On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 06:36:17PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Chris G wrote:
The monitor initially seems pretty standard with on screen setup and buttons to move through the menus but the real pain is that if there is no signal input you can't activate the menu. It actually tells you this in the manual, I didn't believe it at first but it really is true.
I had set the monitor to VGA input (it's dual VGA and HDMI) but (for various reasons, see below) I had the HDMI lead connected. Hit the 'menu' button and notheing happens because there's no input on the VGA connector, sort of Catch22 really, I had to actually connect something to send it a VGA signal to let me get the menu up to switch it to DVI input. OK, it would *probably* have managed itself if I'd left it at Auto input select but we wanted to specifiy which input was being used.
To be honest this is the norm, I can't think of a recent monitor I have seen where you can get into the menu without a signal being present. That said everything I have seen will automatically switch to the appropriate input if only one is present so I am not sure why you had problems here.
One thing worth bearing in mind is that DVI is not hotplug safe (well officially neither is VGA) but hot-plugging DVI can cause all manner of funnies.
I think the real downside of this monitor is the time it takes to show something on screen after a signal appears. I'm pretty sure this is why I was having problems with the motherboard BIOS, it *was* showing the splash screen but the monitor wasn't waking up quickly enough.