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Roy C

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My system was working perfectly up to last night. Switched on this morning and the monitor has gone all to pot, heavy green tinge, very dark and horizontal and vertical lines showing, basically unusable. I have checked all the connections including the graphics card. The monitor is an old CRT - can a monitor just die like this without any warning? or could it be something else.

What does seem strange is that when I power down and the PC has shut off I get a power save message come up on the monitor and the colours and text look fine !!!!!!
 
Sounds like it could be the computer if the monitor is showing the power save text okay. Do you have another monitor to test with the PC?
 
Steve W said:
Sounds like it could be the computer if the monitor is showing the power save text okay. Do you have another monitor to test with the PC?
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Unfortunately I have not got another monitor Steve.

neil_g said:
could be a duff cable and/or graphics card as the powersave message wont be coming from those sources..
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Neil, the cable from the monitor is hard wired into monitor so I cannot change it.

Just had a thought guys, I will try to hook my laptop up to the monitor -could tell me something.
 
UPDATE: Just the same when hooked up to the laptop - I guess that narrows it down to the Monitor or Cable. BTW the Power save screen is still OK via the laptop so could this mean it must be the cable? if so how the heck do you change it as it is not the plug in type at the monitor end.
Thanks for you help guys :thumbs:
 
If you "wiggle" the monitor cable (VGA cable) near each end of it whilst the laptop/pc is on does that make any difference? If so the cable is knackered. The only way to change the cable it to open up the monitor if there is no plug at the monitor end.
 
neil_g said:
or just bin it and replace with an LCD ;)
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I have been looking at a new lcd for a while now - in particular the Dell 2410 but the more I read the more I am put off buying anything under about £1k for image editing - I have been dreading the day my trusty CRT packs up :bang:
 
Roy C said:
I have been looking at a new lcd for a while now - in particular the Dell 2410 but the more I read the more I am put off buying anything under about £1k for image editing - I have been dreading the day my trusty CRT packs up :bang:
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Roy if you are spending that much I would suggest the Eizo ColorEdge range, I have the CG19 and have just added a CG223W both are superb monitors, the CG19 however is no longer available.

I have used Native Digital for both, and if you ring them for advice they are extremely helpful LINK
 
Martyn... said:
Roy if you are spending that much I would suggest the Eizo ColorEdge range, I have the CG19 and have just added a CG223W both are superb monitors, the CG19 however is no longer available.

I have used Native Digital for both, and if you ring them for advice they are extremely helpful LINK
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I was hoping to get something for £500 max Martyn.
I see the 223w has a VA panel, I don't know much about it but I thought that IPS panels were best for image editing.
 
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Roy C said:
I was hoping to get something for £500 max Martyn.
I see the 223w has a VA panel, I don't know much about it but I thought that IPS panels were best for image editing.
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Roy, there are good IPS and bad IPS panel monitors, there are good VA and bad VA panel monitors.

Worth a chat with Martin Doyle at Native Digital on the subject, there is more to a monitor than bunging a panel in a case.

If £500 is the most you want to spend I would suggest ringing and asking what they recommend.
 
Martyn... said:
Roy, there are good IPS and bad IPS panel monitors, there are good VA and bad VA panel monitors.

Worth a chat with Martin Doyle at Native Digital on the subject, there is more to a monitor than bunging a panel in a case.

If £500 is the most you want to spend I would suggest ringing and asking what they recommend.
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:agree:

Pity you missed out on them selling off the cg222ws, they went for about £500 and I rate mine highly even if its only got a s-pva panel ;)
 
Your problem may be the end connector to the CRT. They get corroded with age so take it off and put it back a few times to clean the contacts but BEWARE HIGH VOLTAGE!

On LCDs, I have had an EIZO for years now and cannot fault it.
 
paul_g said:
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Pity you missed out on them selling off the cg222ws, they went for about £500 and I rate mine highly even if its only got a s-pva panel ;)
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I preferred the stand on the CG223W, as it allows me to position the monitor lower than on the previous model (and my CG19). Wearing varifocals is a pain in the neck when the monitor sits too high :D
 
DonnaM said:
Your problem may be the end connector to the CRT. They get corroded with age so take it off and put it back a few times to clean the contacts but BEWARE HIGH VOLTAGE!

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The trouble is Donna that the cable is hard wired into the monitor - it is not just plugged in.
 
Roy C said:
The trouble is Donna that the cable is hard wired into the monitor - it is not just plugged in.
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Understand, but to do what I suggested, you would need to take the back off the monitor and poke around inside. That is why it is so dangerous. I am a retired electronics engineer so I have some experience in such things. If you are not happy about doing it, and I can't blame you, then go buy an LCD.
 
Roy C said:
I have been looking at a new lcd for a while now - in particular the Dell 2410 but the more I read the more I am put off buying anything under about £1k for image editing - I have been dreading the day my trusty CRT packs up
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I've got a Dell 2408 and think its fantastic, I like you read a lot of reviews and threads from hardware forums before I bought one. I think sometimes you can read too much into something, especially monitors as everyone's eyes are different and can perceive different attributes (flickering, lag, motion blur, etc) at differing rates.

Also most of the threads I read I found you get people mostly complaining, very rarely do you get people searching for threads on a specific subject just to register praise (as sad as it may seem).
 
Thanks for the info guys :thumbs:

I have just ordered a Dell U2410 hopefully for tomorrow delivery (trying to work from a laptop is a pain).
 
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