Pink iMac screen
Anyone know what's causing this? So far the Apple support discussion boards have been a big goose egg.
I've got a 17-inch iMac G4, 1GHz model, 256MB RAM. Basically unaltered from the factory. The screen has taken a pinkish hue -- as if it's operating in grayscale, except in pink. Sometimes if you set it to sleep then wake it up, the screen will recast in correct colors. Other times it won't. Sometimes restarting fixes it. Sometimes it doesn't.
I've jiggled the screen and moved the arm to no avail -- I don't think it's a pinched wire or loose video cable of any kind. The iMac is running up-to-date system software and shows no problems with the diagnostic software I have, including Apple's own Hardware Check software.
Comments
MacFixIt has been covering this issue a bit; it started with reports about pink tinting on the new LCD displays, but other readers wrote in with similar reports about older Macs:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040908074539433
Posted by: Dan Frakes | September 22, 2004 03:28 PM
Heck, the screen on my iMac DV(1999 edition) got darker and darker for months, then died outright last week. On the other hand, the beige 17" monitor I plugged into it is comparatively gorgeous and perfect for gaming, aside from being off on the right side.
Posted by: Alphax | September 22, 2004 06:29 PM
It's from being a commie leftist pinko. :-P
(Well, my mom still thinks I'm funny.)
Posted by: Derik | September 22, 2004 07:35 PM
How do you Fix this. Pink screen always on imac17"is it the LCD?
george
Posted by: George Villanueva | October 30, 2004 06:18 PM