What a beautiful monitor! (My first impression of it in use.) Of course that was after having it apart and before having troubles.
Background: A friend gave me this monitor because it was "acting up." I took it apart before even plugging it in. I found nothing of note in a pretty thorough visual inspection. So, I put it back together and fired it up. That's when I proclaimed what a great looking image it had. And, it worked all that night, leading me to believe it may have just needed internal attention.
However, the next day it didn't power up quite right. It would go through a cycle similar to:
Good image - 7 seconds
OSD Lockout message - 7 seconds
Blank screen - 7 seconds
Good image - 7 seconds
No Video message - 7 seconds
Monitor Status message - ~3 seconds
Good image - 7 seconds
Main Menu - 7 seconds
repeat in random fashion...
After doing this for a while, it stopped and started working fine. I tried leaving it ON continuously, even though the computer was off at night and it worked fine for several days without a single glitch.
Recently it has started in again, but only does a few repetitions before acting normal again.
While it is in its annoying cycling, all buttons including the Power are inhibited. Otherwise, everything works fine.
I'm wondering if a loose ground, or maybe a pullup (or, down) component is failing, but being intermittent, it's very difficult to troubleshoot.
I'm using the monitor as is, but when it fails, it is truly annoying. I haven't tried hitting anything with coolant, yet, although that's on the list the next time I take it apart.
As you can tell, I'm also not in a hurry to jump into it right now, either. But, that could change. In fact, while I was typing this post, the monitor performed two short, but still annoying, failure cycles, delaying my editing until it cleared up.
I thought I'd go ahead and post, in case anyone here has any insight before I do dig into the insides in depth. Maybe, it might even get to a point where it fails more frequently so it can be caught in the act.
Pictures can be provided next time I open it up, if there is any further interest. (Note: one more short failure cycle while I was constructing this paragraph...)
Background: A friend gave me this monitor because it was "acting up." I took it apart before even plugging it in. I found nothing of note in a pretty thorough visual inspection. So, I put it back together and fired it up. That's when I proclaimed what a great looking image it had. And, it worked all that night, leading me to believe it may have just needed internal attention.
However, the next day it didn't power up quite right. It would go through a cycle similar to:
Good image - 7 seconds
OSD Lockout message - 7 seconds
Blank screen - 7 seconds
Good image - 7 seconds
No Video message - 7 seconds
Monitor Status message - ~3 seconds
Good image - 7 seconds
Main Menu - 7 seconds
repeat in random fashion...
After doing this for a while, it stopped and started working fine. I tried leaving it ON continuously, even though the computer was off at night and it worked fine for several days without a single glitch.
Recently it has started in again, but only does a few repetitions before acting normal again.
While it is in its annoying cycling, all buttons including the Power are inhibited. Otherwise, everything works fine.
I'm wondering if a loose ground, or maybe a pullup (or, down) component is failing, but being intermittent, it's very difficult to troubleshoot.
I'm using the monitor as is, but when it fails, it is truly annoying. I haven't tried hitting anything with coolant, yet, although that's on the list the next time I take it apart.
As you can tell, I'm also not in a hurry to jump into it right now, either. But, that could change. In fact, while I was typing this post, the monitor performed two short, but still annoying, failure cycles, delaying my editing until it cleared up.
I thought I'd go ahead and post, in case anyone here has any insight before I do dig into the insides in depth. Maybe, it might even get to a point where it fails more frequently so it can be caught in the act.
Pictures can be provided next time I open it up, if there is any further interest. (Note: one more short failure cycle while I was constructing this paragraph...)
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