HELP! Is My Monitor Getting Ready to Die, or is it something else?

[Gmr_Chick]

I'm a bit frantic right now, so apologies in advance. I was playing Battlefront II just now, when my PC up and turned off in the middle of a Co-Op game...I turned it back on and noticed the picture on my monitor was rather blinding. Really bright, damn near made my eyes hurt even. I then tried to check what picture setting I was on (I use the AORUS and Reader presets. I believe it was on AORUS this time) and I couldn't select the picture mode...I then tried a reset of all the settings, whereupon my picture now looks like this:

On my monitor at least, it looks sickly and VERY washed out no matter what aspects I try to change (brightness, contrast, etc.), and trying to type this on the screen is worse. Everything is all dull and dark and I'm seriously worried that my monitor is going to take a shit --- or worse, something else in my PC is going to kick the bucket. Help!

 

[Mussels]

yay, another person turned off corsair! (i have a nice hate thread going rn)

if the issues come back with the royals i can guide you with the settings to tweak to fix that

 

[Gmr_Chick]

yay, another person turned off corsair! (i have a nice hate thread going rn)

if the issues come back with the royals i can guide you with the settings to tweak to fix that

Haha, I know the thread!

Okie dokie Mussels! Thank you. I'll let you know if the issue comes back with the royals installed

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Well, the issues have yet to reappear. That said, I find myself uneasy whenever I play BF II now. I keep waiting for the damn PC to shut off again.

Also, I ordered a DeepCool GAMMAXX GT BK air cooler from Amazon. Should be here tomorrow

 

[Gmr_Chick]

UPDATE: My new CPU fan came yesterday (spent half the night mounting it) and while I have yet to still test it in gaming, I can say without a doubt that this thing was a breeze to mount compared to my CM MA610P. The genius in the design of the DeepCool fan lies in the mounting bolts -- they have these hollow bits inside (rather than being completely wide open) that hold the screws on the side brackets firmly in place, which means no having to fumble around with the screws trying to secure them to the four bolts. I love that about this cooler and it's something I wish would become standard.

What I DID have trouble with, however, was mounting the actual fan to the heatsink. It uses those evil paper-clip style brackets and...well, coupled with the fact I had a hard time seeing the diagram, I fought with two of the four included brackets for a good hour or so (even threw the poor fan on the floor in utter frustration once. Sorry fan ) before finally prevailing in mounting the fan to the heatsink.

Also, I found out one of my board's 4-pin RGB headers doesn't work, so yay? Lol. The cooler came with this cute little SATA-powered remote control that controlled the RGB like a boss, but I'm still not sure how somebody is supposed to use it when it's attached to SATA and thus buried inside their PC case... Anyway, the board's top RGB header doesn't work, but the one on the bottom of the board works.

Only gripe I have is not being able to shut off the RGB on the fan and keep the RGB on the top cover on.

 

[Mussels]

Also, I found out one of my board's 4-pin RGB headers doesn't work, so yay?

wait, please tell me you checked to be sure which ports are 12V and which are 5V? connecting devices to the wrong ones results in dead hardware

checked: you have two 12V RGB and two 5V ARGB
Up the top

down the bottom

dooooooont get them confused

 

[Gmr_Chick]

wait, please tell me you checked to be sure which ports are 12V and which are 5V? connecting devices to the wrong ones results in dead hardware

checked: you have two 12V RGB and two 5V ARGB
Up the top

down the bottom

dooooooont get them confused

Oh, no worries! I know about the dangers of plugging a 4 pin RGB cable into a 3 pin ARGB header. My top RGB header just doesn't work is all.