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Monitor or Video Card

Gameboie

Gameboie

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I have a custom computer from www,Ironsidecomputers.com in March. I have an Acer Ferrari F22 monitor that I have had for some time. Recently If I leave the computer off for say 20+ mins the monitor will not come back on. I press the power button and it will come back on but not right away. It can take 3-10 min playing with it. I am looking for any advice. I checked and double checked all the power settings. The power light does flash, but not normally.

Thank you for your time,
Marc
 
What are your specs? GPU(s)? Is this a 22" 1680x1050 LCD?

The only problem I ever had with my LCD is when the DVI-D cable came a little loose once. It did the same thing as yours.

More knowledgeable people will answer you if you give us your specs.
 
It is Is this a 22" 1680x1050. The video card is a nvidia 660 2gb. I really have to play with it to get a picture, but once it's on it's good. No problems.
 
I'd try another monitor to rule out the gpu and go from there. Chances are your monitor is about to go out. I have a nice lg 24" va panel that did the same thing and then they deliberately stalled in issuing an rma for it and let the warranty run out but that's another story.
 
It sounds like the monitor. It probably isn't of the highest quality. I paid over $300 in 2008 for my monitor and it looks just as good as day 1.

You tend to get what you pay for. Your GPU is excellent! Do you know the make? (eVGA, MSI, Asus, Zotac etc.) MSI and eVGA make the best NVidia GPUs as for quality. Asus and Zotac are at the bottom.
 
Zotac makes the video card. It's just so odd to me, I can turn it off and back on and its fine. But if it's off for a long period of time, I have keep messing the power button.
 
What is the connection between the display and the video card - what kind of hardware port on the video card, what kind of cable, and what kind of hardware port on the display?

There is a known issue with displayport cables that are not compliant with industry standards causing your issue, and the solution is to block off pin 20 using tape. Are you using a displayport cable and/or port, or something else to physically connect the signal?
 
It is a DVI cable, the same one I've used for at least 2-3 years. If I plug in the cable to the video card, or the built in video card on the computer it does the same thing.
 
Ok the next step would be to isolate the monitor, so see if this problem lies within the monitor. For this, you'll need another video source like another computer or laptop or something you can plug the display into. You seem to have already sort of done this, if I understand correctly, because you have the same issue/behavior whether you connect to the discrete video card or the integrated video card?

I'm starting to suspect the display. You mention that you can try powering on the display and it takes a while to come back. So, maybe it's the backlight. There is also a known issue with some displays and the backlight capacitors going bad. This results in difficult issues getting the backlight to come on and stay on.

So if you don't have another computer or video source to try, you might also be able to look closely to see if the issue is specifically the backlight, where the graphics look fine, but the backlight just is having trouble.

If you think it's the backlight, you can unscrew the monitor housing, and visually inspect the capacitors. You'll be able to see the ones that are swollen or burst, like this:
cap_750.jpg

http://www.lcdparts.net/cap.aspx

I've replaced capacitors on an old Samsung LCD I bought for $10, and it works better than new (the replacement capacitors can be like $3 for a set, and they are higher performance/capacity so your backlight is more responsive).

Here is a nice walk-through:
http://510x.se/notes/posts/Repair_LCD_monitor_with_bad_capacitors/
 
It was the monitor. I picked up an Asus VN247H-P, and have not had the problem since. I'm really not sure what the difference is but I have it hooked up with a HDMI cable. What is the difference from DVI and HDMI?
 
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