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    AOC 2216Sa monitor displaying weird colors.

    I found this monitor at the dump right when i was in the need of one.
    The monitor is not smashed and works fine.
    The lack of "LED" stickers on it tells me that it's got CFL in it.
    One thing about it is that it's displaying colors wrong.
    It's like there's these very rough transitions between various shades of colors, almost as if there's only about 32 colors.
    Also every second vertical line of pixels is darker where the image is also dark.
    The only example to describe this i can think of would be maybe a compressed image.
    Now that i think of it i also have a TV that also displays colors in the exact same way and that TV also happens to have CFLs in it.
    I remember something similar to this happening on my SONY laptop, it had a failing CFL tube in it and would occasionally display the image wrong, i bodged a LED backlight from another screen in it and it's been working fine ever since, could this be related?
    One bad thing about this screen is that it's a pain to take apart, the plastic from the back comes off easily but the PCB is behind a sheet metal frame that is attached to the LCD assembly, this prevents me from easily checking the caps.
    Another thing is that the aforementioned TV does the same thing but all the caps in that one are good.
    My guess is that the CFLs are old and the HV drivers are working overtime and in turn end up causing EMI, which then messes with the image processing.
    I can kind of sort of try to take a picture of the screen to show what it looks like.

    Any ideas?
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    Last edited by PopcornMobo; 10-07-2018, 04:49 PM.

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    Re: AOC 2216Sa monitor displaying weird colors.

    phone camera might get a good pic .

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      Re: AOC 2216Sa monitor displaying weird colors.

      Originally posted by petehall347 View Post
      phone camera might get a good pic .
      I updated the original post.
      It's hard to get a decent picture of a screen without aliasing, but the one i got looks good enough.
      The red in the windows logo shows the dark vertical lines well and the blue shows the bad transitions between shades of colors.
      It's like the screen is trying to display the image in a compressed/low-bit mode.
      Last edited by PopcornMobo; 10-07-2018, 04:56 PM.

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