Viewsonic VX922 19" Issues

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Hey guys,

I got this monitor back in 2006 and recently since playing Diablo 2 it struggles to switch resolutions, it sometimes hangs on a black screen and the monitor power button light goes off. You then can't turn it back on until you unplug it/replug it and sometimes the resolution sorts itself out and displays again.

Used to only happen when playing Diablo 2, but now happens if i load up any game.

Any way to fix it?

Is it maybe a GFX card problem or am i being dumb?
 
have you tried diablo in windowed mode, it actually looks better as the image isnt stretched.

Just add -w to the end of the game shortcut.
 
Yeah i started doing that, but im worried as it just goes black for other games such as WoW, can hear the music and everything, it just switches the monitor off when switching res.
 
I've had broken monitors which have done this for sure, but it's hard to be sure. Could try it with another PC or a laptop. Also try changing the windows resolution, try loads of different resolutions - if they all work then the monitor is probably ok.

edit:If you're saying one time you run a game and it works and then next for no reason it doesn't then assuming you've checked all connection I'd say it could be faulty. Still worth checking on another PC to rule out video card.
 
That is the first sign that your monitor is on it's way out. I also have a ViewSonic VX922. The next sign is if you try to change the resolution within Windows it will do this. Now, every time I boot into windows, it goes into its power save mode (power light flashes on and off, screen is black) - it just can't seem to resolve the resolution change.

Every time I need to reboot for what ever reason, I need to switch off the monitor, unplug it, reboot, wait 1 minute after I hear it has finished loading Windows, replug the power cable, switch back on. Even then, it often fails, and I have to repeat the process.

ViewSonic comes with a 3 year warranty. In my case I want to upgrade to a 24 inch monitor first before haivng to take my ViewSonic to be repaired, as I can't be without it (I bought mine May 2006).
 
AlfCheesey said:
That is the first sign that your monitor is on it's way out. I also have a ViewSonic VX922. The next sign is if you try to change the resolution within Windows it will do this. Now, every time I boot into windows, it goes into its power save mode (power light flashes on and off, screen is black) - it just can't seem to resolve the resolution change.

Every time I need to reboot for what ever reason, I need to switch off the monitor, unplug it, reboot, wait 1 minute after I hear it has finished loading Windows, replug the power cable, switch back on. Even then, it often fails, and I have to repeat the process.

ViewSonic comes with a 3 year warranty. In my case I want to upgrade to a 24 inch monitor first before haivng to take my ViewSonic to be repaired, as I can't be without it (I bought mine May 2006).
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From a bit of fiddling, i've found its linked to the monitor refresh rate, i've been reinstalling drivers and stuff recently, and when i do this it resets the monitor to 60hz, and a game such as WoW i have set at the 75hz option. When i loaded, the screen went black and it continued trying to change with no success and a black screen.

Diablo 2 runs in 800x600, and i think it resets the rate to 60hz too upon switching the res from native to 800x600. So i think that is the problem, 50% of the time it changes ok, the other 50% it refuses to display and you can just see the blackness of the monitor flickering where its stuck on refresh rate/resolution switching.

Bah...
 
TBH you should be using 60Hz anyway. LCDs don't flicker like CRTs used to at low refresh rates, plus even when you set them to 75 Hz they still run at 60 Hz internally and just interpolate the signal.

Does sound like the screen could be on it's way out though.
 
Ah right, thanks for that info fish, yeah if it plays up much more, im going to look for a widescreen monitor i think, join the 21st century :)
 
I'd use the warranty if it's still covered. I had a VX912 that wouldn't receive any signal over DVI and Viewsonic came to swap it out for a VX924. My experience of their customer service was pretty good.
 
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