Hyundai Blue H22W Monitor

[familypotter]

Over Christmas an old 19" CRT monitor died (ahhhh!) and I get it replaced with a new widescreen from Aria. After intensive research (around 3.5 minuts) I see the H22W in the special offers and think that's the one. Odered Friday afternoon - delivered this morning. Great service - Thanks to the guys in picking and dispatch.

I'm very pleased with the monitor EXCEPT (you knew there was a catch) for the fact it came with a DVI cable as well as a D-SUB cable and me being of an inquisitive mind, I noticed that the GeForce FX 5200 in my Dell Dimension 8300 has a DVI socket. So I try to boot with the DVI connected. I think it boots but I can see nothing because the screen is either blank or it says "No Signal".

Grabing a Dell 17" TFT, I plug that one into the DSUB connection and reboot - again nothing to be seen. I disconnect the H22W and reboot and the whole process displays on the Dell. I connect the H22W to the D-Sub and reboot - again no problem up it comes.

With the system up, I connect the DVI - nothing doing - black screen. Reconnect to the D-SUB and everything works well.

I'm now got the H22W connected with both DVI and DSUB cables. If I reboot, I can see nothing until I reboot with DVI disconnected. But If I reconnect the DVI after the reboot completes, the DSUB connection continues to work with both cables connected.

I start playing with the monitor options and find one to select between DVI and DSUB. Great, I think and select DVI. Nothing shows up on the screen but within seconds it revered to DSUB. Lots of other options do work and do stick. But not the DVI/DSUB choice.

I then notice in some of the literature the dreadful word "(optional)" being present each time DVI is mentioned. Does this mean that the H22W I bought does not have DVI hardware but is, in spite of that, supplied with the DVI socket and a DVI cable. That would seem a tad strange.

How bovvered am I? Not that much - I'm quite happy with the DSUB connection. But I am curious to know why the DVI doesn't work like I think it should.

RTFM, I hear you shout. All I can say is that I have more informative bog paper, so let's not go there.

Anyone out there got a DVI tip to see me on my way.

Thanks

Bill

[Lynx]

Unless you do silly resoultions which you wont and if you can spot the tiny extra sharpness in the dvi, no bother using it, my monitor runs on dsub nicely and is perfect colour reproduction within the units limits of course.

[M4T VW]

Hmm that is a strange one. Do you have a DSUB to DVI converter? Might be worth a try to see if its the cable...

[Aaron]

Grabing a Dell 17" TFT, I plug that one into the DSUB connection and reboot - again nothing to be seen. I disconnect the H22W and reboot and the whole process displays on the Dell. I connect the H22W to the D-Sub and reboot - again no problem up it comes.That was the bit that caught my eye.. Just so we're clear, you say the display comes up when you have one monitor connected to the dsub, but not on either when you have them both connected?

[familypotter]

That was the bit that caught my eye.. Just so we're clear, you say the display comes up when you have one monitor connected to the dsub, but not on either when you have them both connected?

That's right. Although I have no doubt that the system boots under all circumstances (disk noise, etc, etc,) I can only see something when only the DSUB connection is present. If only DVI or DVI and DSUB is connected at boot time, then nothing is displayed on either monitor.

[familypotter]

Unless you do silly resoultions which you wont and if you can spot the tiny extra sharpness in the dvi, no bother using it, my monitor runs on dsub nicely and is perfect colour reproduction within the units limits of course.

My thoughts precisely. I'm just a little bit curious though.

[coiler]

You mention you have both cables in at once?!!

DSUB will always take the signal away from DVI if its connected. I would say thats the prob. Simply connect DVI to your DVI on gfx card. Completely remove the DSUB cable.

Turn on pc, and then press the DVI button on TFT.

You know have a DVi working monitor.












Hopefully :p

[familypotter]

You mention you have both cables in at once?!!

DSUB will always take the signal away from DVI if its connected. I would say thats the prob. Simply connect DVI to your DVI on gfx card. Completely remove the DSUB cable.

Turn on pc, and then press the DVI button on TFT.

You know have a DVi working monitor.

Hopefully :p

You should have written that hopefully in BIG CAPITAL LETTERS.

(I've been away for a couple of days thus the delay in responding).

The problem with your suggested solution is that the DVI button, actually the monitor configuration choice between DVI and DSUB does not stick on DVI but rather does stick on DSUB, presumably because a DSUB connection is in place when I try to set it.

But with no monitor connection in place, the monitor configuration menu does not work at all. And with a DVI monitor connection made, it is looking for a DSUB connection because that is the way it is configured. It does not auto-detect DVI on startup.

(Did you ever see the film Catch 22?)

Anyway now something really wierd has happened. I had given up on the DVI/Dsub business and am quite happy with DSUB. But today I was using the system to work remotely with RDP on another system and it seemed that my 1600x1200 resolution was causing problems on the remote system. So I dropped the resolution to 1024x768 and worked happily all day. But that has caused something nasty to happen at my end. When I went to reset it to 1600x1200, instead of the huge range of resolutions that I had previously, the nVidia utility is only offering 4 with 1440x900 being the best. And if I try to set anything higher than that using the advanced function, PING, oh look the system just rebooted itself.

Now I don't want to put anyone off this screen but I just plugged its sound lead in and ... well you got a better sound from a £5 tranny radio listening to Radio Luxemburg (God, that dates me, eh!). So I will keep my speakers after all.

For what I mainly do this screen will do just fine but its not what I expected when I read the blurb on it before purchase.

[familypotter]

Found out what the crash problem was - awvid5.dll - which is a a part of PC Anywhere. Removed PC Anywhere and the crashes have stopped and I have my full rage of resolutions back again. Moral of the story - never trust Symantec software.

[cleggypdc]

indeed, NEVER use Symantec :)
unless your a Computer Science student who likes to rip off his clients for IT support.

[Garyttaylor]

I have purchased this 22 inch monitor as well.

Absolutely no problems with DVI connection. I have a nvidia 8400gs card installed in my computer.

The screen is superb, and there is a difference between DVI AND D-SUB. The images on it are excellent. Definitely a good buy.

I think your monitor must have a fault, might be worth playing with the settings in the menu or try setting your resolution to 1650 - 1050.

good luck.