Problem with Iiyama CRT monitor

External Since: Jan 17, 2006 Posts: 1

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, apologies if it isn't.

I have an Iiyama VisionMaster Pro 413 17" monitor, which has just started
playing up.

I haven't had any trouble with the monitor until I switched on the PC this
evening, and found that the screen image was looking rather squashed -
flattened to the point where there were about two clear inches of black
space above and below, and with a convex border on each side.

I thought maybe the monitor had just somehow reset to factory defaults, so I
used the monitor controls to correct the image, but even with the vertical
picture height and zoom at maximum, there's still an inch of black border
above and below the image, so I've had to shrink it horizontally in order
for it not to look distorted.

The problem persists at every resolution I've tried, including during
startup. I'm running Windows XP with SP1 and a GeForce FX5200 graphics card.

Any suggestions, or am I looking at buying a new monitor?

--
Mark.

External Since: May 16, 2004 Posts: 66

"Mark Blunden" <m.blundenATntlworld.com.RemoveThis@address.invalid> wrote in message
news:434ojvF1lh74nU1@individual.net...
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, apologies if it isn't.
>
> I have an Iiyama VisionMaster Pro 413 17" monitor, which has just started
> playing up.
>
> I haven't had any trouble with the monitor until I switched on the PC this
> evening, and found that the screen image was looking rather squashed -
> flattened to the point where there were about two clear inches of black
> space above and below, and with a convex border on each side.
>
> I thought maybe the monitor had just somehow reset to factory defaults, so
> I
> used the monitor controls to correct the image, but even with the vertical
> picture height and zoom at maximum, there's still an inch of black border
> above and below the image, so I've had to shrink it horizontally in order
> for it not to look distorted.
>
> The problem persists at every resolution I've tried, including during
> startup. I'm running Windows XP with SP1 and a GeForce FX5200 graphics
> card.
>
> Any suggestions, or am I looking at buying a new monitor?
>
> --
> Mark.
>
New monitor or repair - the vertical deflection circuit has gone south.

NGA