Laptop Problem -Red screen at startup!help!

[WhiteBears]

Hi there can anyone help me please. when i turned on my Laptop last night the screen Turned red whilst loading up, then normal screen when logging in. When it gets to the normal main screen the colours are fine for a split of a seconded.... then the colour of the screen changes to Red and Yellow ... more yellow than red. can hardly see anything.

When i managed to navigate the mouse to shut down.. the screen turns back to normal colour when it is shutting down. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my laptop? i have tried system restore but still no joy

[ChuckFickens]

sounds like the graphic drivers have possibly got corrupted

Goto the manufacturers website for your laptop and look in the support section for the video drivers for your model of laptop, download and install them again.

[WhiteBears]

Thanks ChuckFickens, this Dell laptop is two years old ive hardly used it!!

[ChuckFickens]

well the good news is that dells site is pretty good for driver support

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=gen />
The bad news is if it's not the driver it's probably a physical fault with the screen, possibly just a connection gone bad, but will require taking apart to fix.

but try the driver first

[ChuckFickens]

grrr, AB breaking links again.... use this link

http://tinyurl.com/e5jcx

[WhiteBears]

Thanks Chuck,
im confused what to do =( im using my PC atm cos i cant see a think on my laptop.

when i go to Safemode it all looks normal - why is that?

[rojash]

"when i go to Safemode it all looks normal - why is that?"
In safe mode, windows uses a generic low-performance video driver.

"im confused what to do"
Follow Chuck's link, choose "Select your model" and work you way through the menus until you are at the section specific to your computer. Then download and install the video drivers.

[WhiteBears]

rojash i cant see anything on my laptop, im using my pc at the moment, so i guess i have to download the driver on my pc and transfer to laptop?. not sure how its gonna work cos i cant see the screen very well with yellow and red showing.

however i do have some disks that came with the laptop one is:
DRIVERS AND UTILITIES - contents: device drivers & diagnostics and ultilities
will it help?

[WhiteBears]

ok heres an update:

i conected an external monitor to the laptop and the graphics are all fine on the ext. monitor. so you think the monitors knakared?

[ChuckFickens]

it's still possible that it is only a driver problem, but now you can use the laptop with a monitor you should be able to download and install the driver easy enough to find out.

[WhiteBears]

well ive not downloaded anything, what i did was i went into 'Graphics properties' then to colour corrections.

i noticed the Gamma, Brightness and Contrast we all on the right hand side, so i moved the slid to the left and now everything is back to normal =) yay!! i hope it was that, that caused the red and yellow screen!!!

thanks for ABers help =)