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Needles
March 16th, 2009, 04:46 PM
I tried to turn on my pc, and I have a samsung 204bw monitor. It's a year old. I start up the pc today, and everything is fine, the fans turn on, the wireless chip and keyboard work. But the monitor just stays blank, the power button flashing. Restarting the pc and unplugging and replugging everything hasn't worked. Google hasn't done anything. I need help, very fast to, since my dad is willing to throw out the $250 monitor very fast.
Needles
March 16th, 2009, 04:57 PM
It was a nice 20" 1680x1050 lcd. If I don't get this fixed, I'm going to get a cheap low-resolution one.
I've tried another monitor, and it works, but my dad needs that one. The one that doesn't work has worked for 2 years, I haven't changed drivers right before this happened. I am literally going to lose it in 2-4 hrs. if I can't get it to work, I have very inpatient parents.
Boo Diddly
March 16th, 2009, 05:16 PM
Wow, impatent indeed. must loath hate that monitor. Did you try different monitor cables? Try pressing random buttons on the monitor (stupid but might work). If your monitor has different types of imputs it may be set to the wrong one.

Thats what I can think of atm
Needles
March 16th, 2009, 05:23 PM
Wow, impatent indeed. must loath hate that monitor. Did you try different monitor cables? Try pressing random buttons on the monitor (stupid but might work). If your monitor has different types of imputs it may be set to the wrong one.

Thats what I can think of atm

I did. And samsung wasn't any help. They told me to fill out a service request form thing, and they oldest BW model is 205, 204 isn't a choice.
Boo Diddly
March 16th, 2009, 05:27 PM
Meh, might have just up and died. The one monitor at work one day decided to say fu and the screen goes black after a min of being turned on. Didn't have it for even a year.
Needles
March 16th, 2009, 05:29 PM
Meh, might have just up and died. The one monitor at work one day decided to say fu and the screen goes black after a min of being turned on. Didn't have it for even a year.

It's only about 1 1/2 years old! I don't get why it would so fast.
Boo Diddly
March 16th, 2009, 05:32 PM
Crappy chip somewhere fried, loose connection broke, Murphy's law decided you had too much fun, etc.
itszutak
March 16th, 2009, 05:41 PM
I had a refurbished 24'' monitor die on me after six months. Screen was flickering, stuttering, switching to different resolutions and color depths, etc.

But in your case it sounds like there's a connection issue. I'm not entirely sure how you'd fix that.
InnerGoat
March 16th, 2009, 05:51 PM
It's only about 1 1/2 years old! I don't get why it would so fast.They're cheap panels what do you expect. Have you checked both video ports? :party:
DrunkenSamus
March 17th, 2009, 12:11 AM
I had a refurbished 24'' monitor die on me after six months. Screen was flickering, stuttering, switching to different resolutions and color depths, etc.

But in your case it sounds like there's a connection issue. I'm not entirely sure how you'd fix that.

Refurbished. That's why.
Needles
March 17th, 2009, 07:26 AM
Mine isn't refurbished. I tried to switch out plugs, didn't work. One other pc had the monitor work for about 1 hour, then it stopped again. Before I got it to work for another hour, I had to reboot multiple times and deal with stuttering and freezes while the monitor worked for an hour.
Cojafoji
March 17th, 2009, 02:24 PM
Sounds like the back light died.
quick edit, either the back light died, or the internal power converter for the lcd died. I've had both happen. You might be able to get the parts off of ebay etc.
Needles
March 17th, 2009, 05:31 PM
Just tried it again, and was ready to get a new backlight, but it worked. It shuttered a lot in start up, but after not working the whole morning, it does now. It seems that when the pc puts itself into sleep mode and the monitor goes into power saver, it won't turn on for hours after, which is strange. I can press all the buttons I want, and it'll just blink for hours and then it seems to turn itself on randomly.

It's going through stages of working then not working for a bit then repeating, I'll just hope it stays working this time. If not, I'll try to get my mom to spend a tiny bit to get some new part or something.
Pyong Kawaguchi
March 17th, 2009, 08:51 PM
Heh, thats quite odd, atleast it works though.
And murphy's law can kiss my but, my 300$ CRT monitor with super resolutions from whoknowshowlongago still runs fine, and i got it, for free.
Needles
March 17th, 2009, 08:57 PM
Heh, thats quite odd, atleast it works though.
And murphy's law can kiss my but, my 300$ CRT monitor with super resolutions from whoknowshowlongago still runs fine, and i got it, for free.

It probably just shut itself off to go into power save mode, I'm going to have to hope it turns on tomorrow.

EDIT: I just had to reboot the pc 3 times to get the monitor working. I switched from digital/LCD option to the Analog/CRT option to see if that will help. I'm going to re-install drivers for the monitor tomorrow.
Cortexian
March 18th, 2009, 05:11 AM
Does your monitor have an input select button? Sometimes after my PC wakes from sleep my monitor fails to detect a signal and I have to use the input selection button to get it to recheck the two inputs (DVI/VGA).