I got in on the 2005FPW deal past week and I got it on the 20th. Just this morning, while I was reading up on some websites, the screen goes blank. Turned the monitor off, turned it back on, still nothing. The system is running fine, the music was still playing and it shut off properly (i can hear the shutdown sound) when i pressed the power button on my case.
Rebooting didn't help. I can hear the system POST, but the screen is completely black. The indicator lights are green when system is powered, yellow when system is not powered (as it should be.) The only problem is that there is no display at all. No error messages, no OSD when I press the menu buttons, nothing. I bring my heavy arse CRT back into my room and it displays with no problem.
I bring the 2005FPW to my roomies' computers, all the same result, all 3 other computers. Just black screen, no image at all.
So I'm on hold with Dell support. I'm pissed. It was perfect. No backlight problem, not a single dead pixel, but it just DIES. What gives?
Anybody know what could have caused this? My monitor was a Revision A01 from May 2005.
The only thing that I can think of that might have done this might be the fact that I switch between a full game screen and desktop frequently throughout the day. But the resolution and refresh rate is the same. I play WoW on 1680x1050 and I usually ALT+TAB out of the game frequently in order to talk on AIM and stuff. (Other than that, I cant think of anything else.)
Rebooting didn't help. I can hear the system POST, but the screen is completely black. The indicator lights are green when system is powered, yellow when system is not powered (as it should be.) The only problem is that there is no display at all. No error messages, no OSD when I press the menu buttons, nothing. I bring my heavy arse CRT back into my room and it displays with no problem.
I bring the 2005FPW to my roomies' computers, all the same result, all 3 other computers. Just black screen, no image at all.
So I'm on hold with Dell support. I'm pissed. It was perfect. No backlight problem, not a single dead pixel, but it just DIES. What gives?
Anybody know what could have caused this? My monitor was a Revision A01 from May 2005.
The only thing that I can think of that might have done this might be the fact that I switch between a full game screen and desktop frequently throughout the day. But the resolution and refresh rate is the same. I play WoW on 1680x1050 and I usually ALT+TAB out of the game frequently in order to talk on AIM and stuff. (Other than that, I cant think of anything else.)