20 Most Recent ViewSonic VX2235wm LCD Monitor - Page 6 Questions & Answers

Try disconnecting your connection to your computer.
If you see a no signal message with a dark background, you have problems with your video card.
If you continue to recv. the white screen, you have input signal problems with the LCD monitor itself.


If you do recv. a no signal message witha dark background, try removing and reseating the video card.

Good day sir/maam, hi, it seems that your monitor's power supply is slowly loosing power, this may be cause by parts inside to fail slowly, this may be resistors and capacitors, or a slow blow fuse, and a faulty switching regulator IC, then stops. Servicing LCDs are quite difficult, you need to bring it to your dealer for proper advice on your LCD.

There are about 8 screws on the back of the monitor. Remove them, and the monitor's back panel will come off, then you can remove more screws to get further into the monitor. By the way... what are you trying to do by taking your monitor apart?

Just as an FYI I have had the same problem with two of these units. Both purchased at the same time. First one went and would not come out of standby for a long period of time, then would not display on boot up. About 3 months after the first one started having the problem the second one was doing the same. Upon taking apart the second one I noticed two capacitors (250 micro farad, 25 volts) on the power supply at the connector going to the main board had a bulge. I decided to take the first monitor apart as well and the same two capacitors had problems. I replaced these with new capacitors and both monitors are now working like new. So in this case it was a power supply issue not allowing the monitors to wake up. This makes some sense since the problem started slowly at first then got worse and worse over time until there was no display no matter how long I waited. Since both were out of warranty I had nothing to lose. Hope this helps.

This would indicate that you need a new monitor.

Hi rtwiedeman

This can be easily fixed.
When you are on the Internet,
From the Menu at the top
Go to Tools
Then Options
Then Contents
Check the box which says "load images automatically"
Click ok
When you come back to the page Just refresh it.
All the images and icons will be there.
Hope this will help you.
If it helped you, please give a rating
luciana44

can be video card, try other monitor. If working with other, your monitor have need to an fresh IC RW bug fixed only by an expert! if I have help you, rate me. Thanks

Your windows video settings are for a monitor that has more capability (eg more pixels/finer resolution, higher refresh rate, more colour bits than the current screen can handle so it's spit the dummy.

Run your computer in safe mode (I believe that uses basic video driver) and set the video display options to a very low level, then re-start your computer again in normal mode, and set the options to the native resolution, refresh rate etc of the monitor. These should be listed in the specs that would come in the box with it (may be resolution: 1,680x1,050)

Hi,

Try inside your Display Properties. Settings tab, Advanced button, Monitor tab, Properties button, Driver tab, Update driver and follow on screen instructions. Eventually it would ask you where the drivers are located (CD drive?).

Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back how things turned up or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards.

Thank you for using FixYa.

Assuming your cable is good & your PC (video card) is properly functioning & everything is plugged in correctly,;
If the screen flickers a bit when you start it, then the problem may be in the power circuits. Open the back & look for burned components on the circuit board. (capacitors, fuses, resistors, transistors, whatever.)

If it does not flicker then the bulb is likely burned out.

ALSO: you should read this guy's experience. ----> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1136249

More than likely this is a driver problem. Many people are having this issue with the new driver that has been made available for this monitor. I have two of these monitors in a dual configuration and had the same problem. You will need to download the old driver or just delete the new one that downloaded and it should fix itself.
Good Luck,
Rob Mixon

I've not seen this problem on a ViewSonic but have on a Dell flat screen. The fix was the obvious one: the power connection on the back of the monitor was loose -- have you checked this. Also if the power cord is too tight it could be the problem. Other then this, it sounds like a short inside the monitor.

Hope this helps

Don't let the computer turn the monitor off. Go into control panel and click on power option. don't let the computer turn anything off and disable hibernation if on. go to screen saver and have it come on in about 30 mins.

yes you can. If you need further assistance on how to do it please let me know though its as simple as switching inputs with the buttons on the monitor.
Thank you,
Lee

Tricky one. Have you tried using different dispay resolutions from your Windows Display Control Panel?
ie 1200x1014, 1600x1400, etc.

When you say you used the manual adjust, do you mean the horizontal sync option?

Did you perform a Settings Recall?

And most monitors have a way of entering into an engineering "Factory Service Menu". Usually by depressing specific buttons while the monitor is OFF, and then pressing the power button while still holding the others. Then let all button go at once. From there, hit the normal button that you use for getting into the OSD. In the OSD, there's usually a new field with all kinds of cool new settings to play with. One of them being a soft reset. You'll have to search the net for how to enter into your Factory service menu.

Oh wait! I know!
If your picture has moved to the right, move yourself accordingly.
So that now you and your picture will be aligned properly.

He he he...
Kidding!
That one was from ViewSonic customer support.

Your monitors backlight is shutting off due to a failed component. The inverter circuit which drives the high current CCFL backlights, has a feedback design so that if there are any problems with the devices along the high current path, the high current will shut off. This way if something got shorted out, it would not sustain or cause any great harm. This is a great feature if you are the "short" in the circuit.

So in actuallity, your monitor is still on, and it's still showing you a picture. You just can't really see it because the light from behind has turned off. If you take a flashlight and put it up close to the screen, you'll see your desktop again!

As to what is causing this, It can be several things.
-A broken or burnt out CCFL
-A bad capacitor in the power supply filter or on the inverter.
-A shorted out IC.
-A mouse has crawled inside your LCD and chewed the CCFL wires. (this usually is accompanied with a high pitched squeeling sound, and/or smoke)

You can send me the entire monitor and I will repair it for $40. You pay shipping costs BOTH ways. Let me know if you're interested and I'll provide you with more information on where to send it.

Thanks
Chris
Boise LCD
[email protected]
(208) 891-9117

What most likely happened was that the computer monitor had a surge. If it was that case, which hopefully shouldn't be, you will have to buy a new monitor. If not then trying using that monitor with another computer, and see if it still works.

There are many areas of the LCD monitor that can cause very much the same effect that you see. Most of the time there are capacitors that go defective.

The caps can be tested with an ESR meter. This is a time consuming job. The caps are mostly surface mount types, and will require the proper tools to change them.

Normaly the service centers will change the defective boards rather than try to service them. There is no component level service support for any of these monitors.

In the end, it would be cheaper for you to replace the monitor rather than to fix it.

Jerry G.

To turn off the reminder, use the buttons on the front of the monitor to do the following:- Press #1. Use down arrow to highlight Setup Menu and press #2. Use down arrow to highlight Resolution Notice and press #2. Select Disable and Exit.