issue with a Samsung T220 22"

[Raiasokura]

Hi everyone,

Currently having some major issues with my new T220, i cant seem to get DVI to work as soon as i turn power on the screen just stays black and appears like its in stand by (red LED flickers on and off repeatedly). Im really losing patience with it and considering sending it back the only dowside is i bought it online so getting it back is gonna cost me a pretty hefty sum.

Ive tried 2 different DVI cables one which i know work great, tried using the other DVI slot on my graphics card and still nothing. now heres the strange thing i decided to test my 360 so i went out and bought a HDMI cable to use with the HD adapter that came with my card and unbelieveibly it works perfectly. this is when connecting the HDMI adapter through DVI then linking the hdmi cable to my 360 and the screen turns on and everything works perfectly.

logic would tell me that the DVI is indeed working as the 360 works through DVI and yet my pc doesn't. also when i connect my rig through VGA everything works fine i get the bios screen and everything is A ok, its just DVI what isnt working but yet its working with the HDMI adapter, is this looking like this could be some kind of compatibility issue with my current videocard? card im currently using is a his 4870 512mb.

would really appreciate the feed back on this and wondering if anyone has had a similiar experience with a samsung branded screen.

 

[newtekie1]

What happens when you press the "source" button on the right side of the monitor? Have you tried the other DVI port on the video card?

 

[Raiasokura]

Yeah tried that, still nothing also tried setting auto source to manual.

 

[temp02]

A similar issue happened to me when I bought my T190, after BIOS screen Windows would not startup for some reason after plugging it through DVI (continuous boot image loop), maybe you are experiencing the same issue.

Boot into safe mode uninstall all ATi stuff, reboot normally uninstall .NET all stuff (this will prevent "MOM Implementation" errors), reboot and install the Catalyst suite (it will reinstall the .NET stuff automatically).

At least for me this has worked perfectly...

 

[Raiasokura]

I havent been lucky enough for it to even display the BIOS screen yet, it simply doesn't display anything just a black screen. the red light just "flickers" constantly, similar to when its on stand by.

 

[Raiasokura]

Well i decided to return this, shame as it looked like a decent monitor its either a technical fault or a problem with my graphics card will get my money back and most likely get another branded monitor instead.

Any recommendations?

 

[RadeonX2]

yep send it back. when I first got my T220 it works fine for about 30 mins afterwards the screen became garbled and pixelated like a TV reception going bad. I returned the LCD and they replaced it with a working one all seems fine now.

 

[stayplation3]

shoulda got the t220hd. thats wut i have and its never failed on me and 1080p games on the ps3 look sik

 

[newtekie1]

shoulda got the t220hd. thats wut i have and its never failed on me and 1080p games on the ps3 look sik

Too bad they are 720p upscaled...

 

[stayplation3]

it goes to 1920x1080 resolution on a ps3, 360, blu ray player, anything that isnt a pc

 

[newtekie1]

it goes to 1920x1080 resolution on a ps3, 360, blu ray player, anything that isnt a pc

What resolution it outputs at doesn't affect what resolution it is actually rendered at. My DVDs outputs as 1080p, that doesn't make my DVDs look any better than the 480p they really are.

The large majority of console games are rendered at 720p, then upscaled to 1080p. The monitor might say 1080p, but the image you are looking at is 720p.

 

[Zubasa]

it goes to 1920x1080 resolution on a ps3, 360, blu ray player, anything that isnt a pc

The PS3 and I believe the console in this generation are not powerful enough to render all the games in 1080P,
therefore it looks like many if not all games are rendered in 720P then upscaled to 1080 as newtekie stated.

 

[stayplation3]

thats not the point nub cakes. the point is that the monitor can go up to 1080p so he should get one.

 

[laszlo]

thats not the point nub cakes..

try to be polite and respect other members

 

[95Viper]

thats not the point nub cakes. the point is that the monitor can go up to 1080p so he should get one.

