Pictures With the nikon d40x is it possible to take a black and white photo and have one object in color?

That flashing is the part of the image that is overexposed. See camera manual. Meter off a neutral part of the image.

The CCD is probably bad. You'll need to take it to a shop to replace it.

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Go to Shooting Menu---Optimize Image---set Black-and-White.
Else, For more detail visit this link.

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Here's the manual (free download)
http://safemanuals.com/user-guide-instructions-owner-manual/NIKON/D40X-_E

Black and white is a menu option......

Select > Shooting menu
Select > Optimise image
Select > Black and white

Page 68 of the manual has full details of other options.

Note that you can also change photos to black and white in good post processing packages (such as Adobe Photoshop), although invariably there is some quality loss over original capture.

If your LCD screen works normally as a viewfinder and lets you review photos then your shutter is likely stuck in the closed position. If the display is black in all modes your LCD display is bad. Unfortunately, there is no safe DIY fix for either problem. The camera will require professional repair.

if the camera is on a very reflective surface such as sasnd or snow, sometimes the light meter can be fooled and so you have to try to find a snow mode or manually increace the apeture or shutterspeed or lower the ISO you might also check to see if the camera is set on a very high ISO, or very low apeture or shutter speed, another possibility is that the exposure level is set very high or is locked so the camera will over expose, also if you focus the camera on a dark object, then the rest of the picture will be over exposed, so try to focus on a object that is about halfway between black and white.

you might have set the EV to -3 or -7.... in the view finder, this is confirmed by a black and white square icon that has +/- on it. .. go check it out :)

it is the highlight warning. When viewing the photos, simply click the up button to scroll to a different view.

Have you tried viewing the photos on a computer or printing them? There should also be parts of the menu/setting displays that would be white. The text on the image info should be in white.
If you are getting white, it would suggest your whitebalance isn't set correctly. If everything has a purple tint to it, check your LCD display settings, otherwise it may be the screen is failing.

Can you write your pics to a CD then take that for printing. I have had same probs with CF cards in my Nikon 8700, any editing of the card can, but not always, prevent the images being found.