I'm not sure whats wrong, but i turned on my monitor this morning (one of two) and it worked fine for a little while, then all of a sudden the "gamma" on the monitor turned up really high, i tried to turn it back down with the menu buttons on the monitor but it didn't work... so i turned it off and on again, then it was only a gradient from white to dark gray with lighter spots on it =S...





so i let it stay for a while to cool down or whatever, and tried to turn it back on, this time (and now) its starts at black, with a white line on the top of the monitor. then i slowly(slooooowly, takes a couple minutes) turns white..., on the way from black to white it gets a lot of "noise" random colored pixels around the screen, which disappears when it all the way white...


heres my system specs... taken from xfire
Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Processor: Intel® Core™2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2048MB RAM
Hard Drive: 1,3TB total
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
Monitor: Standard Monitor
Sound Card: Realtek HD Audio output
Keyboard: USB rothub
Mouse:
USB rothub
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254)

all help is highly appreciated =)

Did you try another monitor?

what do you mean? another monitor on the same pc? thats what im doing now =P. i had 2 monitors on the pc...
so in that case it is the monitor which is destroyed... but i just thought it was wired that it happened like that

I may have misunderstood your problem so correct me if I am wrong; from what I understood, you are having a problem with your monitor and that’s why I was asking whether you tried another one or not. If I understood wrong, then can you please further clarify what the problem is?

thats correct, i have problems with my monitor (my pc works just fine), and i have tried another monitor on the pc, but i havent tried the broken monitor on another pc...

It could be that the monitor is going bad; it happened to me once.

i dont know how a lcd screen usually lasts, but i think ive only had this monitor for about 2 years or so...

is there anything that can be done about it?

You can send it back for repair or replacement if it's under warranty; or you can take it to a repair shop and see how much it will cost you first, and whether if it's worth repairing or not, but other than that I don't recommend that you mess with it.

That looks like a CRT to me, not an LCD (I stand to be corrected if I'm wrong). What Dino is asking is did a different monitor do the same thing, or did a different monitor work correctly? If a different monitor (LCD or CRT, doesn't make any difference) did same thing your monitor went Kaput. There is no repairing those old CRTs. In fact, there is no repairing LCDs either. Check your video cord and make sure that there are no breaks or bent pins, but it probably went to that great junkpile in the sky.

CRT is the huge(old) screens right? then no its not that, it it the thin LCD screens, i think its about 2 years old... the one i use now which works fine with the same pc (so its only the one monitor) do you know how long the warranty for a monitor lasts? here in Norway its either 2 or 5 years... I'm not rlly sure if i expect it to last for 5 years =P... I'm using my dads other widescreen monitor atm, and it works just fine =), so i guess its just the monitor... but i talked to my brother and he though it seemed weired because it was a LCD screen, that it just went like poof =P



This is how the broken monitor looks like on the right side after about 20 seconds



heres both my screens, the one on the left is my dads ( the working one) and on the right the broken one



here you see that its not a crt monitor, but a "thin" lcd monitor

any more questions, misunderstandings or statements =) they're all welcome here =)

I guess that we are just having a “lost in translation” situation here.
Back to the issue at hand; for warranty check up you can consult the documentation that came with your monitor, or you can contact whoever sold it to you and ask them about it.

I just reviewed what I had said and got it backwards What I meant, is if the other test monitor does the same thing, the problem is in your video card or mainboard (depending on if you have a video card or are using onboard video). If the other test monitor works fine, then your problem monitor went Kaput. Sorry about that, I must learn not to be in such a darn hurry.

hehe thats ok
i have an own video card. not built in.
my card has 2 slots out my other monitor is now running on the port that the "poofed" screen run at, so in that case it is the monitor which is kaput. with test monitor, do you just mean another montor to test the card? to see what part went kaput. if not, what? =P

i had 2 screens atm when the one of them went bad... i have tried the good one on both the videocard ports.
just a question, on videocards, you have VGA ports (the blue) and DVI?? (the white ones) =P

That is what I meant. The two ports are known as VGA and DVI. If you have a choice, you may get a slightly better picture on the DVI port if you run your LCD on that one. Of course, the monitor must have DVI-in, most of them do now.

the one that poofed was a VGA only monitor. but the one i use now only has DVi input so on the old one i had to use a converter from the pc to the cord to the monitor because my pc only has 2 DVi outputs.