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Samsung Syncmaster 175V Dim Picture

Hey all,

I have a Samsung Syncmaster 175V LCD monitor with a dim picture. It's almost like the backlight is bad, but then when you use the on-screen display, the menu is perfectly bright.

The menu appears "locked", and one time I did manage to get it unlocked by pressing some button sequence, but have not yet been able to repeat the feat.

After unlocking the display, the monitor seemed to be fine (i.e. full brightness across the entire screen). However, every time the monitor is turned off, it returns to this dim state.

I did some Google searches, and did see similar problems, but no real solutions (one person did have an identical problem, but htere was no solution posted as yet).

Any ideas? This monitor was very nice in it's day, and considering the OSD shows up nice and bright, I tend to shy away from a backlight problem.

Thanks for any help!

-Frank Holland, PA

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Frank
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So you cannot get the monitor's setup unlocked?

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Meat Plow

Between last night and today, I found out how to unlock the controls (hold + & - at the same time), but they become locked again. I don't yet see a pattern other than they get locked if the PC and monitor get turned off.

I will be trying a second video card shortly as well.

Very odd.

Thanks.

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Frank

Yes it is odd. Why not leave the monitor on? It will go into sleep mode if you shut the PC off. Maybe then the settings will stay. Very tough to trouble shoot stuff when there is no pattern to replicate the problem. Kind of like the high speed setting for the fan on my Chevy SUV. Sometimes it doesn't blow. You can mess around with the knob all you want but there is no pattern. It never stops when on high but sometimes will not switch to high from a lower speed. And it will never go on if the switch is left on high when it's not working but you can switch it to a lower speed and 99% of the time sooner or later it will run when switched to high, usually sooner than later.

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Meat Plow

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