Colour Calibration (Annoying!)

Smigz0r

Smigz0r

Smigz0r

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Hello there. I made an overclockers account specifically for this problem as I'm sure you guys can help me out :-)

Well I recently upgraded my GPU to an ATi Radeon 4850 HD, all is working fine except for this strange colour distortion.
Some things seem to be tinted green, and when I try to remedy the problem via the ATi software itself or Windows own software, I turn the green slider down and everything becomes red. I turn the red slider down and it all goes blue. Blue goes down, back to green, and so on!

I have tried every combination possible and I just cannot get it to sit perfect.
Here are a few pictures I took of World of Warcraft and one of Steam, to show the colour distortion.

http://i.imgur.com/ROOIQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DBSiG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/08ngR.jpg

These were all taken while the computer's colour setting were on what it deems to be "default"

Stressed and annoyed I have turned to you guys, so any help is extremely appreciated, thank you :-)

(Sidenote: here is my current system spec, if you need any other details just ask and I will kindly oblige)

Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.110622-1506)
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 250 Processor (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8192MB RAM
Card name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Current Mode: 1366 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
 
Well, the card IS second hand, but I bought it from a friend who said he had never seen anything like that when using it, so I just don't understand what could be wrong! :<
 
Yeah I have my old one knocking about, just pains me to put it back in as it's terrible and this one is awesome. I don't honestly think it's the GPU as it worked okay for a while after it was installed then all of a sudden this happened. I can kind of eradicate the green with ATi Colour settings, but at the cost of everything else looking red haha. Sigh :(
 
Oh dear. Right this is the next thing to try then. Uninstall ALL drivers. Then go to "device manager" (right click computer, manage) and find it there and uninstall it (the GPU).

Then restart, and reinstall drivers. Worth a try.

(do you have onboard graphics btw?)
 
I assume so as before I had installed the card's driver's I was able to work away, but okay then, i'll give it a go. (If you don't hear back from me, assume it backfired and i didn't have onboard graphics, heh)
 
try running a short blast of furmark just to stress the gpu and watch for visual anomalies taking place, also are you monitoring temps?
 
Uninstalled drivers, uninstalled GPU, took GPU out, sprayed some canned air over it, put it back in, made sure everything was plugged in correctly. Exact same result. Eurgh.
 
you try running a stress test on the gpu yet, though if it is faulty or on it's last legs that may cause it to fall over completely.
 
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