Monitor problems

[tp3to]

Hi I have a Samsung P2370 Screen.

Today it went off and would go back on again, the power button(led interface) wasn't even on.
It was off for a short while and when I pressed the power button to shut down the screen came back on again.

Few minutes later while browsing the internet it did it again, this time not going on at all even while restarting my pc. I left it off for a while and bam it went on again. Its weird because I my power setting is all on never shutdown or go on sleep. I also don't think its my 3dcard because then it would have said signal lost or I would have found artifacts while stress testing it.

It seems to me the monitor lost power somehow. Any ideas guy? Because it didn't do it again and I haven't found a "trigger" to let it happen again. Just at random times. (only twice now)

Its still under warranty but I'm afraid if I give it in, they just gonna say there is nothing wrong with it.

 

[Terumo]

Ive had that problem before with a few LG monitors, the touch sensitive power button sometimes goes haywire. Turning on and off at random times. Try and return it if you can, there shouldn't be a problem with the RMA.

 

[tp3to]

Thanks for the advice, I'll do it.

Now just to find that receipt . . .

 

[dal2000]

Hmm now that theres a monitor thread My brother has a 22" LCD LG. He says when plays games, theres a sort of dithering/interlacing affect with the darker colours, grey etc. Most commonly noticed when theres smoke in a game. It only has a d-sub connection and has already been replaced. Anyone have an idea what this could be?

 

[tp3to]

haha you hijacker

 

[HavocXphere]

Had a sorta similar issue about a week ago. Also a Samsung. Also LED interface.

I'm guessing you're running an ATI GFX. Go to the ATI control panel. Switch off VPU recovery, and two options related to DVI...forgot the exact options...one of them was something DVI frequency. That was on the legacy driver though...might be different on the current.

Also, make sure your refresh rate is at 60...sometimes monitors do funky stuff if you select anything else.

The samsungs don't say signal lost...they cycle analog & digital in top left corner.

On the screen I mentioned above if you switch off the screen & back on then it doesn't reacquire the signal again.

Pretty sure you're dealing with a config error here & not defective hardware. I suspect its because of the detection issue. The gfx can sense whether a screen is connected (& what type) and conversely the screen can detect inputs. Somewhere between those two things can go screwy, especially with the new screens that have two way communication w/ HDCP and all kinds of stuff. You can try to force detection of the screen via the gfx control panel...not sure whether that works for dvi though.

Ive had that problem before with a few LG monitors, the touch sensitive power button sometimes goes haywire.

This is unlikely. Doesn't jive with the fact that it switched back on on power down.

 

[tp3to]

Well here is my setup.

Intel e8400
Asus p5e
Corsiar Dominator 4gb 1066mhz
Geforce 275GTX


Well it didn't cycle analog & digital in top left corner it only went out, everything went dead.

I did download drivers and my graphics card does detect my monitor. But thank you for the detailed walkthrough .

 

[dal2000]

Well here is my setup.

Intel e8400
Asus p5e
Corsiar Dominator 4gb 1066mhz
Geforce 275GTX


Well it didn't cycle analog & digital in top left corner it only went out, everything went dead.

I did download drivers and my graphics card does detect my monitor. But thank you for the detailed walkthrough .

The way I see it, that monitor is simply just faulty. Theres no reason it should just "switch off" while you are busy using it, that stinks of hardware failure. Take it back and demand them to change it, just tell them it's an intermittent fault when it switches off and make a scene about it. Obviously it will probably be sent in, unless it's fairly new?

My 2c