Potioncat's TV screen

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...>
wrote:
>
>  
> > Carol responds:
> > It sounds like a problem with your settings. Are you sure it's not the
> > monitor? Check the buttons on the front. If there's not one for
> > Contrast or something similar, or if there are just little icons whose
> > meaning you don't know, just push them to see what they do. 
> 
> snip> 
> > Carol, who is pretty sure that your problem with dark images can
be easily solved
> >
> 
> Potioncat:
> I supect the problem could be easily solved "if" we had the right
information, but isn't worth calling the Geek Squad. 
> 
> Adjusting the contrast or brightness on the monitor allows me make
it darker, but it's already as bright as it's going to get. I think we
tried to use a different monitor once and had the same problem, so it
looks like the bug is in the computer itself.
> 
> By today's standards, it's an old machine.
>
Carol responds:

Maybe you need a new video card? Or it could be the settings. How old
a computer and which operating system (Windows version) do you have
(assuming that it's not a Mac)?

Do you know how to get into Device Manager to see if the device
(monitor, video card, or whatever) is working properly?

Carol, who has Windows XP but still remembers, sort of, where to look
for stuff in Windows 98