LCD trouble

[enticer86]

Help! My new samsung lcd monitor has started giving me troubles already.
As u can see in the attached pic, there r some THICK LINES on display. They r kind of hardware trouble. With no option left coz i had to sent an urgent mail, i slapped the monitor at the bak a few times....... n the display is fine at the moment.

What shud be the trouble and what shud i do??

[aneesh kalra]

Maybe you have got a lotta dead pixels on your lcd.The monitor should be replaced if it is under warranty.

[assasin]

@enticer86 update display drivers,check the monitor on another pc.

[enticer86]

c if it had been dead lcds then it wont hav worked again...
n display drivers too- if they had been the issue then how come slapping the monitor worked?

[assasin]

if slapping the monitor worked then try a diff connecting cable or use a diff connector if u hav 2(dvi & d-sub).

[enticer86]

wich cable shud i change? theres one power supply cable n the other connects the the monitor
N yeah i tried to dc the pc - my monitor was on so it showed sm msg .."no signal detected" or smthin.. but the stipes were STIL there

[assasin]

change the cable that connects ur pc with ur monitor

[enticer86]

i told u... no use... coz even after disconnecting it my monitor works and shows the stripes

monitor works bole to it has sm inbuilt error messages n displays them

[sashijoseph]

Boss rush to the nearest service centre.Seems to be some internal power supply problem.

[enticer86]

seems to me too
where r the senior members here?

[Pathik]

Only option - Service center

[enticer86]

ohkie.. thnks bro fr the advice

[entrana]

call customer care im sure the lcd is defective something similar happened to me

[enticer86]

i got it from a relativ types- no box n all- cheap rates

[entrana]

o so i guess ur screwed

[enticer86]

no exactly.. i wil giv it bak to him.
he wil b obliged





*hopefully*

[entrana]

then where will u get ur new screen? i guess ull have to buy it

[enticer86]

i wil exchange with a properly workin thingy
not an issue

[janitha]

Originally Posted by enticer86

i wil exchange with a properly workin thingy
not an issue

If it was so easy, you could have done so in the first place!

[ranjan2001]

Thats how an LCD starts its end of the life cycle, my friend laptop developed the same bands 1......then 2.........3 then it was covering half the screen.......................I saw it happening over 1 month time & then it had to be replaced.

[enticer86]

Originally Posted by janitha

If it was so easy, you could have done so in the first place!

his workshop is pretty far n thts y i wantd to ask if there was smthin i cud do myself.

anywys- interesting place- his office i mean... at any point of time there are atleast a 1000 computers in various depts- the mouse dept, the keyboard area, the ram area

[janitha]

Originally Posted by ranjan2001

Thats how an LCD starts its end of the life cycle, my friend laptop developed the same bands 1......then 2.........3 then it was covering half the screen.......................I saw it happening over 1 month time & then it had to be replaced.

So it seems that unlike CRT we can use a LCD for a maximum period of 3 years. (warranty period) I had to get mine replaced twice within less than one year. First time problem with brightness and buttons not working and second time monitor switching itself off!

[ranjan2001]

Originally Posted by janitha

So it seems that unlike CRT we can use a LCD for a maximum period of 3 years. (warranty period) I had to get mine replaced twice within less than one year. First time problem with brightness and buttons not working and second time monitor switching itself off!

Mostly yes but thats true even with CRT the life is 3yrs after that it looses or start loosing its brightness, sharpness & RGB channels start over lapping affecting the eyes badly.

Cheaper LCD wont last even 3yrs but for sure LCD have a life & within 3yrs u may upgrade to a better & bigger screen.

[enticer86]

just thinkin- lcd mein to its lik liquid crystals... but in CRT monitors there are pixels/... so when they hav to display black color, are they switched off?

[praka123]

Originally Posted by ranjan2001

Mostly yes but thats true even with CRT the life is 3yrs after that it looses or start loosing its brightness, sharpness & RGB channels start over lapping affecting the eyes badly.

Cheaper LCD wont last even 3yrs but for sure LCD have a life & within 3yrs u may upgrade to a better & bigger screen.

so an LCD(TFT) life good only < 3 yrs

[ranjan2001]

Yes.......................didn't you know that??? It will start loosing its brigtness by that time.

Your eyes are more precious, so u may not want to use it more than 3 yrs, our eyes adapt to any conditions & we don't see faults in our monitors until we compare it with a new monitor next to each other. MY 4yr samsung monitor is still running & till this jan07 I was using it quite well but its crap when I compare it with any new CRT monitor..........& when I compare it with my 20inch LCD then I wonder why the hell I was using all these 4 years.

There use to be some expensive Barco CRT monitors costing in those days 2.5 lakh upwards which had a life of 7 years, they were meant to be color accurate & very stable throughout their life cycle.