Problem with Philips 170B5CB TFT

[jonjon]

Just bought one of these TFT monitors to go with my radeaon saphire 9600xt
128mb. The monitor works fine with the d-sub (analogue), but I've just tried
it with a belkin F2E4141b10-DD DVI cable and it doesn't work.

Now I don't know if this is because there's a faulty input port on the monitor, a faulty dvi cable, or a faulty dvi output on the graphics card. I've done all the obvious thing like install all the most upto date drivers, made sure the
monitor settings were for digital input, etc.

Anyway the problem is.

When the pc is first powered up, the bios info screen is almost bright red, however once the monitor goes into windows (xp sp2) the display is reasonablly ok but there are lots of red pixels, and sometimes the display flickers like mad)?

Any help gratefully appreciated as I don't know where to start, ie is it a
config problem, or a hardware problem, if it's a hardware what's faulty, the
monitor, the lead or graphics card?


I'll probably be able to fault find by the process of elimantion on Monday, but I'd like to get sorted this weekend if at all possible.

TIA

Jon

 

[Sniper]

I would take it back to the shop you bought it from and get them to test it, though it sounds like a faulty monitor!

red pixels you get are called "stuck pixels" I think, they will remain there, no matter what you do, theres no fix I believe. I would get a replacement or check it in store to make sure it looks ok and does not contain any dead/stuck pixles.

you might what to read this http://www.zone365.com/content/10/102

 

[jonjon]

Problem sorted. It was the cable. I was using a DVI-D to DVI-D, where as I should have been using a DVI-I to DVI-I. Don't quite understand why as I thought my monitor and graphics card (radeon saphire 9600xt 128mb) were both DVD-D compatible, but obviously not.