/vr/ - Retro Games

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While moving it from my first floor to my third, a discoloration appeared on the left side of the screen. It only effects reds, and turns any reds that happen to be in that area from their normal color to what could best be described as magenta. Adjusting purity is able to move the area it affects (still on the left side) around and in the most extreme of conditions almost removes it. This however comes with all types of wonderful discolorations in the corners. Placing a old boom box speaker near the area is able to remove it, so I don't believe it's a defect with the tube itself. Either some electronic part has/is going bad somewhere inside and is producing a magnetic field, or something else I have heard is the perhaps the purity ring has been knocked out of alignment and is causing it. Again, I am unsure about how to test such things, and without having some direction given to me by someone more knowledgeable or a service manual to read up on it on, I have been apprehensive about fiddling around inside. I've also read that there's a switch you can hit inside to bring up a service menu, but I'm not sure as to where it is or if it is more indepth than the ~15 or so option menu that I have access to currently.
Getting a dedicated degaussing coil is another thing that I have considered doing, but the cheapest one I've seen is a $40 one from Fry's, which is out of my price range as I stated above.

The spot also seems to fade as the set is left on, but never entirely.

Well, the adapter came.
I've got to go under the assumption that the problem is indeed that the monitor doesn't like my laptop; Connecting it up and moving the cable causes slight color changes in the screen, which I can only assume is from it grounding and checking for a signal. Windows, Puppy, and Groovy(arch) all give the same results, so I know it's not an OS problem either. Maybe when I get around to cleaning my desktop, I'll take it up and see how my 6950 plays with it.
Still haven't tried something with S-Video on it. Possibly later today.


Also got a set of pictures showing the discoloration on it disappearing with the application of an old boom box speaker; I can only hope that this means that getting a hole of a degaussing coil will solve this issue.