Monitor woes....
Jan. 3rd, 2010 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzMy Samsung monitor is giving me trouble, and I can't seem to Google the problem, so let's ask the cloud.
It's a flatscreen LCD monitor which, after the initial problems of getting a monitor without dead pixels has been performing admirably until a few weeks ago. It first started with a very, very dark, very nearly black screen right after standby mode. It's getting progressively worse. Nowadays it goes black after coming out of stand by mode nearly every time, and turning the monitor off after you've done what you need to do doesn't help anymore (it did at first).
It happens every single time it's turned on again after having been in stand-by mode, and since today also even if I turn it off in stead of it just going into stand-by. Sometimes turning the monitor on and off again helps, but lately I need to retry this three or four or six or seven times...without any guarantuee of success.
The only thing that seems to help is to whack it over the top of the screen, and turning it on and off, making me fear it's a loosening wire... and whacking your monitor can't be good for the monitor.
The room my pc is in isn't very warm, but at least it's heated by a big server. I'm guessing it's between 15-20°C in here, which should be warm enough. And I haven't changed any settings in my Ubuntu-configuration (Jaunty Jackalope, 9.04) in months, so that can't be causing the problems.
Once it's on, it stays working until it's back in stand-by mode, so this seems to have something to do with it.
NoKey is a bit stumped and can't figure it out, and so far Google-fu has only turned up reviews of LCD-monitors of people whining it breaks after a year, and sales ads for black monitors, which isn't helping.
Anyone? It's getting really frelling annoying by now. Hardware should just do its job and not whine about it.
It's a flatscreen LCD monitor which, after the initial problems of getting a monitor without dead pixels has been performing admirably until a few weeks ago. It first started with a very, very dark, very nearly black screen right after standby mode. It's getting progressively worse. Nowadays it goes black after coming out of stand by mode nearly every time, and turning the monitor off after you've done what you need to do doesn't help anymore (it did at first).
It happens every single time it's turned on again after having been in stand-by mode, and since today also even if I turn it off in stead of it just going into stand-by. Sometimes turning the monitor on and off again helps, but lately I need to retry this three or four or six or seven times...without any guarantuee of success.
The only thing that seems to help is to whack it over the top of the screen, and turning it on and off, making me fear it's a loosening wire... and whacking your monitor can't be good for the monitor.
The room my pc is in isn't very warm, but at least it's heated by a big server. I'm guessing it's between 15-20°C in here, which should be warm enough. And I haven't changed any settings in my Ubuntu-configuration (Jaunty Jackalope, 9.04) in months, so that can't be causing the problems.
Once it's on, it stays working until it's back in stand-by mode, so this seems to have something to do with it.
NoKey is a bit stumped and can't figure it out, and so far Google-fu has only turned up reviews of LCD-monitors of people whining it breaks after a year, and sales ads for black monitors, which isn't helping.
Anyone? It's getting really frelling annoying by now. Hardware should just do its job and not whine about it.
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Date: 2010-01-03 06:41 pm (UTC)How to fix... No idea!
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Date: 2010-01-03 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-04 09:06 am (UTC)And when the backlight starts to fail there is simply no way you can fix it yourself.
I've tried replacing backlights several times and 9 out of 10 times it was a simple utter failure.
I guess you did already try loading the factory defaults on the monitor.
And well if there is no more warranty on the monitor you could try opening it and check the wires.