Viewsonic VX2025WM flickering pixels - advice please

Monkey Puzzle · 28 Aug 2006 at 22:32

Hi,

Got back from Reading today to discover more than my liver was damaged - my viewsonic vx2025wm seems to have developed about 100 pixels scattered around the screen that keep flickering from the colour they're supposed to be to a light green briefly about every few seconds. Can I correct this with some loving massage techniques or is it likely to be more serious than that? If it is, is it possible to send it back to Viewsonic or do they need to be stuck on or off?

V For Vendetta · 29 Aug 2006 at 07:43

Monkey Puzzle said:
Hi,

Got back from Reading today to discover more than my liver was damaged - my viewsonic vx2025wm seems to have developed about 100 pixels scattered around the screen that keep flickering from the colour they're supposed to be to a light green briefly about every few seconds. Can I correct this with some loving massage techniques or is it likely to be more serious than that? If it is, is it possible to send it back to Viewsonic or do they need to be stuck on or off?

thats a connection issue try reconnecting the dvi, and wiggle it abit.
if it doesnt fix it you have either an iffy cable or an iffy connection either on the lcd or on the gfx card

edit.

another issue could be bandwidth, try lowering your resolution down, if the specals disapear your DVI cable cant handle the bandwidth at the said resolution and you might need to get a quality one.

Baddass · 29 Aug 2006 at 18:51

make sure you're running at 1680 x 1050 and at 60Hz refresh rate. Check cables and try VGA and DVI. Maybe update your graphics card drivers or try the monitor on another PC too. Hopefully just something wrong in that lot

Monkey Puzzle · 30 Aug 2006 at 16:46

Well I tried taking out the DVI and replugging it a few times and now nothing comes through so I switched to using VGA and the image seems fine. Will have to wait a bit before I get another DVI cable to test where the problem lies - hopefully just the cable...

Monkey Puzzle · 30 Aug 2006 at 16:47

oh, and it's at 1680x1050 and 60MHz already.

V For Vendetta · 30 Aug 2006 at 18:23

if you get a new cable try gettting a dual link quality cable its future proof as it has higher bandwidth

Baddass · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:04

good to hear you've had some success. So could be either the cable of your DVI output on the GFX card. Can you test it on another DVI enabled card/machine?