Namelessme
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Okay, it seems I have a bit of a weird problem with the monitor I just bought. It's a NEC LCD 2190Uxp.
It works great except for one annoying problem. It appears to go into standby mode, depending on light levels (or randomness). What I have seen so far:
Twice when trying to turn it on I get a blinking amber light. That means it's in standby mode or not getting a signal. I tried 2 different computers, and 2 different cables, so it's extremely unlikely it's a signal issue from the computer.
I tried turning it on today, and just got a blinking amber light. No button pressing made a difference. I turned the monitor so the window shined on it, and then the image displayed and remained on.
If I lower brightness real low, below 10% or so, the screen goes off, and the amber light blinks again. It then returns to normal after I turn the monitor on and off.
I contacted NEC (great customer service, by the way) and spoke to an agent. He was sort of baffled, but feels it's a problem with the IPM. I do of course have IPM turned off too. And autobrightness off. Only thing he could recommend was a factory reset (which didn't help) or send it in for repair. I got this off of eBay rather cheap (<$100), so paying for a repair doesn't make sense. After checking the hours used (7100 or so, assuming I read that info correctly), I am starting to wonder if the low usage has to do with this problem, as a 5 year old monitor probably should have more hours on it.
Anyway... any ideas as to what I can try to fix this? Anyone else with a similar series monitor seen this type of problem before? Even if things don't work perfectly, I'm hoping I can find a workaround for this issue.
It works great except for one annoying problem. It appears to go into standby mode, depending on light levels (or randomness). What I have seen so far:
Twice when trying to turn it on I get a blinking amber light. That means it's in standby mode or not getting a signal. I tried 2 different computers, and 2 different cables, so it's extremely unlikely it's a signal issue from the computer.
I tried turning it on today, and just got a blinking amber light. No button pressing made a difference. I turned the monitor so the window shined on it, and then the image displayed and remained on.
If I lower brightness real low, below 10% or so, the screen goes off, and the amber light blinks again. It then returns to normal after I turn the monitor on and off.
I contacted NEC (great customer service, by the way) and spoke to an agent. He was sort of baffled, but feels it's a problem with the IPM. I do of course have IPM turned off too. And autobrightness off. Only thing he could recommend was a factory reset (which didn't help) or send it in for repair. I got this off of eBay rather cheap (<$100), so paying for a repair doesn't make sense. After checking the hours used (7100 or so, assuming I read that info correctly), I am starting to wonder if the low usage has to do with this problem, as a 5 year old monitor probably should have more hours on it.
Anyway... any ideas as to what I can try to fix this? Anyone else with a similar series monitor seen this type of problem before? Even if things don't work perfectly, I'm hoping I can find a workaround for this issue.