Dell Monitors

[sidewinder]

Probably quite a simple one.

 

Some of our Dell screens go into standby as they should. Others come up with 'self test feature check' bouncing around the screen. Not only is this annoying, it wastes power because the screen never goes into standby.

Mine didnt use to do it, but since I changed some monitor settings yesterday it does. Cant see an option to disable this 'feature'

[ron]

Sounds like this is related to same issue i'm having: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/47919-power-save-mode.html .....Is this the same for you? The only way I can currently resolve this isssue is to reseat the RAM Edited January 15, 2010 by ron

[sidewinder]

ron - its strictly a monitor problem, not the PC

 

sysman - yeah thats what it is, but how is it set to auto select? im sure ive changed the inputs before but unless im being thick i cant find it now - theres nothing about it in the OSD

[ron]

Sidewinder - If it's a monitor problem why does it only work if I reseat the RAM?

 

If it is a monitor problem only I'd love to know how to fix this!

[pwds]

I had this with Dell monitors at my last school. Simply resetting the monitor to defaults using the OSD resolved it.

[sidewinder]

Sidewinder - If it's a monitor problem why does it only work if I reseat the RAM?

 

If it is a monitor problem only I'd love to know how to fix this!

 

lol, i meant mine was definately a monitor problem. Yours on the other hand does indeed sound like a PC one!

[ron]

lol, i meant mine was definately a monitor problem. Yours on the other hand does indeed sound like a PC one!

 

Lol! Sorry.

 

Next time I have the issue I'll try with the monitor first. No one has replied to my thread about this issue and when I saw your this thread I thought "yeah solution!"