Display is heavily tinted red.

hanluc · 30 Jan 2016 at 12:24

Can anyone help me this this?
Hardware: p8z77v-pro MB& i7-3770K CPU

My display looks like this:

It's the same on two different monitors, and the DVI lead works fine on another PC. This is through the iGPU on the 3770k, I tried connecting both a Nvidia & AMD GC, when I do this the red tint goes but as soon as I install the drivers and reboot, it won't boot so I'm thinking it's the MB rather than the iGPU but wondered if anyone else has had a similar problem before?

5960xNvidiaGamer · 30 Jan 2016 at 12:29

Must have faulty onboard graphics then, but yeah the motherboard sounds like it needs returning. If under warranty RMA it.

Uaon · 30 Jan 2016 at 12:45

Have you tried connecting via hdmi to rule out the actual dvi lead?

Midlife Crisis · 30 Jan 2016 at 13:01

As above try another lead

hanluc · 30 Jan 2016 at 13:01

Uaon said:
Have you tried connecting via hdmi to rule out the actual dvi lead?

My Monitor doesn't have an HDMI input, but I have got a DVI to HDMI lead and have just tried it, it works fine so thanks for that. However I don't think it's the lead as the same lead works fine from another PC.

EDIT: just tried a different DVI to DVI lead and it's still the same.

Uaon · 30 Jan 2016 at 13:23

You can always try disabling the igp and running from your gpu? I seen this earlier last year on a HP laptop and it turned out that the solder point on the hdmi jack on it had chipped off and so it was not making good contact with the traces on the pcb.

I would try wiping all display drivers using this and then you could try cleanly installing inteld hd drivers.

To state the obvious here, have you tried resetting bios to optimized defaults?

StudentDavid · 30 Jan 2016 at 13:30

Resetting the bios is unlikely to change anything, if you have tried another cable and its still doing it and tried another monitor and its still doing it, its obviously a fault on the board.

hanluc · 30 Jan 2016 at 13:47

I updated the bios to the latest, and it's not related to the OS, the red tint is there when looking at the bios screen. The iGPU setting is on auto and it does detect graphic cards but as I've said it won't boot when the drivers are installed. At least now I'm reassured that's its not the CPU, I'll have a play to see if I can get a GC to work. Thanks for all the replies.

StudentDavid · 30 Jan 2016 at 13:56

Is it under warranty? if so just RMA it

hanluc · 30 Jan 2016 at 15:28

StudentDavid said:
Is it under warranty? if so just RMA it

It had a 3 year warranty and I purchased it in 2012

Ethermaster · 31 Jan 2016 at 11:03

I wonder if its anything do with a driver .... or the card its self, just need to ask if you have the cable plugged into the GPU or the motherboard as that would explain why it using the iGPU and not detecting the GPU...

Try the following if the cable is in the GPU and can get the drivers installed.

1. Open CCC
2. Select Desktops and Displays from the Graphics dropdown menu.
3. Right Click your problematic display from the "please select a display" selection and select Configure
4. Tab over to the end tab and change the Pixel Format. Try going from YCbCr to RGB, thats what worked for me.
5. The Scaling options tab allows you to resize the screen to fit the display.

BluD · 31 Jan 2016 at 12:33

WHen you say it doesnt boot with your amd or nvidia card installed do you mean it just fails to post or it still load up normally then crashes when it loads the drivers, or does it actually get into windows but you no video signal coming from them so you just have a black screen?