That monitor has an input of 1080p and a tuner that can receive 1080p, however it has a max display resolution of 1680X1050 output.

Per Samsung's own specs, on their web page and the manual, located here:http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=computersperipherals&type=monitors&subtype=premium&model_cd=LS22TDNSUV/ZA

 

[stayplation3]

That monitor has an input of 1080p and a tuner that can receive 1080p, however it has a max display resolution of 1680X1050 output.

Per Samsung's own specs, on their web page and the manual, located here:http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=computersperipherals&type=monitors&subtype=premium&model_cd=LS22TDNSUV/ZA

1680x1050 on a pc. it can go 1920x1080 on anything else. as i said before

 

[newtekie1]

1680x1050 on a pc. it can go 1920x1080 on anything else. as i said before

No, 1680x1050 on everything else also...

If the panel is 1680x1050, you aren't going any higher than that, sorry to burst your bubble. It might say 1080p, but its still scaled to 1680x1050...

 

[stayplation3]

so when i tell my ps3 to only display in 1080p and not any lower like 720p, then it asks me if i can see the picture its really lying to me and isnt 1080p? lolz

 

[erocker]

so when i tell my ps3 to only display in 1080p and not any lower like 720p, then it asks me if i can see the picture its really lying to me and isnt 1080p? lolz

The tuner on your TV can display 1080p, the actual screen cannot. The maximum displayable image on your screen is 1680x1050.

 

[Pete1burn]

I'm not sure why this is so hard for you to understand.

 

[newtekie1]

so when i tell my ps3 to only display in 1080p and not any lower like 720p, then it asks me if i can see the picture its really lying to me and isnt 1080p? lolz

Correct, it is not 1080p. Why is that hard to understand? For someone who was quick to label "nub" you sure seem to have limitted knowledge of how LCDs work and a hard time with comprehension...makes me wonder who the "nub" really is...

I'll try to make it easy:

The LCD panel in the T220HD only physically has 1680x1050 pixels. Thats is 1,764,000 physical pixels in the panel. 1920x1080 is 2,073,600 pixels. Where do you expect the monitor to pull those extra 309,600 pixels from? Is it pulling those pixels out of it's ass?

 

[Mussels]

that screen is not 1080P. its scaling the image and shrinking it to fit the lower resolution.


as to the OP's original question, since he only seemed to have trouble with DVI, did you test to see if your DVI cable was faulty? What resolution were you running at (if you had a choice, on DVI)

 

[95Viper]

Thanks, guys/gals, I thought I was losing it; or, that, Samsung has discovered the Magic of Disney!

@Raiasokura> Sorry you gotta return it. I have an Asus, which, I really like. My wife uses a Hannspree, and the outputs/visuals are wonderful. Gotten lucky and have had no dead or stuck pixels on the monitors when ordered and they worked flawlessly. What ever you decide; go at least for 1080p, as the prices seem to be coming down and there are some good deals on line.

For instance:http://www.dealsvista.com/deal/samsung-21-5-widescreen-lcd-monitor-in-piano-black/37399

Goodluck

 

[subhendu]

try to fix the cables properly...

 

[Raiasokura]

I decided to go for the Benq E2200HD and will be returning the samsung this week, the benq looks like a decent screen and have found one at 2ms its just a touch slightly more expensive than the other E2200's (as some are rated at 5ms) but seems worth it.

its also capable of 1080P full hi def (1920x1080) and is 21.5" just like the samsung in the post above, what im curious about now is, how will this look when running 1680x1050 resolution when linked to a PC, will it scale down? displaying a lesser quality image or will it look just as good as any other 22" screen. what i mean by that is will the benq still be able to display a high quality image at 1680x1050, will it look any better than any other for example 20", 22" @ 1680x1050.

just assuming the native is 1920x1080 on the benq, but i could be wrong. it would be be nice if it could scale properly to 1680x1050 and still look to a decent standard. not sure if many pc gaming titles support the native resolution of 1920x1080, i might also be tempted to get a bluray player alongside the screen.