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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
