Hello,
I have a Viewsonic VP201 monitor which has been of great use over the last few years. I'm currently having two issues with it:
(1) the DVI input is not working (it was working before but now it doesn't recognize any signal on it - checked the source and it works fine on another monitor). The VGA is working fine.
(2) the color is a bit off and I have a blue-ish hue (as if some color, maybe red? is missing). It's almost like the color is cooler than normal and if I decrease the temperature of the monitor (say from 9000K to 6500K) it somewhat alleviates the problem.
As far as the history on this:
- monitor worked fine ~3-4 years ago (it was brand new back then);
- in the last ~2 years it has developed an issue where if I was displaying a large range of color it was almost missing colors (i.e. an image displayed on it almost looked pixelated and if I was displaying 16.7M colors it's almost like only 65K colors were on screen); this did not bother me much as the monitor was still working great;
- a few weeks ago (~2 months?) I got back home to find the monitor dead; it was not recognizing any input from DVI or VGA but the amber light would go on as if it was powering up;
- I posted a message back then in this forum and I was encouraged to take it apart and post pictures of the caps/different boards/etc.;
- as I was taking it apart I realized that it was no easy feat to get the parts disconnected/etc. but I was able to re-seat some of the edge-connected ribbon cables/connectors/etc.; this brought back the picture but with the symptoms mentioned above in (1) and (2) -- i.e. no DVI, works only through VGA, and the color has a blue-ish hue to it, respectively.
Any thoughts on how I could proceed with this or what the issue might be? Many thanks to all of you for putting up with my verbosity ;-) and for all the help!
I have a Viewsonic VP201 monitor which has been of great use over the last few years. I'm currently having two issues with it:
(1) the DVI input is not working (it was working before but now it doesn't recognize any signal on it - checked the source and it works fine on another monitor). The VGA is working fine.
(2) the color is a bit off and I have a blue-ish hue (as if some color, maybe red? is missing). It's almost like the color is cooler than normal and if I decrease the temperature of the monitor (say from 9000K to 6500K) it somewhat alleviates the problem.
As far as the history on this:
- monitor worked fine ~3-4 years ago (it was brand new back then);
- in the last ~2 years it has developed an issue where if I was displaying a large range of color it was almost missing colors (i.e. an image displayed on it almost looked pixelated and if I was displaying 16.7M colors it's almost like only 65K colors were on screen); this did not bother me much as the monitor was still working great;
- a few weeks ago (~2 months?) I got back home to find the monitor dead; it was not recognizing any input from DVI or VGA but the amber light would go on as if it was powering up;
- I posted a message back then in this forum and I was encouraged to take it apart and post pictures of the caps/different boards/etc.;
- as I was taking it apart I realized that it was no easy feat to get the parts disconnected/etc. but I was able to re-seat some of the edge-connected ribbon cables/connectors/etc.; this brought back the picture but with the symptoms mentioned above in (1) and (2) -- i.e. no DVI, works only through VGA, and the color has a blue-ish hue to it, respectively.
Any thoughts on how I could proceed with this or what the issue might be? Many thanks to all of you for putting up with my verbosity ;-) and for all the help!
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But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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