The screen on my HP w2408 monitor has turned blue. I can see my desktop icons fine, but the entire screen is blue. How do I get the color back?

Some electrolytic capacitor need to be replaced - need to open up to access the power supply board. Bad Capacitors are usually swollen or burst.

try powering off your monitor and disconnect the cable at both ends. switch the ends if that doesn't work try another cable.then turn the monitor back on see if the osd menu went away.

you going to need a good grafics card pci express interface whid 512 mb or ram and the apropriate drivers for it and afther you plug in the 2 monitors your pc will indentifie dual monitors and you can expan the desktop

Disconnect monitor cable from back of the computer and see if u have a error msg on the screen > if u find a error msg like " NO VIDEO SIGNAL"> then ur monitor is fine or else ur monitor is BAD

Well the monitor not being support is not the issue. the issue is the video card cannot produce a signal that is supported for the monitor. Its doing this to let you know also to lower your resolution because the monitor will pop if the resolutions is to high. the monitor itself does not matter if you had Vista as lond as the monitor agree with the signal your cool if it don't it will do this. Try lowing the res using another monitor then put the orginal back on and you should be good.

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Try substituting a different monitor to see if that helps. Sounds like your current monitor has problems. If that doesn't help, your video card may have problems. Let me know what you find.
Ron

have no friken idea

It is one coulour missing and it can b mostly due to CRT socket loose or some dry solder in CRT {RGB) path..

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i havent seen this question asked, and believe me i have searched. i have compaq presario, windows xp media edition 2005, 64 amd processor, model # SR2017CL, with HP 1703 17" monitor. Prob-put computer in hibernate mode other evening, without turning it off. when i woke up, screen had diagonal lines going across it. i rebooted, well manually restarted, since comp would not respond.
Message comes up white with black writing, essentially, prob with active desktop, restore or turn off. i tried to turn off and screen went back to diag. lines. looks like the horizontal hold of a tv screen is asque. tried adjusting monitor to no avail.
tried a few more times, was fine for a few mins then went to same thing. now when i turn monitor on it blinks red, blue, and so on.
just whole screen that color. so i am at the point where i dont
know if its the comp or the monitor. (i am quite a newby)
ty for any help you can give
ellie

from what your saying, it may be that your monitor may be going bad and may need to be replaced.

I suggest calling dell and try to get your monitor fixed,
or you may buy a seperate monitor, just make sure it has a VGA port so that you may use the monitor.