Monitor Problems...

[Sinister Spanky]

Hi,

I bout a REALsync - PF77-BK 17" CRT Flat monitor on Christmas Eve 05 and it has served me well so far.

However... somtimes when I leave for school and come back my monitor display looks as if the contrast was turned up, it has that whitish tint washed out color lookto it, I rebooted my pc I didn't check to see if turning it back on and off fixes it, but I now know restarting my PC does, I don't know what triggers this problem either.

I called my hardware vendor of whome I got my monitor from, and they said that doesn't sound like a Monitor Issue sounds more like a profile setting in my video card.

I have my monitor set to turn off after 10 minutes of inactivity, I don't use screensavers, so its usualy off when i'm gone... anyays I just came here for a second opinion any suggstions?

[EXreaction]

No idea on the problem...but when you leave for school, you should just turn your monitor off...

[Sinister Spanky]

That would probly fix it, but i'm not one to half way fix the problem knowing that the issue is still their will drive me nuts, I want to get to the bottom of the issue and see if its in my power to fix it.

[mjolnir1134]

Maybe someone is messing with you, you know, probably adjusting your monitor while you're gone.

[Sinister Spanky]

Nope, I know for a fact noone is... I have no siblings noone goes in my room I have a key to it I lock it when I leave, if that was the issue i'd know.

[johnnyis42]

a few possibilities, but the one that comes to mind immediately is power management. you might want to turn off the screen saver and monitor shutdown timer in windows and experiment by leaving it on all day, see if it looks the same when you get home as a little experiment.

[Shadows4529]

I think my monitor is doing the same I have a Spectrum 7Glr A

and its really hard to keep the contrast the same and sometimes i can see faint lines I dont know what is wrong

[Sinister Spanky]

a few possibilities, but the one that comes to mind immediately is power management. you might want to turn off the screen saver and monitor shutdown timer in windows and experiment by leaving it on all day, see if it looks the same when you get home as a little experiment.

Alright I will do that, sounds good because I don't know what triggers this issue but that sounds like a good way to test, if I do leave it on all day and it does that what would thnat mean?

[johnnyis42]

well, i made the suggestion based on the assumption that the sync signal sent to power down the display when windows power management deemed it time to shut down was somehow doing the wierd contrast thing to the monitor, or on the other end, when you brought the monitor back to life the initial "wake up" signal to the monitor caused it. either way, i am proposing that being the problem.

if it's not the problem, it could be something within the monitor itself, signal from the video card (unlikely), or with a power connection in the monitor (backlight). i say the video card is unlikely because if it was causing this, the way the video card controlls contrast and brightness would indicate a driver problem and you would likely be having more than just this problem. that would be the "profile" problem the tech was refering to.

if it was a profile setitng on the video card..... let me ask you this: do you ever mess with the profiles on your video card? if not, do you have the latest drivers? and is this connection DVI?

one last thing that is a bit of a long shot is to go to windows update and check to see if there is a monitor update in the "drivers" section when you do a "custom" scan of your pc. if this is a DVI connection there might be somehting unique about this monitor and how windows handles the DVI signal... like i said, longshot.

[Sinister Spanky]

Ok, thanks for your wisdom sir

BTW - I'm on a DVI to VGA Adpater both of my video cards connectos are DVI

[Sinister Spanky]

UPDATE !

I have left my monitor on ALLNIGHT with the power managment turned off aswell as screensaver and picture was still normal in the morning.

[johnnyis42]

sounds like the way power management shuts down the monitor then brings it back is causing the issue. maybe just leave it that way, and when you leave the house just turn the monitor off yourself.

[Sinister Spanky]

so either way does this sound like a bad monitor or just somthing i'll have to live with?

[johnnyis42]

it sounds like a driver issue, either the video drivers or the way windows sees the monitor. difficult to nail it down because of the layers of abstraction.... but you can always keep a close eye every time a driver update is released, see if anything changes.

never bothered asking... do you use the auto-adjust features on the monitor?