Extreme ghosting Hello! I'm trying to decide whether to buy a second hand Dell 1900FP 19" TFT monitor (manufactured 2/2002) which according to the seller has been trough some difficulties: For some reason there started to be "extreme ghosting" in the screen, meaning that in the end even the mouse cursor started to create a trail. The outcome of the ghosting resulted in a virtually unreadable screen full off color mush (slightly non-technical term). After trying to repair it and not finding any problems he reassembled the unit and found out that it didn't power-on anymore. Dear gurus of computer technology, what do you think? Should I buy the unit (for a very cheap price) or is it beyond repair already...? Thank you very much in advance. I hope I would be able to give you more information.

I'd like to add that by ghosting I mean that the screen leaves a residual image of all that it displays (to the power of 1000). It's like a graphical memory effect. Maybe something to do with refresh rates...?? I've seen maybe similar with my PDA when it crashes ( :) ), the screen starts to fade to white. Though In this problem the seller only said that thing about the ghosting. I'd like to add that by ghosting I mean that the screen leaves a residual image of all that it displays (to the power of 1000). It's like a graphical memory effect. Maybe something to do with refresh rates...?? I've seen maybe similar with my PDA when it crashes ( :) ), the screen starts to fade to white. Though In this problem the seller only said that thing about the ghosting.

I got one of these monitors and it seems to have the same problem discussed here. It powers on, and will find the signal going to it and even show a picture, but the picture is extremely slow. It displays as if the pixels aren't being energized/deenergized quick enough which results in extreme trails. Is there any solution to this? Is it most likely a problem with the boards that provide the signal/power to the LCD itself or a problem with the LCD panel? I have disassembled the monitor once and didn't notice any burnt out capacitors, but that was just a visual inspection.

Thanks,
Nick


I got one of these monitors and it seems to have the same problem discussed here. It powers on, and will find the signal going to it and even show a picture, but the picture is extremely slow. It displays as if the pixels aren't being energized/deenergized quick enough which results in extreme trails. Is there any solution to this? Is it most likely a problem with the boards that provide the signal/power to the LCD itself or a problem with the LCD panel? I have disassembled the monitor once and didn't notice any burnt out capacitors, but that was just a visual inspection.

Thanks,
Nick