text: Try the degaus feature on your monitor. It is probably not the monitor though. E-machines are the biggest pieces of crap. You get what you pay for. They use the cheapest parts. The video card is either crap or you may have wiped the driver for it out. Right click on an open area of your desktop and select properties. Then click on the settings tab. Your color should be set to at least 16bit. If you cannot select anything higher than 256 then your video card drivers probably were not restored. You can check by right clicking on my computer and select properties. Then click on the hardware tab. Then click on the device manager tab. If there are yellow circles with exclamation points in them. That means that there is a piece of equipment that the computer don't recognize. Probably need drivers.