Broken Monitor

[AK]

I own a Trinitron P992 19'' monitor I got from Dell, two years ago. Last
night I went to bed with my monitor off, and my computer on, as always.
This morning, when I turned it on, a second after it turns
on, and the green light starts to glow, it shuts down, without ever
displaying anything on the screen, in another second, it turns on again, only to repeat this
process indefinatly. On, off, on, off every second.
I've never had this issue with this monitor before, and no real issues with it ever.
Could someone please offer some advice as to how to fix this. Thanks in
advance.

 

[General Schvantzkoph]

> I own a Trinitron P992 19'' monitor I got from Dell, two years ago. Last

> night I went to bed with my monitor off, and my computer on, as always.

> This morning, when I turned it on, a second after it turns on, and the

> green light starts to glow, it shuts down, without ever displaying

> anything on the screen, in another second, it turns on again, only to

> repeat this process indefinatly. On, off, on, off every second. I've

> never had this issue with this monitor before, and no real issues with

> it ever. Could someone please offer some advice as to how to fix this.

> Thanks in advance.

I've been seeing something similiar on my Dell monitor (don't know the
model number but it's a 20" Trinitron), it shuts off and only a power
cycle will restart it. Sometimes it does this repeatedly and sometimes it
works fine for hours. I've recently started using the NVidia drivers
instead of the unaccellerated XFree86 drivers and I've been wondering if
this could be the source of the problem. What graphics card do you have?
If it's an Nvidia based card, which driver are you using.

 

[kony]

>I own a Trinitron P992 19'' monitor I got from Dell, two years ago. Last

>night I went to bed with my monitor off, and my computer on, as always.

>This morning, when I turned it on, a second after it turns

>on, and the green light starts to glow, it shuts down, without ever

>displaying anything on the screen, in another second, it turns on again, only to repeat this

>process indefinatly. On, off, on, off every second.

>I've never had this issue with this monitor before, and no real issues with it ever.

>Could someone please offer some advice as to how to fix this. Thanks in

>advance.

We recently had a Compaq Trinitron P990 do something similar, though it
wasn't fixed, had 3 year onsite warranty attached to the monitor which
Compaq/HP replaced with an HP Diamondtron 19"... a slight downgrade but a
working monitor beats nothing.

You probably have a capacitor going out, might be $75 to fix but that's a
guess at the price in your local... for a 2 year old 19" Trinitron it's
worthwhile to have it repaired by a professional.

 

[AK]

I've been seeing something similiar on my Dell monitor (don't know the
model number but it's a 20" Trinitron), it shuts off and only a power
cycle will restart it. Sometimes it does this repeatedly and sometimes it
works fine for hours. I've recently started using the NVidia drivers
instead of the unaccellerated XFree86 drivers and I've been wondering if
this could be the source of the problem. What graphics card do you have?
If it's an Nvidia based card, which driver are you using.

Im using an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with the latest fglrx drivers, but the
monitor wont even start up connected to a completly different outlet, and
not hooked up to a computer.

 

[AK]

We recently had a Compaq Trinitron P990 do something similar, though it
wasn't fixed, had 3 year onsite warranty attached to the monitor which
Compaq/HP replaced with an HP Diamondtron 19"... a slight downgrade but a
working monitor beats nothing.

You probably have a capacitor going out, might be $75 to fix but that's a
guess at the price in your local... for a 2 year old 19" Trinitron it's
worthwhile to have it repaired by a professional.

ok thats a start, thanks