My Acer AL1917W (VGA) is hooked up as an extended desktop for my primary AL1916W (DVI) monitor. From here on the primary monitor will be called "#1" and the extended is "#2".
For the past month or two #2's backlight has been turning off at seemingly random times, around 5-10 times a week. If I move a window to that monitor, I can just barely see the outline. Turning the monitor off and back on was always the fix... until today.
I woke up this morning at an ungodly hour to the sound of a loud monotone siren emanating from my computer. It was the POST speaker going crazy. After rebooting the speaker started right up again, so out it came. Though after booting into Windows (7 x64) #2 was off. So I flipped the switch off/on and my wallpaper appeared, then vanished again three seconds later.
The video card has been removed, slot cleaned, and reseated. The cables to the monitors have been switched, so now the afflicted monitor has been hooked up through DVI, yet still exhibiting the issues described above.
Does anyone else have a suggestion to what may be going on with this? Something else to try maybe.
I appreciate any assistance,
Nathan
For the past month or two #2's backlight has been turning off at seemingly random times, around 5-10 times a week. If I move a window to that monitor, I can just barely see the outline. Turning the monitor off and back on was always the fix... until today.
I woke up this morning at an ungodly hour to the sound of a loud monotone siren emanating from my computer. It was the POST speaker going crazy. After rebooting the speaker started right up again, so out it came. Though after booting into Windows (7 x64) #2 was off. So I flipped the switch off/on and my wallpaper appeared, then vanished again three seconds later.
The video card has been removed, slot cleaned, and reseated. The cables to the monitors have been switched, so now the afflicted monitor has been hooked up through DVI, yet still exhibiting the issues described above.
Does anyone else have a suggestion to what may be going on with this? Something else to try maybe.
I appreciate any assistance,
Nathan