Ok heres the prob, and I'd love to see if you lot can solve it 
Basically I have a broken monitor. I dont have the money or the packaging to RMA it so its dead. BUT let me explain the problem:
The power button will flick on and off and just continue doing that despite the signal, but if left to its own devices and plugged in to a signal source (computer) after a random time (2h up to 14h) it will start working and switch on. Sounds great right? Cept turning off my computer at night is essential as I cant sleep with the noise. So every morning I have to switch on the screen and hope to god it works in a sensible amount of time.
Atm its just a second screen so not essential to computer use, but you dont half miss a second screen when you lose one! I get so bored not =being able to game and watch tv at the same time lol.
Ok so to the conundrum. Once the screen switches on, it works 100% fine without a bother. I need to switch off the pc at night. The monitors control panel timeout options only go up to a few mins before it switches itself off so I cant use that.
What I REALLY need and hope for is that someone will know a way to trick a monitor to thinking its receiving a signal. Hopefully by something simple like crossing a couple of pins on the vga connectors or something similar.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Basically I have a broken monitor. I dont have the money or the packaging to RMA it so its dead. BUT let me explain the problem:
The power button will flick on and off and just continue doing that despite the signal, but if left to its own devices and plugged in to a signal source (computer) after a random time (2h up to 14h) it will start working and switch on. Sounds great right? Cept turning off my computer at night is essential as I cant sleep with the noise. So every morning I have to switch on the screen and hope to god it works in a sensible amount of time.
Atm its just a second screen so not essential to computer use, but you dont half miss a second screen when you lose one! I get so bored not =being able to game and watch tv at the same time lol.
Ok so to the conundrum. Once the screen switches on, it works 100% fine without a bother. I need to switch off the pc at night. The monitors control panel timeout options only go up to a few mins before it switches itself off so I cant use that.
What I REALLY need and hope for is that someone will know a way to trick a monitor to thinking its receiving a signal. Hopefully by something simple like crossing a couple of pins on the vga connectors or something similar.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
