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My monitor display is washed out in green. Here’s the history. I hope you can help.

I played BF2 at a friend’s place using my computer but his monitor. This was the second time I did this, and after the first time my monitor display was fine. After that second time, when I reconnected at home, my monitor recalibrated and then I got a green screen. I restored. It was okay. Then sometime later, I clicked on a display setting on my ATI menu and then the display went green. I check the monitor menu and that was showing true color.

I disconnected the monitor and reconnected. It was still green. I tried a restore, it was still green. I tried using a different (new) cable and that didn’t change anything. Eventually, I changed the settings through the color menu on the ATI interface. I eventually also updated my graphics card driver and the desktop/windows display. The problem maintained though in using Win Media Player and my DVD player (power DVD). Any video files I watched on media player were green-washed as well as the DVD playback. For media player, it was inconsistent though, as I could fiddle with skipping/clicking on certain files and if I got true color on one, I could watch that batch of files in true color. If I opened other files though, it was back to being green. When I used Quicktime, the display was okay. I installed the newest version of Media Player and the problem persisted. When I altered the Video Acceleration, the problem disappeared.

When I played BF2, it was okay, also. There was a hint of green, but otherwise it seemed to display relatively okay.

I installed City of Heroes and when I started to play it, the monitor settings recalibrated and the screen went green. When I would Alt-Tab to the desktop, the explorer bar would show and I could see the City of Heroes display in the background in true color. When I would click back to it, it would turn green.

I installed the most recent ATI driver and reverted the Video Acceleration to it’s original setting, and the problem seemed to disappear in Media Player. I also installed the most recent DirectX, DivX (and since removed it), ffdshow codec pack, the driver for the monitor, but the problem persisted in game play and dvd playback.

Then, when I would return to the desktop, it would remain green. When I would go to the ATI menu and JUST click on the color tab, the display would go back to normal. Eventually, whenever I would restart, the display would be green-washed until I did the ATI Menu color tab thing. I reinstalled the ati driver again this morning and restarted the computer and it wasn’t green. The media player didn’t have the green issues either. On the City of Heroes interface, I can see the red and blue clearly, but everything else is solidly green-washed.

I’ve tried a different monitor on the computer briefly – just to the desktop display and it seemed to be okay, but I didn’t try to run a game. I have yet tried to use the monitor with a different computer and I will do that when I get home.

I have an LCD monitor, VGA connection only
I run XP
My graphics card is a 9200se

HELP?! Thanks!

Ahhh .... don't you just love ATI ? I do .... not !

Sounds like the graphics card is the problem, because by adjusting its setting it has an effect on the problem. With the newest drivers the problem should technically disappear, but not always. On my mom's laptop (unfortunately has ATI card) the screen would just go black sometimes, or it would dim to nearly 100 % with no way to get it back without a restart. By installing new ATI drivers the problem happened less often, but it still happened. If you keep all the drivers updated it should get better ... if it really bothers you try contacting ATI and beat an answer out of the tech support ... the answer will be sorry our ATI cards are just crap. Or you could get a new graphics card ... any except SiS or really cheap ones (I would reccomend nVIDIA). Or if you bought the card recently you can possibly take it back to the store and have em check it for faulty manufacturing (a very likely possibility considering the "quality" of ATI cards in general)

You can google "ATI green screen" no quotes and see that a lot of the ATI cards have problems similar to this ... and it's usually due to faulty manufacturing ... or just a crappy card in general. It sounds like you updated everything you needed to, with all new drivers for everything the only possible cause is the ATI card, no monitor does this on its own

did you play with electromagnets infront of your screen?