Friend is having an issue with a purple desktop...

skidude

skidude

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My friend is having an issue with his PC. When windows starts up, the welcome screen and his desktop is all purple. The weird thing about this is he took a screen of his desktop and sent it to me, and it looked fine, no purple anywhere. Ive told him to update his drivers, re-insert his graphics card, and try a different monitor all of which has failed. When he goes into games to play them, the purple color disappears... Im stumped here, so any advice would be nice...
 
skidude said:
My friend is having an issue with his PC. When windows starts up, the welcome screen and his desktop is all purple. The weird thing about this is he took a screen of his desktop and sent it to me, and it looked fine, no purple anywhere. Ive told him to update his drivers, re-insert his graphics card, and try a different monitor all of which has failed. When he goes into games to play them, the purple color disappears... Im stumped here, so any advice would be nice...
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The last time I got a multicolored screen my monitor was dying.
 
What card does he have? Is it possible that speed settings have been changed for 2D?
 
Go into the apperance options and have a look around, see if any of the backgrounds / taskbar or active window colours have been mucked around with:)
 
skidude said:
He has an Asus X1900XT. Not sure if he was fooling with somethin but i'll find out if its in 2D.
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Well the reason I ask is because I know on Nvidia cards you can set 2D and 3D clock speeds separately. When I first heard the issue it seemed like maybe his card was having an issue due to overclocking (heating etc.). but you say it runs games fine so it cannot be overheating unless it's just overclocked on 2D settings. Meaning it's actually running at higher speeds and running hotter showing the desktop then it is running a game.
 
Blue said:
Well the reason I ask is because I know on Nvidia cards you can set 2D and 3D clock speeds separately. When I first heard the issue it seemed like maybe his card was having an issue due to overclocking (heating etc.). but you say it runs games fine so it cannot be overheating unless it's just overclocked on 2D settings. Meaning it's actually running at higher speeds and running hotter showing the desktop then it is running a game.
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artifact's in window's :)


the first post makes me wonder tough.. if his screen is purple... how could he send a picture to you? or are just the colours weird?
if so.. he might want to look into the drives, because in my (nvidia) drives, i can change the colours (Blue,Red,Yellow), and maybe that is messed up.

he could also try jsut to remove the dirvers and boot without display drives installed ( so its using the window's buildin drivers) just to see if the colours are normal then.
 
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