Hey there,
after long years of being able to successfully troubleshoot most problems myself, I´ve hit a dead end with this one:
Recently my secondary monitor stopped working in a weird way:
After turning it on, it would show an image for about a second and then immediately turned black.
Turning it on and off again (yes...) made it come back and turn off after a second again. Before that happend I started to get some interference issues, with small vertical noise lines, that went away with a little jiggling on the cable, so my first guess was a broken cable
Here is my troubleshooting procedure so far:
After none of that worked, I got a cheap used replacement monitor and guess what...same problem.
So now I´m a bit stumped...Did I get that unlucky and the replacement has the exact same issue, which I have never encountered before?
Or is there still some stupid hidden setting I accidentally activated?
Or is it a cable problem? The main monitor has a DVI-D Dual Link cable, the replacement monitor uses a DVI-D Single Link cable (With which the old monitor used to work).
If I plug in the DVI-D Single Link cable into my primary monitor, I get a display error (noisy lines).
I also tried accessing the OSD of the monitor, but wether the DVI cable is plugged in or not, I can´t access the OSD Settings, since the display also turns black after a second.
Which makes it seem like its more likely a hardware issue (unless I don´t understand how monitors work and it won´t show OSD controls, when there is no signal coming in).
I´ve read something about broken Backlights, but those posts said there should be a faint image visible, when you light a strong light at the screen, which is not the case here.
I also get a short glimpse at an error message from the monitor before it turns off, saying something about "out of range", but like I said, booting in safe mode didn´t fix it and the settings are already at 60hz.
I can´t test the replacement monitor on a different computer for at least another week or so and I don´t wanna buy another one without ruling out other possible issues (software or hardware related), so any help would be appreciated.
My specs:
Nvidia Geforce 760 GTX
Windows 10
LG Flatron W2346T
after long years of being able to successfully troubleshoot most problems myself, I´ve hit a dead end with this one:
Recently my secondary monitor stopped working in a weird way:
After turning it on, it would show an image for about a second and then immediately turned black.
Turning it on and off again (yes...) made it come back and turn off after a second again. Before that happend I started to get some interference issues, with small vertical noise lines, that went away with a little jiggling on the cable, so my first guess was a broken cable
Here is my troubleshooting procedure so far:
- Switched cables from my good monitor to my bad monitor.
- Bought new cable.
- Updated Nvidia Driver.
- Booted in safe mode.
- Checked power settings.
After none of that worked, I got a cheap used replacement monitor and guess what...same problem.
So now I´m a bit stumped...Did I get that unlucky and the replacement has the exact same issue, which I have never encountered before?
Or is there still some stupid hidden setting I accidentally activated?
Or is it a cable problem? The main monitor has a DVI-D Dual Link cable, the replacement monitor uses a DVI-D Single Link cable (With which the old monitor used to work).
If I plug in the DVI-D Single Link cable into my primary monitor, I get a display error (noisy lines).
I also tried accessing the OSD of the monitor, but wether the DVI cable is plugged in or not, I can´t access the OSD Settings, since the display also turns black after a second.
Which makes it seem like its more likely a hardware issue (unless I don´t understand how monitors work and it won´t show OSD controls, when there is no signal coming in).
I´ve read something about broken Backlights, but those posts said there should be a faint image visible, when you light a strong light at the screen, which is not the case here.
I also get a short glimpse at an error message from the monitor before it turns off, saying something about "out of range", but like I said, booting in safe mode didn´t fix it and the settings are already at 60hz.
I can´t test the replacement monitor on a different computer for at least another week or so and I don´t wanna buy another one without ruling out other possible issues (software or hardware related), so any help would be appreciated.
My specs:
Nvidia Geforce 760 GTX
Windows 10
LG Flatron W2346T