Monitor problem!!

[kwagner_51]

Ok. I have a 19" CRT StarLogic Monitor. It is about 1 1/2 yrs old. The problems started about 2 weeks ago. My son said that he was reading and it just went black. The green light was still on but there was no picture. I was able to get it back and assumed that it was related to the screensaver switching or else it was getting ready to change the desktop picture.

Yesterday I was sitting at the pc when I saw it. The screen brought the picture from the d/t up really close, like when the settings are changed to 600 x 400 and then went black. I couldn't get it back.

Today I plugged it back in and it worked for about 15 min. I connected an old monitor and it works great. I went from 19" to 13".

Is the monitor toast? Does anyone know where I can find the web page for this monitor?

I have the serial num.

Thanks!!

[ptluzzi]

i would guess the monitor is wasted. they dont cost much so if i were you i would spend 200$ and get another one.

[Mini-Me]

I would guess that the monitor's intelligence is getting itself confused with the screen resolutions. Generally speaking, most monitor's circuitry analyzes the incoming signal to detirmine the resolution it should switch too(usually the timebase frequency + the colour depth), and if this signal is being mis-interpreted, this will cause the monitor's on-board computer to switch resolutions. Usually this happens automatically, as the monitor thinks: "800 x 600. Nope, wait, 640 x 480. Nope, actually 1024 x 768." Modern monitors are actually quite clever in their own right, and most new ones these days will even tell you in plain english on the screen, if the input resolution is not supported("Unsupported resolution!"), whereas older ones would try anyway, and could even burn themselves out if fed with a resolution they do not support.

While you can certainly fix this kind of problem by tracking why the on-board computer in the monitor is switching resolutions, replacement is a better and cheaper option, as you could easily spend on the old monitor, what it would cost you to replace it with a new one.

Glass monitors(CRT's) are very cheap these days, as ptluzzi hinted.
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