Faulty Monitor or something i can fix?

Greenboi · 11 Mar 2007 at 18:38

Heya all, looking for some help before i lose it and send this monitor back!!

I got myself a BenQ FP91GX a few weeks back. All was going great until the last week or two when i started to notice some abnormality with the pixels (not just a few, a LOT of them)

during films, games, and general tasks on my computer, loads of random pixels flash red, and they flicker around manically, and its extremely irritating!

I have installed drivers, its not my graphics card as my old crt doesnt do this.

Is there anything i can do to solve this? If you need more info, let me know and ill give you it!

I hope i can fix it, dont want to have to send it off!

Thanks in advance

PhillyDee · 11 Mar 2007 at 18:49

Sounds like dodgy pixels to me. They might be sticking, then releasing before it means to. Any way of connecting it to another pc to double check?

Greenboi · 11 Mar 2007 at 18:53

have tried it, still does it.

it only seems to do it on darker colours (very dark blue, darker than the forum blue) and blacks, also does it on still images.

eggcup · 12 Mar 2007 at 00:18

Funny you should mention this its the same sort of thing happening on my viewsonic its been doing my nut for the past few weeks, i get white speckles all over the place , its very noticable when watching videomore than anything, im sure its my video drivers, as it was ok on xp before i upgraded to 7.2 cats, im on vista now, and same thing happens.

Whats your setup?

Greenboi · 12 Mar 2007 at 11:27

C2D E6300 @ 2.1
AsRock Dual-Vsta 775
nVidia 7800GS OC @ 470/1400
2gb crucial ballistix ram
Windows XP Home, latest drivers for everything
BenQ FP91GX Monitor.

Ive applied for RMA, and it will be getting collected on friday. Getting a direct replacement, so if it happens again, i will get a refund and get a new widescreen instead i think.