source is producing the right output. If the "color balance" or whatever it's called of the light the backlight is producing is out of whack, all sorts of display situations will be out of whack, and it may be more noticable with fainter background colors. It's like the situation you get with a color inkjet printer when one or more of the colors is not printing all possible lines because some jets are clogged. Sometimes in the initial stages of the backlight failing you can deliberately emphasize one color or colors more than another rather that having that at default settings, in display software settings or in the OSD settings on the monitor, and get the colors overall to look like they should on the display, but eventually that can't be tweaked enough. When you monitor (or TV) is new or fairly new, Auto adjust settings usually work fine, but as the backlight and the circuits in the monitor age, the Auto settings often get out of whack and you need to adjust things other ways. ..... How old is this monitor / how much has it been used? Samsung makes better LCD montors than some other brands do. Some el-cheapo monitors warranty the backlight for only one year, everything else for longer. Samsung supplies specific drivers for their LCD monitors, and their TVs with a monitor capabilty (e.g. that have a VGA input port) - some cheaper LCD monitors don't have those (e.g. Acer). I have a friend who has a Samsung LCD monitor about 4 1/2 years old, and a Samsung LCD combo TV/monitor about 3 years old. Up until a few months ago both were on 24/7 most of the time - she's disabled and can't turn them off herself - since then a blank (black) screen saver kicks in after a time of inactivity. Both displays are still fine (although I did have to have the board inside the TV replaced on warranty a few months back, at a local place - the TV channels had become B&W only - that cost her/me nothing, except a little extra waiting for the board to arrive, and time on my part). I set both to the minimum brightness she can tolerate and still see everything clearly - sometimes she turns that up a notch for certain games or DVD movies. They both look better at other than the "optimal" or "native" resolution than cheaper monitors do (e.g. her friend has an Acer that applies to).