has this monitor been damaged

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sparks

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I gave a friend an old 2560x1440 monitor.
She has windows 10 and a 1080p monitor.
when she plugged in the big monitor this is what she sees.
I have had her disconnect her 1080p monitor and use the 2560 and still nothing.
nvidia 980ti video card.
when she has both of her monitors hooked up everything goes to the bad monitor and she opens nvidia control panel same thing everything to the new monitor and she cant' see anything.

https://imgur.com/Ck50Ak3





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copied and put it so you could see sorry about that
I thought it was a bad dual link dvi cable but its all she has.



PS this monitor will only run in 2560 x 1440 it will NOT run in other resolutions.
quix 27 in 144hz monitor
 
Yep that looks broken or a bad cable. Does it show that when nothing is connected? Does it ever change colors as the PC boots?
 
Is she tech saavy or a newb? Did she plug it in hot / system on?

Did she plug in the old monitor solo to see if it works still? That would eliminate a bad video card.

So it was good when you had it but when she tries to use it on her rig it's not working?

But yeah from that one pic you posted it doesn't look good.
 
the monitor was fine when I unplugged it from a system I have....its been about a year sitting in a closet.
the video card with both monitors plugged in works fine...but nvidia control panel won't come up because it goes to the bad monitor and won't open on the good one
she can right click on the old monitor, click on nvidia control and it opens on the bad one.



The monitor just sitting with only power turned on no cables...it blinks from red to green over and over full screen.
shouldn't ti be black so I am guessing it has a major problem.
 
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after talking to a guy that works on laptops. He said that monitor should run on a single link but whatever.
He has fixed over 50 laptops with the same symptoms and all of them were dropped. 99% of the time its a loose or disconnected ribbon cable.
 
sparks said:
after talking to a guy that works on laptops. He said that monitor should run on a single link but whatever.
He has fixed over 50 laptops with the same symptoms and all of them were dropped. 99% of the time its a loose or disconnected ribbon cable.
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1440p needs a dual link cable. That level of cluelessness makes me skeptical of anything he has to say.
 
The monitor just sitting with only power turned on no cables...it blinks from red to green over and over full screen.

this is why he said its more than just a cable.
 
This does look mostly liek a broken monitor.

mostly likely due to physsical stress
 
sparks said:
The monitor just sitting with only power turned on no cables...it blinks from red to green over and over full screen.

this is why he said its more than just a cable.
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Could have solved this with one post if you started with this. The monitor is dead, R.I.P.
 
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