Hi folks, trying to help a friend out.
He just bought an ASUS VG248QE 24" 144 hz monitor primarily for CS:GO gaming. The monitor was bought off Amazon and came in early February. He's been using it perfectly until last night.
He was playing 16:9 resolution until yesterday when he figured he'd try out 4:3 1280 x 1024 with black bars in CS:GO. From the moment he changed in-game resolution, his monitor flickered (a lot of older monitors do this when you set resolution to non-native) but it came back and he was
able to play on the resolution fine until he went to sleep (albeit he said it flickered every time he would alt-tab and have to go back to native desktop). Today, he came home from work, and said his monitor would turn on but was just a black screen. Nothing, nada.
The reason I came here is to ask: is this normal for a monitor to just ... die because it was forced into non-native resolutions? It isn't his computer as it boots fine into another monitor. We both just found it really odd that a brand new monitor (~2 months old) would just go kapoot like this.
He just bought an ASUS VG248QE 24" 144 hz monitor primarily for CS:GO gaming. The monitor was bought off Amazon and came in early February. He's been using it perfectly until last night.
He was playing 16:9 resolution until yesterday when he figured he'd try out 4:3 1280 x 1024 with black bars in CS:GO. From the moment he changed in-game resolution, his monitor flickered (a lot of older monitors do this when you set resolution to non-native) but it came back and he was
able to play on the resolution fine until he went to sleep (albeit he said it flickered every time he would alt-tab and have to go back to native desktop). Today, he came home from work, and said his monitor would turn on but was just a black screen. Nothing, nada.
The reason I came here is to ask: is this normal for a monitor to just ... die because it was forced into non-native resolutions? It isn't his computer as it boots fine into another monitor. We both just found it really odd that a brand new monitor (~2 months old) would just go kapoot like this.