[logan289]

Well, not exactly. It works only when it wants to. On Saturday night, I turned off my monitor but left my computer stay on because I like to listen to music as I sleep without having the monitor shining on my face. I've been doing this for YEARS though so nothing new.

However, I woke up on Sunday and my Monitor wouldn't turn on! In fact, it flashed on for only a second and then went black again! I pressed my "change screen" button on my monitor (my model has the option to display two different screens, analog or digital, with the press of a button) and that didn't help...until I pressed it at the same time of the quick flicker of screen. It then seemed to work.

However, I turned the monitor off again like I always did, and the same thing happened monday morning! Only this time it was harder to deal with but eventually started working again.

Tuesday, it worked simply by holding the button down this time.

This morning, it didn't work for 20 minutes and I just got lucky and I had enough, so I came here. It's like it's condition is getting worse every day and it ONLY happens when the monitor is turned OFF for a long period of time. Nothing happens while it stays on!

However, I have the Samsung ODD Firmware Liveupdate tool and on the first morning this began, it had said it had updated my firmware, but I can't imagine how that would be connected to my monitor since it's my DVD reader/burner firmware that was updated, right?

I'm actually afraid to turn my monitor off again and I have no idea what's wrong with it. It's important because I need this computer screen for my online college courses.

Before anyone asks, I do not have another monitor laying around to compare whether it's system settings or the monitor itself, but I can't imagine it being the monitor itself because otherwise, why would it work when it stays turned on? if a bulb was dying or something, wouldn't it break down during the time the monitor was on?

Anyway I've only had this monitor for 1 and 1/2 years. It's still pretty new. I've included Everest information regarding the monitor as well as my graphics card. I hope someone can help!

[ Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] ]

Monitor Properties:
Monitor Name Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB]
Monitor ID SAM0254
Model SyncMaster
Manufacture Date Week 13 / 2007
Serial Number HVZP314802
Max. Visible Display Size 47 cm x 30 cm (22.0")
Picture Aspect Ratio 5:3
Horizontal Frequency 30 - 81 kHz
Vertical Frequency 56 - 75 Hz
Gamma 2.20
DPMS Mode Support Active-Off

[ PCI Express x16: nVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT PCI-E ]

Graphics Processor Properties:
Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT PCI-E
GPU Code Name NV43GT
PCI Device 10DE / 0140
Transistors 143 million
Process Technology 0.11u
Die Size 150 mm2
Bus Type PCI Express x16 @ x16
Memory Size 128 MB
GPU Clock 501 MHz
RAMDAC Clock 400 MHz
Pixel Pipelines 8
TMU Per Pipeline 1
Vertex Shaders 3 (v3.0)
Pixel Shaders 1 (v3.0)
DirectX Hardware Support DirectX v9.0c
Pixel Fillrate 4008 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate 4008 MTexel/s

Memory Bus Properties:
Bus Type GDDR3
Bus Width 128-bit
Real Clock 501 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock 1002 MHz
Bandwidth 15.7 GB/s

Graphics Processor Manufacturer:
Company Name NVIDIA Corporation
Product Information http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=products
Driver Download http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

nVIDIA GPU Registers:
nv-000000 043000A4
nv-100000 00000000
nv-100200 43003021
nv-10020C 08000000
nv-101000 A0C0C097
nv-680500 00000000
nv-680504 00000000
nv-680570 00000000
nv-680574 00000000
nv-68057C 8000011F
nv-001540 001F0703
nv-004000 C000001C
nv-004004 0D071402
nv-004008 01C00000
nv-004020 E030001C
nv-004024 1B040B02
nv-004028 80000CC9
nv-00C040 3C0BC333

[logan289]

It's been a week now. Still no solutions.

[Megabite]

So do you turn the switch off on the Monitor....and the just switch it on when you want it.....why not put it into hibernate...found in Power setting in control panel

[Frank4d]

I have a Samsung 204B that failed in the same way after about 1 year. When I turned it on, it flashed my Windows desktop for about 1 second then when black. Turned it off and back on, same thing. Solution was to call Samsung and explain that it didn't work with three computers. They gave me a RMA number, repaired it and paid shipping both ways.

The only downside was that I had to buy a 24 inch monitor to hold me over while it was being repaired.

[logan289]

Originally Posted by Frank4d

I have a Samsung 204B that failed in the same way after about 1 year. When I turned it on, it flashed my Windows desktop for about 1 second then when black. Turned it off and back on, same thing. Solution was to call Samsung and explain that it didn't work with three computers. They gave me a RMA number, repaired it and paid shipping both ways.

The only downside was that I had to buy a 24 inch monitor to hold me over while it was being repaired.

So it's literally broken?!

[Frank4d]

You need to try the monitor with another computer.

[Rich-M]

Sure sounds like it and I would try it with another pc to be sure.