The Pink Screen of Death?
July 24, 2010 10:58 AM   Subscribe

OK, I've almost given up. I try to connect my HP G60 laptop (Windows 7) to my Olevia (I know) HDTV and the TV screen wants to be magenta (pink!). Not totally pink, just the colored bits. The white parts stay white. I'm using a 6-foot HDMI cable. I have had a proper picture in the past, but I cannot for the life of me figure out a stable combination of settings. Anybody else experience that? Any solution to the pinkness?
posted by jaronson to Technology (6 answers total)
 
Your laptop is sending RGB, but your TV is thinking that it is receiving YPbPr.

...this is quite unusual.

It's possible your TV might have an HDMI input format option - but I doubt it. These things are supposed to be automatic.

It sounds to me like you might have a dodgy HDMI cable. Have you tried a different one?
posted by Mwongozi at 11:08 AM on July 24, 2010


Does your tv have an auto-adjust button or menu option? Have you tried that?
posted by nikkorizz at 11:10 AM on July 24, 2010


Response by poster: Yes, I have tried two different cables. And, I forgot to mention that I tried it on another HDTV and got the same results. Thanks, first responders.
posted by jaronson at 11:58 AM on July 24, 2010


Best answer: Can you clarify what you mean by magenta, is everything just strongly tinted towards pink or is it more of a color swap? What color do solid red, green and blue end up?

I'm guessing you may have knocked a color-correction option somewhere, if you go into change the screen resolution then advanced settings is there an option to tweak the colour settings provided by your video card driver? Is anything enabled under Control Panel -> Color Management?
posted by samj at 1:01 PM on July 24, 2010


Response by poster: I guess you could call it a color swap. Everything that would be a color is magenta/pink. Everything that is white stays white.

There is a Control Panel>Appearance and Personalization>Display>Screen Resolution>Advanced Settings> Color Management>Stuff...

I had not known about that before...Hmmm. I'll have to play around with that. Stay tuned...
posted by jaronson at 2:50 PM on July 24, 2010


Response by poster: Thanks to samj, I was able to locate the "Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile" and adjust the color options for digital TV. I may get rid of the cable TV after all.
posted by jaronson at 7:29 PM on July 24, 2010


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