Discoloration of my monitor's screen?!?

We had a severe thunderstorm pass overhead today! There was a lightning bolt
that struck very close to my house. The T.V. and the computer' screens were
both affected, the screens went to a multi-colored tye-dyed color. There was
no power outage and they are both on surge protectors; but I can't get my
computer screen to reset. I hope it (the lightning) didn't screw up my
screen. If there is anyone out there who knows how to fix the problem please
let me know? Thanks!

C
Thu Aug 21 17:16:18 PDT 2008

Jennifer wrote:
> We had a severe thunderstorm pass overhead today! There was a lightning bolt
> that struck very close to my house. The T.V. and the computer' screens were
> both affected, the screens went to a multi-colored tye-dyed color. There was
> no power outage and they are both on surge protectors; but I can't get my
> computer screen to reset. I hope it (the lightning) didn't screw up my
> screen. If there is anyone out there who knows how to fix the problem please
> let me know? Thanks!
>

See if your monitor (I assume CRT) has a degauss control.

Jennifer
Thu Aug 21 18:51:01 PDT 2008

Ummm....A What? Where would I find that control thing? I only know enough
computer stuff to get on the internet and I have installed more memory but
that's about as technical as I get. So, would I go into the control panel
file for that. I am sorry. If I can't figure it out, I guess it doesn't
bother me that much!

"C A Upsdell" <""cupsdell"@nospam@upsdel" wrote:

> Jennifer wrote:
> > We had a severe thunderstorm pass overhead today! There was a lightning bolt
> > that struck very close to my house. The T.V. and the computer' screens were
> > both affected, the screens went to a multi-colored tye-dyed color. There was
> > no power outage and they are both on surge protectors; but I can't get my
> > computer screen to reset. I hope it (the lightning) didn't screw up my
> > screen. If there is anyone out there who knows how to fix the problem please
> > let me know? Thanks!
> >
>
> See if your monitor (I assume CRT) has a degauss control.
>
>
>

Jennifer
Thu Aug 21 19:13:01 PDT 2008

Thank You "C A Upsdell" Disregaurd the babbling reply! I figured it out!
Thanks to you and my dell owners manual! It worked like a charm. Thanks
again!

"Jennifer" wrote:

> Ummm....A What? Where would I find that control thing? I only know enough
> computer stuff to get on the internet and I have installed more memory but
> that's about as technical as I get. So, would I go into the control panel
> file for that. I am sorry. If I can't figure it out, I guess it doesn't
> bother me that much!
>
> "C A Upsdell" <""cupsdell"@nospam@upsdel" wrote:
>
> > Jennifer wrote:
> > > We had a severe thunderstorm pass overhead today! There was a lightning bolt
> > > that struck very close to my house. The T.V. and the computer' screens were
> > > both affected, the screens went to a multi-colored tye-dyed color. There was
> > > no power outage and they are both on surge protectors; but I can't get my
> > > computer screen to reset. I hope it (the lightning) didn't screw up my
> > > screen. If there is anyone out there who knows how to fix the problem please
> > > let me know? Thanks!
> > >
> >
> > See if your monitor (I assume CRT) has a degauss control.
> >
> >
> >