Viewsonic VX724, no display

There are no words to describe how angry and depressed I am right now so I am going to make this as short and simple as possible.

My monitor is plugged in, the power light is green. When I plug the monitor into the DVI port, there is no signal at all. When I plug the monitor into the VGA port, it detects a signal and shows the display for half a second. Then it shuts off, re-detects the display, shows it for a brief second, and then shuts off again. This basically keeps repeating.

As for how the problem started, I was just typing my speech when all of the sudden, the monitor went blank and never came back.

I've tried a different monitor on my computer and it works fine. It is not a problem with my computer.

I have checked the viewsonic website and it's support site is HOPELESSLY useless. I can't even find a link to contact a real person or how to handle warranty services.

Can anyone give me a little insight before I throw my monitor out of the window of my apartment? Thanks.

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Spike

Well....it seems that Viewsonic's support has been outsourced to India and the only online help is a questionnaire that doesn't accomplish anything. Needless to say, Viewsonic will be another company that I will be avoiding due to their support being outsourced.

Does anyone know how good the samsung monitors are?

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Spike

I love my samsung, my mom has one and my brother in law uses one as well. A few friends have them and I've never heard anyone having trouble with them except myself.

My own problem was just a little driver issue ... windows kept reinstalling the default monitor driver instead. It eventually was worked out though.

Sorry I have no idea about the viewsonic!

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Many Samsung monitors appear to be hit or miss lately, based on what I've read; the ones actually manufactured by Samsung are all right, but there are a number that were actually manufactured by another company, which are utter garbage.

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Hmm, well I ended up buying a 19" widescreen Samsung 906BW. Loving it so far. The contrast and clarity is beautiful.

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Spike

Any backlight bleeding?

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What do you mean by back light bleeding?

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Spike

Typically backlight bleeding shows up when the image or video onscreen is dark or black, in the form of white "bleed-through," usually on the edges of the screen.

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Ohhh I see. I just did a quick check and its hardly noticeable. Only if you really look for it. Its beautiful. I am going to run halo 2 on it to see how well it handles games.

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It handles games very nicely but with the larger resolution, I can really feel the bottle neck that my Athlon 3200+ is creating for the x850pro. I've got a socket 754 motherboard so there's no real hope of doing a simple CPU swap either. Time for a new system....gotta do my research now haha. I have no idea what is in the market right now and what is good. I'm currently looking at the abit fatality motherboard and the AMD 6000+ AM2 as well as the X1950pro.

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Spike

I heartily recommend the X1950 Pro. IMHO it's the absolute best non-DX10 card available, and at a great price.

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