2005 FPW

[Stormheart]

Thanks for looking, hopefully this can be fixed. Bare with me while I try and explain what's going on. This is a brand new one just recieved today. It has no bad pixels using Dead Pixel Buddy and a backlight issue that is very minimal. But, there's like 3 or 4 spots on the display where there seems to be 5 or 6 rows of pixels flashing on and off, and only when soemthing like a web page or wall paper is being displayed. If these are actually pixels I'm looking at were talking about a couple hundred of them maybe. They don't show at all in Pixel Buddy either. If I have a browser page open full screen, and open up a second one that's not full screen but overlayed on top of it, the smaller one gets these lines all over it. I don't know anything really about monitors or there adjustments but does this sound like something anyone has seen before..? My video card is a BFG 6800GT and I'm hooked up via DVI. I did go to the Dell website and loaded the latest driver for this LCD that they had. No change. I called Dell and there first response was replace it. I just didn't want to yet because I have this gut feeling something else is going on. Any clues..?

 

[Stormheart]

The only other comp I have is an Inspiron notebook, I thought about hooking the display up to it to see if the problem followed the LCD but I'm not sure if it can even drive it. It's got a 64 meg video card. It almost seems like this is interference of some type but I honestly have no clue.

 

[Childs]

I have seen it on my 2005FP, and once on an Apple 23" Cinema Display driven by a proto x800 XT in a Mac. Reboot in both cases fixed the problem.

 

[Stormheart]

Well, it seems it was my video card. After trying a few other things I re-seated the card and all is well now. It seemed like it was seated firmly to begin with, but that's what did the trick..../shrug.

 

[Bateluer]

Glad you fixed it. I'm loving my 2005FPW. I was seriously considering returning it for the backlight issue, but after gaming on the panel for a week, screw it. I'm keeping it.