You hear of people buying LCD monitors only to find they have a dead pixel. Well beat this, I have 4 dead pixels, 1 dead sub-pixel, around an inch square of damaged pixels and intermittent horizontal lines flashing across the screen.

What did I do to deserve that? Needless to say it's going back the sooner the better.

On the plus side this thing is huge! going from a 17" CRT screen to a 19" LCD screen makes so much difference. In case you don't know CRT's are measured from corner to corner of their case. LCD screen's are measured from corner to corner of their screen so my 17" CRT screen was really around 15".

The display is great, the 16ms response time is fine and the contest and brightness are easily settable to my likings. All in all this a great screen for it's price especially if you take into account that it comes with DVI, something I see as very important There is of course one major draw back. My two Linux penguins and centre satellite can no long sit on top of my monitor .

I can't wait till I get a working one lol



11 Comments

Bwongar Location: Joined: 02/04/05	Bummer on that, bro! This is the reason I chose to buy in-store - if something happens, I can take it back that day I hope they get it squared away for you soon!! Totally off-topic: have you tried Python?

Dugahole Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Joined: 27/03/05	Damn that would suck, bad luck. On the other hand I suppose the new linux thing is keeping you happy

Chris Location: West Midlands, UK Joined: 24/03/05	Yeah Bwongar I would rather buy an LCD from a shop too but I couldn't find any that sold this particular screen. Nope I haven't tried Python but was going to take a look at it, I take it you like it? Dugahole it does suck as for the new Linux I haven't got that installed yet as I have been too busy playing HL2 on the new screen

Dugahole Location: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Joined: 27/03/05	Gday HL2 would look sweet on a big monitor, what sort of system you running these days? We also got 11 people in the mafia audioscrobbler group now after some encouragement from me lol so we get some stats now YAY!. I also have a blog now if you want to check it http://dugahole.blogspot.com/

Chris Location: West Midlands, UK Joined: 24/03/05	I'm running an Athlon 64 3200+ with an ATI Radeon 8600XT. Good news about the group Dug, It'll be interesting to see the stats. Nice to see you have started up your own blog, I have added you to my blogroll

Bwongar Location: Joined: 02/04/05	K fine. I'm going to start my OWN blog. Deusiah... could you help me redesign it?

Bwongar Location: Joined: 02/04/05	http://bwongar.com/blog/ You knew it was coming...

Chris Location: West Midlands, UK Joined: 24/03/05	How exactly do you want me to help you redesign in? Congrats on starting the Blog BTW

Chris Location: West Midlands, UK Joined: 24/03/05	Damn, Amazon still haven't sent me a new montior

Bwongar Location: Joined: 02/04/05	How long has it been since you actually sent it?

Chris Location: West Midlands, UK Joined: 24/03/05	Well I contacted Amazon about it on the 8th, they said my new monitor will be "dispatched as soon as possible to the same address". At the moment I'm still using the faulty monitor, my plan was to continue to use this till the other comes but it's not looking like I will be able to do that now.

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