HELP!! Monitor is screwed!!!!!!

[DVD-Man]

I recently had to reboot & then while it was rebooting the monitor did it's "brr" noise; if you know what I mean (think it's the sound it would make if you turned it on at the power while still having the monitor power switch on)...anyways, on the screen reappearing it looked much "whiter" looking, seems that the brightness has gone way too far high or something, but i've fiddled with my brightness & can't fix it!

Then after a while screwing around the screen just went really black all of a sudden (shortly after a reboot)....But now the monitor is back to the whitish color again after rebooting etc...

I'v tried doing everything & I just can't fix it....even resetting my monitor

Also, I noticed that when I press the button to reset my monitor the screen is all black which is natural but, I can notice several lines going across the sreen sideways on an angle....if you look real close at the desktop you can also see them there too.

I tried taking screenshots of the screen at both whitish & black times but then when I looked at the screenshot on my bro's PC it looked normal...thats weird...why does it look normal? Something weird is going on!

I have a 17" Sony CPDE 220 (Flat) monitor.

Thanks for any help.

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Processor: Intel Pentium III (3) 866
Midi-Tower: AOpenATX Case w/300W Power Supply
Motherboard: Asus CUSL2-C
RAM: Hyundai/Legend 256MB PC-133 SDRAM
Hard Drive: 20 Gb Quantum Fireball AS 7200 RPM UATA 100
DVD/CD-ROM: Pioneer DVD-105S 16X DVD-ROM (Slot-Load)
Monitor: 17" Sony CPDE 220 (Flat)
Floppy: 1.44 Floppy Drive
Video Card: ATI RADEON 64MB DDR VIVO
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! DE 5.1
Creative Optical Digital I/O 2 Card
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Mouse: Ms Intellimouse Optical with intellieye
Speakers: Midiland S4 8200 5.1 Dolby Digital Speakers (Using ADS-3000 Decoder)
Modem: 512K ADSL
Microsoft Windows 98SE

[This message has been edited by DVD-Man (edited January 03, 2002).]

[fbs1992]

the same thing happened to my friends monitor. luckily for him its a server monitor, pretty much your monitor is screwed. I have the same monitor and i hope that doesnt happen to me

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Ma$e

[Oero]

Well I can give 'any' help. First, that "Brrr" sound is the monitor degaussing itself, which is normal. Degaussing neutralizes the magnetic field of the monitor. Some monitors have a button that allows you to manually do this, others do it on their own.

Second, a screenshot doesn't show others what you see on your screen verbatim, it shows them what the output is. Which is good actually, because it means your videocard is working fine.

Those lines you are talking about might be a part of the physical mask; are there 2 or three, or more? And are these horizontal or vertical lines? Sounds like your monitor is starting, er going dead

Oero

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I believe I clearly stated I don't think.

[DVD-Man]

My monitor is screwed??!! AARRGGHH!! I brought it about a year or more ago...what is wrong with it exactly? How did it happen just like that?

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Processor: Intel Pentium III (3) 866
Midi-Tower: AOpenATX Case w/300W Power Supply
Motherboard: Asus CUSL2-C
RAM: Hyundai/Legend 256MB PC-133 SDRAM
Hard Drive: 20 Gb Quantum Fireball AS 7200 RPM UATA 100
DVD/CD-ROM: Pioneer DVD-105S 16X DVD-ROM (Slot-Load)
Monitor: 17" Sony CPDE 220 (Flat)
Floppy: 1.44 Floppy Drive
Video Card: ATI RADEON 64MB DDR VIVO
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! DE 5.1
Creative Optical Digital I/O 2 Card
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Mouse: Ms Intellimouse Optical with intellieye
Speakers: Midiland S4 8200 5.1 Dolby Digital Speakers (Using ADS-3000 Decoder)
Modem: 512K ADSL
Microsoft Windows 98SE

[DVD-Man]

O ic oero...

Well, it has horizontal lines & they go from top to bottom of the screen so i guess there's about 7-8 of them.

Geez, I buy a Sony & it goes dead after a year? Hmmmmmm...

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Processor: Intel Pentium III (3) 866
Midi-Tower: AOpenATX Case w/300W Power Supply
Motherboard: Asus CUSL2-C
RAM: Hyundai/Legend 256MB PC-133 SDRAM
Hard Drive: 20 Gb Quantum Fireball AS 7200 RPM UATA 100
DVD/CD-ROM: Pioneer DVD-105S 16X DVD-ROM (Slot-Load)
Monitor: 17" Sony CPDE 220 (Flat)
Floppy: 1.44 Floppy Drive
Video Card: ATI RADEON 64MB DDR VIVO
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! DE 5.1
Creative Optical Digital I/O 2 Card
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Mouse: Ms Intellimouse Optical with intellieye
Speakers: Midiland S4 8200 5.1 Dolby Digital Speakers (Using ADS-3000 Decoder)
Modem: 512K ADSL
Microsoft Windows 98SE

[fbs1992]

that has to be a faulty product ive had mine for about a year and 3 months and its fine

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Ma$e

[DVD-Man]

I've been too lazy to send in the warranty, but is that still ok?

Hummm......no I gotta find my receipt from where I brought it

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Processor: Intel Pentium III (3) 866
Midi-Tower: AOpenATX Case w/300W Power Supply
Motherboard: Asus CUSL2-C
RAM: Hyundai/Legend 256MB PC-133 SDRAM
Hard Drive: 20 Gb Quantum Fireball AS 7200 RPM UATA 100
DVD/CD-ROM: Pioneer DVD-105S 16X DVD-ROM (Slot-Load)
Monitor: 17" Sony CPDE 220 (Flat)
Floppy: 1.44 Floppy Drive
Video Card: ATI RADEON 64MB DDR VIVO
Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! DE 5.1
Creative Optical Digital I/O 2 Card
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro
Mouse: Ms Intellimouse Optical with intellieye
Speakers: Midiland S4 8200 5.1 Dolby Digital Speakers (Using ADS-3000 Decoder)
Modem: 512K ADSL
Microsoft Windows 98SE

[Oero]

I just remembered something. Here at work they were throwing out a bunch of Sony 15" monitors. We, being the scrounging kind of under-funded department we are, intercepted their trip to the dumpster. Two years of being left on 24/7 had done their toll to the poor things, and even and max brightness it was still too dim for general use.

So we took them apart and played with an adjustment. If we overdrove the thing it showed several lines running down at an angle from the left to the right, at about a 30 degree angle. So we increased brightness/contrast to max, cranked it till those lines were barely visible, then hot glued the knob in that position. And wala, hit reset and the picture was perfect.

Now in your case the fault appeared suddenly, so I'd imagine something bad happened, like a component frying. But if you are handy with a screwdriver and the picture is steady at that brightness you could give it a go and buy some time perhaps. However a TV's flyback transformer is at very high voltages, so you may not want to do that. Up to you, easy if you don't shock yourself.

Oero

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I believe I clearly stated I don't think.