No Color

Status
Not open for further replies.
ptonsparky said:
What did I manage to do to my Dell laptop that it suddenly lost color?

No color to my monitor either.

Somewhere mixed in that question and statement is a Golly Gee Whiz and Shucky Darn.
Click to expand...

Check your display settings. You may find a set of options that includes "thousands of colors", "millions of colors", and maybe "grayscale".
If that does not explain it, there might be a hardware problem with your graphics card (or graphics chipset if integrated.)

P.S. For a not obvious and hard to find setting possibility see https://social.technet.microsoft.co...appeared-in-windows10?forum=win10itprogeneral

Look at the blue Answer icon about 6 posts down.

Google is your friend: "lost color in Windows 10"​
 
Last edited:
Could also be a failing graphics processor chip... If it’s integrated into the CPU chipset, as it is in most laptops now, it’s not going to be a cheap fix. It means a new motherboard.
 
Ok, I called my IT felt and pretended it was my Dell laptop. Here’s what they said, and apparently it’s s known bug with Dells and NVIDIA graphics chips that they use exclusively. The theory is it’s a glitch that happens when Windoze does an update in the background. It resets the graphics chip to a default state. Here’s the fix, although it’s for my OS so you may have to adapt.

Go to Control Panel
Click on "Hardware and Sound"
Scroll all the way to the bottom and click on "NVIDIA Control Panel"
This will open a new window where you can set the color on your screen back to normal.
 
LarryFine said:
Right-clicked on your desktop while not looking?

Alternative: Do you cave a cat? :p
Click to expand...
There is a software product available that senses the timing and pattern of key-presses corresponding to a cat walking on the keys and temporarily disables the keyboard. It is called, naturally enough "Paws Control."
 
Well is the display truly black and white or is it a single color, red, green, blue or are one of those primary colors missing?

The display panel is RGB by design so the only failure mode would kill one or two primary colors. The display can't go black and white by it's self because B&W requires all three primary colors.

If true B&W, that check your graphics settings as suggested before.
 
Andy Delle said:
Well is the display truly black and white or is it a single color, red, green, blue or are one of those primary colors missing?

The display panel is RGB by design so the only failure mode would kill one or two primary colors. The display can't go black and white by it's self because B&W requires all three primary colors.

If true B&W, that check your graphics settings as suggested before.
Click to expand...

Color was being filtered so it left me with grey and white or some semblance of such. I canceled filtering and bang, I had color. Was it truly better color afterwards? IDK, it appeared to be.
 
ptonsparky said:
Color was being filtered so it left me with grey and white or some semblance of such. I canceled filtering and bang, I had color. Was it truly better color afterwards? IDK, it appeared to be.
Click to expand...
You might have changed the color resolution in the process. "Better", for an LCD display, would probably involve a change in the color saturation setting, which, when changeable, is often associated with a particular monitor or monitor type.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top