My girlfriend has a Gateway gt4010 desktop computer and has been running into a couple problems lately. I am out of town and can't see the computer for myself, but I think i know what the problem is and just wanted a couple opinions.
She uses onboard video, and onboard sound with a 22" LCD monitor that has speakers on it as well. Last night she told me that the monitor started to display a blue tint, so I told her to wiggle the VGA cable on both ends a little bit to see if that triggered the problem in which it didn't. Then today she told me that her sound stopped working, which is onboard, and speakers are apart of the monitor.
She plugged headphones into the headphone jack in the back and still didn't hear sound, but heard sound through the front headphone jack using headphones and the monitor's speakers. (this to me cancelled out the speakers being the problem, and probably cancelling the monitor being the video problem as well).
Seeing that both problems are existing onboard, would this mean that the motherboard is slowly dieing? Ideas?
She uses onboard video, and onboard sound with a 22" LCD monitor that has speakers on it as well. Last night she told me that the monitor started to display a blue tint, so I told her to wiggle the VGA cable on both ends a little bit to see if that triggered the problem in which it didn't. Then today she told me that her sound stopped working, which is onboard, and speakers are apart of the monitor.
She plugged headphones into the headphone jack in the back and still didn't hear sound, but heard sound through the front headphone jack using headphones and the monitor's speakers. (this to me cancelled out the speakers being the problem, and probably cancelling the monitor being the video problem as well).
Seeing that both problems are existing onboard, would this mean that the motherboard is slowly dieing? Ideas?