White shades of screen turns a strange blue colour...

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White shades of screen turns a strange blue colour...

This is strange... My Macbook (new as of a month and a bit ago) will suddenly have a sort of screen colour change, with all of the pure white shades of my screen going a very bright shade of blue. The blue comes out in everything.... my background pic, screensaver, basic internet windows... anything. But it goes in and out.

It first happened a few weeks ago, and lasted almost an entire day before suddenly just flipping back into normal colours. It happened again tonight for a couple hours, but has again flicked back to normal.

Any suggestions?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 23, 2008 12:29 AM

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Answer 1

Chiahua

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Feb 27, 2009 8:58 AM in response to sms17

I started to get that blue shade today and it already happened twice!! What's weird was that it turned back to normal when I move the monitor back and forth. Similar thing happened to my 5yr-old labtop with a big crack at the back of the monitor. Everything turn blue on that labtop but on my Mac, only white screens turn blue. This is freaking me out because I only had this mac for 3 months!!!

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cweyer

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Dec 7, 2008 11:27 PM in response to sms17

I too have experienced this issue, usually when waking from sleep mode. The problem is quickly corrected by accessing the Displays preferences pane, at which point the colors return to normal.

It seems to be a problem with the gamma settings in the color profile. The display appears to "forget" the native gamma setting.

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Answer 3

Mar 8, 2009 3:55 PM in response to cweyer

hello, this just happened to me too - i turned my comp back on from sleep mode and got the bright blue color. however, i just opened the displays preferences pane, but it hasn't gone back to normal. any suggestions as to how else i can fix this? thanks.

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Answer 4

Nov 23, 2008 6:38 PM in response to sms17

Same here. Logged back in to dismiss the screen saver, only to find that the entire screen had a blue tint. Once I opened the Displays preference pane, the screen returned on its own to normal. Odd.

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Answer 5

Dec 30, 2008 12:30 PM in response to cweyer

I just got the same issue today. Interesting point is that we all get the same mild BLUE shade! It's not hardware related, hopefully!

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sarats

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Jan 2, 2009 10:35 AM in response to p.partovi

I am also getting this issue as is another person in my office. Has anyone contacted Apple about this already?

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Answer 7

May 4, 2009 7:23 AM in response to kyoryu16x

Has anyone figured out what is causing this and/or what needs to be done? This just happened to me last night....

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