Strange Things

fatlenny · 5 Jul 2019 at 09:26

Hello,

This has been doing my head in.

I have two pc's in my office to run my business and when my wife gets up from the desk the monitor goes black then comes back on as she walks towards it ?

Now its not a problem apart from I cant find a reason for the monitor to do this.

Can anyone shed some light on this ?

Thanks

hughtrimble · 5 Jul 2019 at 09:28

Does the monitor lose power or does it lose input?

MrRockliffe · 5 Jul 2019 at 09:43

Wrong forum mate

In all seriousness, some monitors have a feature that turns off the screen when you get up from it :-)

Which model is it?

james.miller · 5 Jul 2019 at 09:51

MrRockliffe said:
Wrong forum mate

In all seriousness, some monitors have a feature that turns off the screen when you get up from it

Which model is it?

This.

Or.. bad connection somewhere.

Or... that metal in her body is interfering with the monitor because shes a TERMINATOR. run. Now.

Probably not that last one though.

Baddass · 5 Jul 2019 at 11:07

sounds very much like a deliberate human motion sensor turned on. have a look in the OSD menu

fatlenny · 5 Jul 2019 at 12:56

Well its a Asus ROG Swift PG27VQ.
I looked in the OSD couldn't see any options for sensors ?
Ive got new cables from OC and the monitor is wall mounted.

fatlenny · 5 Jul 2019 at 12:59

james.miller said:
This.

Or.. bad connection somewhere.

Or... that metal in her body is interfering with the monitor because shes a TERMINATOR. run. Now.

Probably not that last one though.

Come to think of it

Im going to try a magnet on her later might be able to unlock a special mode LOL

Baddass · 5 Jul 2019 at 13:17

Can’t see anything in the user manual for the Pg27VQ, are you sure it’s that model? Only other suggestion is to make sure it’s running at native resolution and a supported resfresh rate. Maybe disable overclocking mode in the osd menu if that’s currently being used. Maybe try a different cable or connection type from pc to monitor

But if it only behaves like this when she leaves monitor alone, then comes back on when she’s back it sounds exactly like a human motion sensor feature!

james.miller · 5 Jul 2019 at 14:56

fatlenny said:
Come to think of it
Im going to try a magnet on her later might be able to unlock a special mode LOL

Or she'll go thermonuclear. Proceed with caution ...

ttaskmaster · 5 Jul 2019 at 15:28

aoaaron · 5 Jul 2019 at 15:44

I thought this was going to be a topic about the newest season of stranger things and you'd posted it in the wrong place.

Azrael1 · 5 Jul 2019 at 16:52

you sure its not because the mouse is waking the monitor on. So when she walks it the mouse moves slightly and wakes up the monitor via power settings

fatlenny · 5 Jul 2019 at 16:55

I recently upgraded the office setup. 2" core hole through the wall into the cupboard under the stairs and bought a new cable. Put the PCs under the stairs and got a button key ring thingy to boot them up. So its all new cables etc. I was just talking to the wife and she was sitting in front of the other monitor an ASUS PG348Q and it did the same thing !!!

Its not a problem I just don't know why its doing it. OH concrete floor as well

fatlenny · 9 Jul 2019 at 10:02

ok so I secretly filmed my wife to get the monito flicker. It doesn't do it every time I would say about 50 %.

https://youtu.be/m_AGTJyL8Hg

I don't understand.

ttaskmaster · 9 Jul 2019 at 10:54

Stuart Carcary · 9 Jul 2019 at 11:37

I had same problem with my ASUS PG279Q. Check this EEVBLOG video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-V_Z3bD_PA

I believe it is static discharge, check your earthing (don't ask me how!!!)

Stuart Carcary · 9 Jul 2019 at 11:50

I mean check the earthing on your wife, probably static from her shoes or clothing. I remember now disconnecting the USB hub from monitor to PC and mouse to monitor did the trick for me.

fatlenny · 9 Jul 2019 at 13:11

Stuart Carcary said:
I had same problem with my ASUS PG279Q. Check this EEVBLOG video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-V_Z3bD_PA

I believe it is static discharge, check your earthing (don't ask me how!!!)

I think that's it !!! I have a Herman Miller chair which is webbed and the wifes chair is from ikea and made of material.

Thanks

I will change chairs and respond after testing