Yellow tinted overlay on screen

Ray Parrish crp at cmc.net
Mon Jun 29 21:34:34 UTC 2009


Ray Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This morning when I booted up I was greeted with a yellow tinted overlay 
> that covers all of my screen except for the top and bottom 1/4 inch.
>
> There is nothing wrong with the monitor or video card, as this overlay 
> is not present when booting into Windows XP.
>
> Additionally, I have made no changes whatsoever in any configuration 
> settings.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could cause this malady? I have no idea 
> where to look to find the cause.
>
> Thanks for any help you can be.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish
>   
Never mind... I Googled it, and wound up changing the screen refresh 
rate from 50 hz to 51 hz as an experiment after reading someone say they 
changed their video resolution to get rid of the problem, and now the 
annoying yellow overlay is gone.

Later, Ray Parrish

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