Nope, the monitor's life has been working fine going strong with not a bit of a problem for the past 24 hours. I posted how I solved the problem yesterday by re-setting the monitor to "default" settings but as of now the post hasn't made the board yet.
On Sep 24, 6:41 pm, V A <va91...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like a power supply issue in the monitor. Probably a capacitor > reaching the end of its life. > > HTH, > Vidya > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:01 PM, JustAFan <justispr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For the past few weeks, I've had a problem with my monitor (Gateway > > FPD1975W TFT LCD Monitor HD Display) experiencing a long delay before > > cutting on. It would take forever for it to read "Gateway Signal > > Detected" then finally cut on and work fine until the next time I cut > > it off again. Then the same thing would repeat. > > > Only today, the problem got worse. When after another long delay, a > > signal finally reached for the monitor to cut on, it came on with a > > beautiful picture display as ever but only for a few seconds then go > > black again. I unplugged the monitor's AC power chord, then replugged > > it back in and the signal would instantly get detected again with the > > monitor cutting on with a beautiful display as ever but only for a few > > seconds then cut back off again. > > > I thought perhaps there was something in the PC causing this so I > > unplugged the monitor's VGA cable from the back of the PC and plugged > > the cable into another PC and the exact same thing happened on the > > other computer as well. > > > So using the exact same monitor VGA cable, I hooked my computer up to > > my Widescreen TV (since it has a VGA input) and now I can see what I > > am doing on the computer while using the TV as a display. > > > But the monitor is sitting useless. > > > Any idea what is going on? Is the life of this monitor over and > > gone? Why is it that I can see a beautiful picture just for a few > > seconds when a signal is detected then nothing? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Computer Tech Support" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > computer-tech-support@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > computer-tech-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to computer-tech-support@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to computer-tech-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
