Help with monitor

[ReaperDecapod]

Hello...I have a problem with my SAMSUNG PX2370 LED LCD monitor. Sometimes after playing 3D games and having exited to my desktop view, my monitor will have blurring at the center of the screen but not at the left and right sides of my display. This is evident particularly with the text displayed. On the left and right sides, the text is very crisp and clear, but at the center of screen, it is blurred.

I don't have this problem after watching movies. It only arises after running certain but not all games like Dirt 2. All my game display settings are running at the native resolution and same the frequency as my monitor. I am using an Asus Radeon HD 5870 with the latest drivers, running on DVI cable. I did not enable GPU scaling in the Catalyst Control Center. And both 'Reduce DVI frequency' and 'Alternate DVI operational mode' are not enabled. I am running Windows 7 64bit.

I also downloaded drivers from Samsung and installed them but it can't solve the problem. The only way I could make the blur go away is by turning off and then turning on the monitor again without restarting my PC.

Can anyone help me with this please? Any advice would be great. Thanks.

 

[Atheus]

This may be totally off the mark, but I had a flickering issue with my Samsung 2232BW which bugged me for weeks, so I did some reading on Samsung LCDs in general; apparently the most common problem is blown capacitors - they use quite low quality Taiwanese units.

I opened up the monitor and found half the caps on the power board for the backlights were out. Replaced them with nice Japanese caps and it's as good as new. Better actually.

So maybe you have a blown cap on the logic board rather than the power board? Or maybe some other easily replacable component? If you're the soldering-iron-and-screwdriver type of person you might be in luck...