I just got a Siemens Nixdorf MCM 1705 (NTD) screen up and working. I don't know if I'm having a problem or not. The colors are very greenish with very little blue. I've used the adjustments on the front of the screen and I'm not able to get it much better.
I think that it should be clearer, but I've seen screens/TVs with dark colors like this. What do you guys thinks. BTW I just got a new video cable for it, could this cable be bad?
It could be the cable, swap monitors and see if the cable works with another monitor. Sounds like the internal adjustments for color are out of whack. The front panel adjustments and just for "fine-tune-tweaking", the main adjustments are inside, and are usually done at the factory. I had a monitor with a similar problem once. All the blue was gone, it turned out to be the cracked solder connection where the crt tube socket's blue gun plugged into the back of the crt. Just a quick touch with the solder gun fixed it. You might be able to find the right control inside with a little experimentation, but you COULD make it alot WORSE :-) Best to get a manual or a technician. If you do experiment, look for some tiny potentiometers labelled B,G,R, they should all be near one another in the video output section. Carefully note what positions they are in, then slightly turn them with a tiny screwdriver. If you can't get a good "white balance", then one of the crt color gun drivers has gone bad. They usually look like big rectagular transistors, with a metal heat sink tab, with a screwhole in it. The crt tube could have gone bad too. P.S. Don't electrocute yourself (20,000 volts), unless you unsubscribe first :-) -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation