I have a ImageQuest Q17 flat panel monitor. Its about 1.5 years old and has worked fine. Yesterday I shut the monitor off but not the computer, when I pushed the power button about 1/2 hour later, the monitor came on for about 30 seconds and the picture disappeared. THe power light stays on. When I hook up my old 100 pound monitor, it works fine. The nice one I can see won't work.
I have tried unplugging everything, changing the monitor to its own power outlet (instead of the surge strip), looking for (but not finding) a reset button, uninstalling the driver and reinstalling. Nothing works. All I can get is the 30 seconds to work. It looks fine in those 30 seconds by the way. Does anyone know what this could be?
When you turn it on, and it's running for those 30 seconds, try to quickly turn down the brighness and contrast. This happened to me a couple of times at work with some of the flat screens there. Hope this helps!
Matthew 23:24 "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel."
I would believe the chip board inside the monitor has developed a flaw. Perhaps one of the circuits are getting thin. Problably from wear and tear... or badly made.
Don't count on that monitor to stay alive more than... well... a couple of months, tops.
A new idea... perhaps it is wayout, but try and yank out your graphics card, and put it back in. Possibly, try and update the drivers, or flash the onbaord bios on the graphics card. If you want to do that, you have to be VERY sure what bios you flash it with, choosing the wrong bios, can kill your card!!!
flashing the graphics card bios is wayout definitely...it shouldn't be that drastic but the problem is in the MONITOR not video card lol... and yeah i'll agree with advent, that piece of hardware is done.
If your monitor is dead, buy a CRT instead of an LCD. They last longer, offer better quality graphics at better resolutions, are less fragile, and not to mention they're generally cheaper.
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