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February 24th, 2009 06:00
HELP!! DELL 2208WFP LCD MONITOR POWER SAVE MODE PROBLEM
i recently purchased a dell 2208wfp 22" LCD monitor and am having a lot of problems getting it to work.
using the monitor with a dell latitude d620 notebook, 2gb ram with the dell supllied vga cable.
first few times i plugged it in, the LCD would only display the screen background and none of the other windows on the laptop. then, after setting up the monitor using "graphics options" from "properties" on the desktop, i was able to get the LCD to start mirroring the laptop screen. now, after working sporadically for a couple of days and going into "power save" mode randomly without any changes made by me, it is in a constant state of "power save" mode!! i have tried all the fixes offered on various forums and sites including dell's to no avail. from disconnecting the entire system and reconnecting all the cables to enabling the "power schemes" to a "never sleep" mode to turning on the network drivers and downloading the dell display driver from the dell site!! nothing will get this thing to work!! it's in a constant state of "power save"!!!!
even while the LCD is already in a "sleep mode" (blank, black screen), the LCD randomly displays "Auto Detect(1: Analog Input) Entering Power Save" and goes back to sleep..no other images, whatsoever!!
checked the dell recommended "self-test" feature where the LCD displays the green, white, red and blue window and that seems to suggest that the monitor is ok. if everything is fine, how do i get this to work??
help!!
Kforaker
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March 12th, 2009 15:00
I am also seeing this exact same issue on my D620 and so far nothing has worked to fix this problem either (uninstalling/re-installing drivers etc.)
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March 13th, 2009 20:00
g26eee,
The fact that the self test works indicates initially that the display is fine. To isolate the issue further, simply connect your display to another computer if available. If your display works rock solid on this other PC, it is safe to assume you have a grahics issue out of the Lattitude D620. If so at this point refer to the notebook/video forum for advice or contact Dell tech support. Also ensure that you are running the display in the native resolution which would be 1680x1050.
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November 24th, 2012 12:00
Find the manual for your monitor at this site: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19?c=us&s=dhs&cs=19&l=en. This will tell you how to configure your monitor using the On Screen Display(OSD). I have had my Dell for over 3 years and within the last 2 weeks it would go into Power Save mode and I could not get it out of that mode without shutting down the CPU. I download an update driver but that still did not work. I set all my power controls to never and that did not work. Also when I did download the updated driver, for whatever reason the Catalyst Control Centre would not open so I did a restore back to when it did work however in order to do so I removed the digital cable and used the VGA cable and by doing so it did not go into power save mode so I was now able to get full function of my computer. However, I did not like the display for VGA(analog mode), so I swithched back to the DVI cable inputs which is white. Whenever switching cables it is important to ensure that you CPU and monitor are turned off. Neverthess, after switching back I did further notice that when I started up the computer or switched between users that the display would show a little black box that read "digital input" yet prior to all this happening the black box would read "Auto Detect:Digital Input" so I tried to figure out how to get that back. I found the manual for my monitor and there are 4 settings for the monitor right on the monitor: Analog Input, Auto Input, Digital Input and HDMI Input, so I set it to Auto Input and everything works perfectly now. I even use all my power settings for sleep, hibernate, etc. and have no problem waking it up from power save mode or sleep. However, when I change it back to Digital Input the problem reoccurs, so it is important to use the Auto Input, at least, in my case. As a further I have set my monitor refresh rate to 75 HZ and display to 1024x768. Repost if setting the display to Auto Input works for you so that I will know if this solution works in other cases. Thanks.
On the front and I would say almost every monitor there is a set of buttons at the bottom and one of those buttons should let you cycle through the various input options as I mentioned above. Again, set it on the one that says "Auto". Further, ensure you have only one input cable into your monitor, whether it is VGA, DVI, HDMI or Displayport. Repost back it this does or does not work.