Strange thing happened...

[Rudy Toody]

A couple of months ago I bought a new monitor. This morning when I switched it on, I got a message to check the video cable. The cable was dead! Two months old and dead from sitting overnight.😵

Has anyone every heard of this?

Am I going to have to slaughter some chickens on my desktop?

 

[HutchinsonJC]

Was it a Samsung?

 

[petrusbroder]

I assume the monitor - and not the video cable - was dead ...
You could slaughter some chickens on the desktop - but how would you get them onto the Win desktop? Scanning?

OTOH: yes, I have had this happen to one of our monitors (Asus) after approx 6 months of use. It turned out to be a contact problem - and I got a new one on warrenty.

 

[Rudy Toody]

No. No. No. The cable is dead! The monitor is fine.

 

[Uppsala9496]

I've never had it happen with a video cable, but I have had that happen with a psu cable. Don't know what made me try a new one, but that solved the problem. PSU has been running fine the last 4 years.

 

[dajeepster]

No. No. No. The cable is dead! The monitor is fine.

I've had that happen to me once, about 8 years ago... just chucked it and got another cable... i have so many lying around... they aren't breeding though.

mine was just a vga cable... sealed ends, so it wasn't worth fixing... plus if i did fix it, i'd have a dandy time explaining the monstrosity connected to my monitor. 😵

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wierd, never heard of a video card failing overnight. Thermal expansion/contraction?

 

[PCTC2]

I've had my fair share of bad monitor cables that show their signs now and then. It could work for me for a few weeks and then die, and then not support the correct resolutions or have lines across the screen if it's VGA.

Now here's a strange phenomenon: I have a new Mac Mini 2011, quad core server edition. I used to have 8 GB of RAM installed while driving a 27" 2560x1440 monitor and a 1920x1200 22" monitor. After upgrading to 16GB of RAM, the 2560x1440 monitor (hooked up via DisplayPort) flickers. Now, I've tried 3 different cables and I can't figure out what is wrong with it...