Topic awaiting preservation: Weird monitor behavior (Page 1 of 1)

I've exhausted the possibilities at the Sony website for this one and I thought someone here might have had the same problem:

I have a Sony Vaio 19' Trinitron monitor (HMD-A400). Recently it's been clicking off and the light on the front flashes amber instead of a steady green. To get it back on I have to turn the power off for about 15 seconds and then turn it back on.

I've noticed that the clicking off happens only when I either maximize a browser window or if I have Photoshop running maximized and then I pull a browser window up in front of it.

The Sony knowledge base has nothing about this. I've installed the newest drivers, etc, but it's still happening.

Any clues?

:::11oh1:::

obviously your monitor is trying to screen all the rubbish you look at. Unfortunatly the volume is just too high so it is shorting out.

thats my educated guess.


[antique sigs are us]

did you try to degauss it?

Yep, I've tried degaussing and no effect.

:::11oh1:::

hm... it could be that you've been running the monitor above it's specs for a while - and it's electronics quickly shut off the power when the overload becomes dangerous... you havn't been running it at 120hz, or maybe 2100xsomething@95hz ;-). If you did, toning that down a bit might help. For a while.

Otherwise, it sounds like an electronics problem.