Monitor Dying?

2010-06-08 19:43:21

#1

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6949|Devon, England

I've had my monitor for about... 5 years now, maybe. It's a basic, no-name 19" flat panel (1280 x 1024) monitor.

My PC is on pretty much 24/7, but when I go bed I turn the monitors off. When I wake up, though, and turn my main monitor on, it kind of... 'Fades' part of the screen on, then completely fades to black. It will do this for about 10 minutes while I keep turning it off and on again until it just randomly decides to turn on properly.

If you don't know exactly what I mean, I will try and get a recording of it in the morning.

I kind of hope it's not broke, as I don't wanna have to get a new monitor, or use my left and right monitors for the centre...

I've just now set the Refresh rate down, hoping maybe that'll do something.

Any help would be appreciated

2010-06-08 22:19:08

#2

alexb: <3; +590|6198|Kentucky, USA

Sounds like its dying.

2010-06-09 04:52:26

#3

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6046|Catherine Black

alexb wrote:
Sounds like its dying.

This... no name brands tend to do that.

2010-06-09 05:39:35

#4

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6729

Finray wrote:
alexb wrote:
Sounds like its dying.
This... no name brands tend to do that.

err one of my samsung syncmasters used to do it

check the power supply to your monitor. make sure it's the right cable. if something technical is playing up with it, you'll often hear a high-pitch 'whining' sound as well, that's the capacitors and circuitry coughing and spluttering.

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2010-06-09 05:46:26

#5

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6949|Devon, England

Changing refresh rate didn't help, I'll check power stuff now, cheers.

2010-06-09 05:49:59

#6

tazz.: oz.; +1,338|6433|Sydney | ♥

time for a new monitor m8.

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2010-06-09 06:01:44

#7

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6949|Devon, England

Fuck.

Well I'll just have to not turn it off, then... lol

til I can get a new one, anyway...

2010-06-09 06:06:14

#8

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6046|Catherine Black

Uzique I meant no-name brands tend to die.

2010-06-09 06:12:53

#9

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6949|Devon, England

Actually, it's probably about 6 or 7 years old...

.. It's been good to me so far, anyway.

2010-06-09 06:22:23

#10

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6729

Finray wrote:
Uzique I meant no-name brands tend to die.

yeah i meant that my samsung died too, and it was a samsung

so what's your point?

monitors 'tend to die' after 5yrs+

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2010-06-09 09:21:04

#11

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5975|Vancouver, BC, Canada

Semi-related,

I have a shitty Benq monitor that I inherited and use as a second screen, aside from a single red stuck pixel(which I think is actually gone now that I just looked0 the monitor works fine,

But when I turn it off it gives off this quiet extremely high-pitch sound. Like something that adults probably wouldn't hear.

Bad?

2010-06-09 09:28:52

#12

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6455|Winland

You've probably got bad caps in the digital part of it. An easy fix that any old-time TV repair shop should be able to do for cheap.

TheDonkey wrote:
Semi-related,

I have a shitty Benq monitor that I inherited and use as a second screen, aside from a single red stuck pixel(which I think is actually gone now that I just looked0 the monitor works fine,

But when I turn it off it gives off this quiet extremely high-pitch sound. Like something that adults probably wouldn't hear.

Bad?

That's definitely bad caps in the power supply. It'll fail soon.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2010-06-09 12:29:06

#13

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6729

TheDonkey wrote:
Semi-related,

I have a shitty Benq monitor that I inherited and use as a second screen, aside from a single red stuck pixel(which I think is actually gone now that I just looked0 the monitor works fine,

But when I turn it off it gives off this quiet extremely high-pitch sound. Like something that adults probably wouldn't hear.

Bad?

that's what i had in my samsung monitor - if you'd have read my post

it was broken/faulty caps in the power supply. i swapped out the cable for one with a different fuse - problem gone.

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2010-06-09 12:36:03

#14

Chou: Member; +737|7049

Damn.. I just checked the info on my screen and it has 13.278 back light hours and 25.643 total.

2010-06-09 13:39:54

#15

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6949|Devon, England

Freezer7Pro wrote:
You've probably got bad caps in the digital part of it. An easy fix that any old-time TV repair shop should be able to do for cheap.

Awesome, cheers.

Any downside for me taking my time with this fix?

2010-06-09 14:33:07

#16

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6455|Winland

Uzique wrote:
it was broken/faulty caps in the power supply. i swapped out the cable for one with a different fuse - problem gone.

I don't think you understand what a capacitor is.

FFLink wrote:
Freezer7Pro wrote:
You've probably got bad caps in the digital part of it. An easy fix that any old-time TV repair shop should be able to do for cheap.
Awesome, cheers.

Any downside for me taking my time with this fix?

What exactly do you mean? The longer you take to fix it, the more unreliable the monitor will become. Once the caps go bad enough, something might break beyond repair.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2010-06-09 19:10:02

#17

FFLink: There is.; +1,380|6949|Devon, England

Ahh, I see.

Ok, I'll look into it, cheers.

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