Think Fish Keepers Daily News

The sterlets at the local MA might have to be adopted as my pond fish by proxy. 

I know it's not really fish news, but I am now reading posts without getting a headache - or to be precise eye ache.

The screen on my laptop has been playing up for a few weeks - either horizontal green stripes or text elongated to 10 times it's proper height. And the mouse pointer doesn't work when these happen. I wiggle the screen backwards and forwards a few times and if that doesn't work, tap the screen on the top edge. I can usually persuade it to work but it can take 5 minutes. I think this is because I dropped a rather heavy rechargeable cordless mouse on it 

So last week I bit the bullet and bought a new laptop which arrived on Thursday afternoon. The new one is an SSD and so much faster. But.....

The screen has a blue-purple tint, it makes my eyes ache and I can't adjust the colour to the right setting. I've tried the colour adjustment thing in the Control Panel - moving the blue slider almost to the opposite end works a bit but not much. I've tried adjusting things in the Intel Graphics Card thingy which also helped but not much. ThinkFish was awful - the pages bright blue and difficult to read. It was very much like like after I had cataract surgery. I had yellow cataracts and when they were replaced with clear lenses, everything looked the wrong colour - blues and purples shouted at me, green were more loud and yellowy green than before.

This morning I did some experiments. Loaded Thinkfish and a few other sites into my Amazon Fire, and my son's Samsung tablet. And connected the new laptop to the TV via an hdmi cable. They all showed the same colours, and the same as my old laptop. No blue-purple tint on any of them, including the TV fed from the new laptop. Google suggests either a graphics card problem or a cable to the graphics card not correctly fitted.

One phone call to Currys later and the new laptop will be collected on Tuesday and a replacement sent out within 10 to 14 days. At least I can still persuade my old one to work!