Viewsonic Video Image Extremely Faint

[zanegrey]

All,

I have a ViewSonic VE710b with some issues. When booting or changing resolutions, the video display will show a good display for a split second and then immediately go dark. When I looked really close, I realized the image was still there, it was just very very faint. Too faint to operate without burning out my eyeballs. If I power it off and turn it on, again, it flashes a good display and then goes very very faint.

What I've done as far as troubleshooting:
1) Fiddled with the brightness setting but it has no effect.
2) Hooked it up to my laptop and sent video to both the laptop screen and monitor. Same results as above.
3) Powered the monitor off for 12 hours. Powered back on, same results.
4) Unhooked monitor from computer video card. Powered on. Noticed that even the little "No Signal" box that appears before going into power save mode was very very faint.

So my diagnosis is that the cables are fine and it's not the video card. It has to be something going on with the monitor and I'm hoping there is an expert out there that can tell me definitively that the thing is toast or exactly what I need to do in order to repair it. I just received the monitor second hand and it worked for about 12 hours before this behavior started. I'd sure like to get it working.

Thanks for any help that can be provided!
Chris

 

[electronicsfreak]

Im 98 percent sure your monitor is bad, just to be sure hook up a spare monitor to the computer like either at a friends house or if you have one laying around. If the other one lights up just fine, chunk the monitor and get a new one.

 

[zanegrey]

Should have added Step 5. I did that. I'm using the old big honker that I used to have hooked up and it's working fine. I was sure hoping this was something common that I could open up and fix quick. I guess not.

Thanks again!

 

[electronicsfreak]

n/p, nah usually its cheaper to buy new monitors than it is to fix them.