Need helps with computer display settings problem

[Tiberius]

Running Windows 7. I turn on my machine and the display is green. There's a very low quality image, well enough to read and actually use the computer, but it's very poor. It looks like something from the 1980s. I've tried restarting a few times, I've tried switching to an external display and back and tried chainging my resolution, all to no avail.

Any siggestions?

 

[Tiberius]

Okay, funnily enough the problem has fixed itself. No idea what happened, I was poking around and the screen just blinked back to normal. I wasn't doing anything at the time.

Anyone have any idea what might have happened? Just the display drivers messing up, or could it be something more?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Sounds to me like your cable was not in all the way, am i right in assuming it was not HDMI, but more VGA, assuming your on a desktop and not a laptop, and if your on a laptop, then ignore everything i just said.

 

[MacLeod]

Could still indicate a faulty connection even on a laptop.

 

[sojourner]

Yep, my first impulse was "loose vga cable". My second thought is failing video card.

 

[Tiberius]

Sounds to me like your cable was not in all the way, am i right in assuming it was not HDMI, but more VGA, assuming your on a desktop and not a laptop, and if your on a laptop, then ignore everything i just said.

Could still indicate a faulty connection even on a laptop.

Yep, my first impulse was "loose vga cable". My second thought is failing video card.

Yeah, I'm on a laptop.

I'm doing a free online course, and they post video lectures. I've noticed that the videos don't work, but I;ve found a workaround. I skip the little slider to a few minutes in, then bring it back to the start and it works.

Is this something consistant with a failing video card?

 

[sojourner]

Define "doesn't work" in the case of the video lectures.

 

[Tiberius]

Define "doesn't work" in the case of the video lectures.

Oh, sorry.

I can hear the sound, but there's no image. Depending on the videos I watch, the little area where the video is supposed to pop up is either black or green.