I am seeing flashing red dots whenever something is dark black on the screen. :(
Anyone experienced this before?
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I am seeing flashing red dots whenever something is dark black on the screen. :(
Anyone experienced this before?
After resetting monitor (at the plug) is is fine :D
Remember silly SiM, act before you post!!!
Stupid Dell 2407-HC. On a side note it has terrible video tearing. Is that grounds for an RMA to Dell? Will they send me a 2408 instead?
im presuming that your monitor has been on for hours on end.....
turn it off and let it cool down. it should sort it out :thumbsup:
I guess you didn't read the second post... :angst:Quote:
Originally Posted by TAKTAK
I fixed it already... and the monitor just went on 10 minutes ago :)
Edit: or are you talking about the tearing?
yeah, i was talking about the tearing.
cos that was happening to me a while ago and i just turned me monitor of for about 10mins and it fixed it.
So the monitor would need a break in the middle of a movie... that's a reason to RMA imo... I don't want to rma too early cos I don't want a 2407 refurb as a replacement :pQuote:
Originally Posted by TAKTAK
Stop taking drugs :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SiM
It started happening again... :(
But its ok after I turn monitor off & on at plug... odd, I\'ll contact dell next week
Have you got vsync turned on? is the tearing horizotal or verticalQuote:
Originally Posted by SiM
Tearing? If you're talking about what I think you are it's a graphics card issue. Make sure your refresh rate is set to one your monitor supports and enable V-Sync where applicable.
I agree it could be a gfx issue. Does it only tear during video playback, what about games?Quote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
you can't use vsync when watching video :)
It happens a little in games too (hardly noticeable), but I usually don't use vsync as my pc can't get a minimum of over 60fps in any game...
The tearing is apparent when the camera or something/one moves horizontally across the screen...
I don't think its a graphics card issue as it used to tear with my HD 2600 pro too...
I suppose it does sound like a monitor issue, just to play it safe you could test it on another monitor if you have another.
If not then you still might as well RMA it.
Don't have another monitor at the moment. Will test another monitor next week. But it is getting worse every day. Woke up today and it was like whiternoise's sig:
http://www.classicmv.f2s.com/something2.gif
except red. There were thousand of red dots flashing on everything black!
I am pretty sure this screen is on its last legs...
seeing red dots on dark background might be a dodgy dvi cable, have you tried a different cable
Good idea will change cable now... although unplugging and re-plugging does fix it... that usually doesn't effect dvi cable right?
well I haven't got another dvi cable here, so ill test that next week too...