I may return my new Gateway monitor!

[Navid]

This morning, I turned on the monitor and then the PC. The PC went through the usual power up routine. But, the monitor stayed blank! I heard the windows start song from the speaker. Yet the monitor still was blank.

I powered down the PC and it did. Now, I could not power down the monitor. The led was stuck on blue. I held it for a few seconds with no success. Finally, I pulled the plug. After connecting the power again, the monitor was still on. But, this time I was able to turn it off by pressing the power button.

Now, it is working.

That could have not been normal! Could it? The monitor is on the VGA connector.

I am considering returning it.

 

[sindows]

With situations like these, I always unplug everything and then replug them making sure they fit tightly against whatever they're being plugged into. If that doesn't work, I would return it. Maybe you should fiddle around with the monitor's settings. Perhaps theres some kinda feature thats keeping it from turning on.

 

[Navid]

I just noticed that the clock on microwave was stuck. That happens when its power is disconnected. So, there must have been a power outage last night!

But, the thing is that I turn off the monitor every night and I did last night too before going to bed. So, when the power went out, the monitor was off.

 

[wanderer27]

If you lost power during the night, when it came back (or even when it went down) you probably got some power line spikes.

I lost a PSU in a computer like this once even though it was turned off. I've also lost some other equipment before from situations like this.
This is why I'm a firm believer in having my expensive equipment on either a high quality surge protector or a UPS.

Heck, I even lost a UPS here a couple of months ago from this (our power sucks). I'd rather loose a UPS than $1000-$2000 of Computer equipment.

 

[xtknight]

After a power outage, my LCD showed a theft deterrent message, lol. (I finally got it away by bruteforcing the hard-reset.)

Make sure it's nothing obvious. Try input select (make sure it's on the right input) and then auto-adjust to setup the VGA correctly. And if it still doesn't show an image, manually adjust phase/clock. Otherwise contact Gateway and see if you can get a hard-reset code which may fix something. The OSD works, correct?

 

[Navid]

The monitor is powered through an APC 725VA UPS.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Make sure it's nothing obvious. Maybe try auto-adjust to setup the VGA correctly. Otherwise contact Gateway and see if you can get a hard-reset code which may fix something.

There is nothing wrong now!