I have a HP dv9010us Pavilion Laptop. The laptop's display works great. I've always used an external LCD monitor- and about a month ago, the secondary monitor suddenly had a blue tint to the screen. The laptop's display worked great. Eventually the 2nd LCD screen wouldn't even display a picture. Assuming it burned out- I just got home with a brand new Samsung 22" LCD monitor- plugged it in, same exact problem- blue tinted screen. Initially I thought it might be a bent pin in the cable or receptacle- but I tried brand new cables with no results. My laptop also has a 'docking stand' in which has an external monitor jack in that as well. I tried the docking stand's monitor output, as well as the one directly on the laptop- both have the same exact results- blueish tint to the screen. This leads me to believe it's NOT the monitors or the cables.

Do you have ANY ideas as to what this could be, and how to fix it? My drivers are completely up to date as well. Please help...

Check under color(in the monitor settings -> Color -> Color Tone). There will be a bluish tint with the color tone setting called "Cool" on Samsung screens.

Also look for a color temperature option(in the video card options). 6400k is normal, anything higher may look blueish.

Hmmm- nope. It's set to 'Normal' in the monitor menu for color tone (not cool). Also- I don't believe it's the monitor, as it's brand new, and my old one was doing the same exact thing before I replaced it. I think it has to do with the laptop or graphics card maybe? What I don't get is- the laptop's primary display works perfectly- so if it was the graphics card, wouldn't BOTH displays be messed up? Please help - Im getting desperate here...

Ok, so this is not just a slight blue, its an outright super blue right?

The only thing that causes that is if a pin on the plug(either on the laptop of cable, my bet is laptop). I am not sure how you would fix this.

Its possible that the laptops own d-sub port is starting to unsolder from the board(if it was DVI the colors should not change). That sucks and would cause this to happen.

Sorry, thats about the only thing i can think of that causes that to happen(had it on a old desktop, messing with the plug fixed it).

Right- but here's the problem- I have 2 ports. One on the laptop itself, one on the docking station. I've tried both ports- same problem. So I don't think it's the ports themselves anymore. Oh- forgot to mention, running XP, nVidio GEeForce 6500 w/ the latest drivers. I don't think it's software related- as it started to go out last month, then corrected itself, then went out again, and never corrected after that- just stayed blue. Oh, and yes, it's super blue- no reds at all- so it must be a red pin or something that's out? Anyways- what do I do here?

I used to work for best buy and when our vga splitters went bad alot of the tims they would display problems like your having. If changing the cable doesn't fix the problem and making sure the cables are tight, i would say you have a bad vga port. sorry bud but nothing i think you can do about that.

Yeah, that seems to be the most logical- but BOTH PORTS out at the same time with the same exact problem? That I find hard to believe...

If a trace on the mobo cracked, then all the VGA connections could be hosed.

yeah- just tried BOTH ports again- moved it all around, in, out, tight, loose- same results. It makes me wonder if there's something inside the laptop itself?

I DO have s-video connections, and the new monitor has Digital input- is there an adapter I can get in the mean time? Will my resolution/quality suffer going this route? I really need this fixed asap...
Thanks for all the help!

jtt- so is there a way to find that out for SURE? I am calling HP tech support tomorrow (I highly doubt they'll give me any solutions)...

The docking port is not a second port, just like a internal extension from that port(that does make it worse as the problem would be even deeper in the notebook, i assume its a similar dock to the R3000 one). I do not think you can plug 3 screens into that system (Onboard and then one VGA and one Dock.)

If you think it is software then i suggest you you download a live linux CD(linux that runs off a cd without installing anything on the computer) and see if the colors are still wrong when it loads. Or at least run windows in safe mode since that runs without the video drivers(F8 like crazy just before the windows loading screen).

Nuke
Thanks for the reply. Just so I'm clear here- I run the external monitor 24/7 on the docking station port. When the laptop is docked- the geniouses at HP mape the docking connector plug too close to the external monitor plug on the laptop itself- so you physically can't have both plugged in at the same time. They force you to use the docking station's port IF the laptop is docked. Otherwise, if it's not docked, you can use the laptop's direct port. Either way- neither ports work- they both look the exact same- strong blue...

ok- just rebooted into safe mode. It's not software- when the 'Dos' screen was running through the file list at loading- the white lettering had a blue tint to it on my 2nd monitor. The laptop screen was perfect black and white. This totally sucks- can anyone help?
Thanks

The only one who can help now is HP. your issues is before you even get any software loads so its hardware.

Dang. ok- well, I assume that the graphics card is integrated. So, does that mean they would have to fix/repair/replace the motherboard completely? If it's NOT covered by warranty- is that an expensive thing to do (I'm on a tight budget!). I realize most people would just go buy a new laptop- but my finances don't dictate that option right now. What are my solutions here?

You only other option to keep the a second screen would be a usb video card. But its not that cheep. They have become much better then they used to be.

check the reviews. some of them are able to play video and are fairly fast, while others just suck.

I will try to pull up a review for you

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