bad dvi input on dell monitor?
Is it possible for a dvi input on a monitor to go bad?
I have a 13 month old Dell E228WFP - it was hooked up via dvi to an ATI Radeon card that I had put in my Inspiron 530 - I had another older Dell monitor hooked up to the card via vga, giving me a dual monitor setup (the card has 1 dvi and 1 vga connector)
several months ago the E228WFP started putting itself in standby mode, and the only way out of it was to reboot - it happened seldom enough that I just lived with it - now today it started going black, while the power light stayed green - so I turned the monitor off then back on and the screen came on for about 2 seconds, then went black again - so I disconnected both cables from the video card and hooked just the 228 monitor up to the onboard video via vga, and it was fine
at first I thought that meant the card was bad - but then I tried something else - I hooked both monitors back up to the card, but switched them - I hooked up the 228 via vga (previously it was hooked up via dvi), and the other monitor via dvi (previously vga) - and so far so good
so it's looking like maybe the dvi input connector on the E228WFP monitor may be bad? does that sound plausible? does this sort of thing happen?
I figured if it was the dvi on the card gone bad, monitor #2, now hooked up via dvi, would be experiencing the same thing that the 228 had been experiencing, but so far it's not.
I have a 13 month old Dell E228WFP - it was hooked up via dvi to an ATI Radeon card that I had put in my Inspiron 530 - I had another older Dell monitor hooked up to the card via vga, giving me a dual monitor setup (the card has 1 dvi and 1 vga connector)
several months ago the E228WFP started putting itself in standby mode, and the only way out of it was to reboot - it happened seldom enough that I just lived with it - now today it started going black, while the power light stayed green - so I turned the monitor off then back on and the screen came on for about 2 seconds, then went black again - so I disconnected both cables from the video card and hooked just the 228 monitor up to the onboard video via vga, and it was fine
at first I thought that meant the card was bad - but then I tried something else - I hooked both monitors back up to the card, but switched them - I hooked up the 228 via vga (previously it was hooked up via dvi), and the other monitor via dvi (previously vga) - and so far so good
so it's looking like maybe the dvi input connector on the E228WFP monitor may be bad? does that sound plausible? does this sort of thing happen?
I figured if it was the dvi on the card gone bad, monitor #2, now hooked up via dvi, would be experiencing the same thing that the 228 had been experiencing, but so far it's not.