Just got a brand new Achieva Shimian QH270-Lite. First off, It doesn't have pretty much any control, no OSD or anything. Just Power button, brightness up and down buttons and on front, a led displaying orange on stand-by and blue when there is signal. The blue led "flicker" when signal is bad (ie. When using only DVI-D Single Link instead of Dual Link).
Hooked up to my machine and when Windows 7 started the monitor light turned from orange to blue and worked just fine. Then I just browsed my screen settings for a while and BAM! The screen just went black and blue light disappeared, as in no light at all, not even orange.
I immediately tried to fix it by using my old monitor and I removed my video card drivers and re-installed. No help from that. I have a ATI Radeon 5870 video card, so I borrowed a Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS card from my brother. No dice. I tried to fiddle with the power cord, brick and DVI-D cable that came with the monitor. Didn't help either.
Right now, when I got no DVI-cable attached to the computer, the monitor shows orange light (stand-by?). When I plug the cable, orange light disappears and no blue light emerge as it did initially. Backlight turns on ok by the way and I can "crank it" up and down by pressing the buttons on the back of the monitor. I can see the monitor in screen settings page from Windows 7 and AMD CCC (and Nvidia control panel when I used Nvidia card) so EDID info is coming to my computer.
I visited at work and picked up another DVI-D dual-link cable from our stock for testing. The problem still stands. No picture, not even a hint of it.
My best bet is that maybe some internal cable is loose (LVDS?) but does anyone have any hints what I should look if it comes to opening the monitor?
Hooked up to my machine and when Windows 7 started the monitor light turned from orange to blue and worked just fine. Then I just browsed my screen settings for a while and BAM! The screen just went black and blue light disappeared, as in no light at all, not even orange.
I immediately tried to fix it by using my old monitor and I removed my video card drivers and re-installed. No help from that. I have a ATI Radeon 5870 video card, so I borrowed a Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS card from my brother. No dice. I tried to fiddle with the power cord, brick and DVI-D cable that came with the monitor. Didn't help either.
Right now, when I got no DVI-cable attached to the computer, the monitor shows orange light (stand-by?). When I plug the cable, orange light disappears and no blue light emerge as it did initially. Backlight turns on ok by the way and I can "crank it" up and down by pressing the buttons on the back of the monitor. I can see the monitor in screen settings page from Windows 7 and AMD CCC (and Nvidia control panel when I used Nvidia card) so EDID info is coming to my computer.
I visited at work and picked up another DVI-D dual-link cable from our stock for testing. The problem still stands. No picture, not even a hint of it.
My best bet is that maybe some internal cable is loose (LVDS?) but does anyone have any hints what I should look if it comes to opening the monitor?
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