monitor problems

[Toph]

Hi everyone, I'm having problems with my monitor and wondered if any of you techies out there have any idea what's wrong.

It's a 22" LG flatscreen monitor, it works fine for about 20 mins but then it turns itself off ,then back on again almost immediately, after a minute or so it does the same again,
the longer you are using it , the more often the problem occurs. after an hour or so of use, it turns off then on every 30 seconds or so. :'(
I've started using my spare but it's much smaller
Just wondered if it's repairable or in the bin! ;D

[nick1987]

somewhere in the monitor's menu it should have a 'power save' or 'sleep' function, turning that off may help

[Robf]

http://www.fixya.com/support/lg/monitors


try using this troubleshooting, as i don't know which monitor you have exactly. it should be repairable, although depending on the problem it may be cheaper to buy another.

[njl]

i think they have little flourescent type lamps for providing the backlighting, I have a screen at work that will only show for under a minute before the screen going blank. Don't know if anyone can replace them or not though, i've resigned myself to replace this one

[BB]

Sounds like something overheating/cycling :-/

BB

[Jon_W]

Sounds like something overheating/cycling :-/

BB

That was my immediate reaction.

[Col]

This may make no sense but reverse change the cable from pooter to screen.. it has worked on similar prob :-? and .like been mentioned, check out the options menu just to make sure it is set ok. Other than that a repair may not be cost effective as a new one will be about £120.

[Kevinb]

You could try Altek. Take it over there and they should be able to give you a price to look at it.


http://www.altek-computers.co.uk/index.html