M782 Monitor Problems

  I had this problem after installing new video card drivers. Eventually, after trying many things, I disconnected the monitor from the PC (after switching both off) on reconnecting and switching on, windows XP reinstalled the monitor using the default monitor driver. The problem stopped. After installing the new video drivers I had used the Dell inf file. This seemed to be causing the problem. I hope this helps.

Regards

John

There are other folks who are having similar problems. Please see http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_monitor&message.id=17933 for one of the threads.

To me it seems that the Dell M782p monitors have defective firmware. I have spent over 25 hours trying to figure out the problem. Dell support was useless. They sent me three different monitors (all M782p made in either Mexico or China in September/October 2002). I tried the monitors on different PCs with Windows XP and Windows 98 and different video card combinations. The monitors had problems getting identified on faster machines with 512 MB of RAM. They worked fine on a Pentium 133/Windows 98/96MB RAM/S3 2MB video machine.

To get around the issue of not being identified, you may want to turn on the monitor about 15 seconds before turning on the PC. Windows should identify the monitor as Dell M782p or a Plug and Play monitor. If you get default monitor, Windows is not recognizing the monitor.

Whew I thought it was just me.  When we received our system 11 months ago, the display shut off for 1 to 2 seconds as described above. Contacted Dell support,  useless answer, obviously sticking to script.  Solved the problem by reseting the video card. No probs in last 11 months, although my son had it happen last night. Will try reseating card again.

Dim 4500

My monitor blanks out infrequently.One day last week

it was blanking out.It has been good since.I bought

it  11/02.I'd have to say it is a dud,and Dell dropped

the Ball here. I also had to have hard   

 drive replaced at six months.

Lucky I checked this community forum.  My Dell PC is just 9 months old and it just started to flicker and black out for a few seconds.  It only happens once in a while though.  It stopped for 2 weeks then does it again.  I hate it ... it  flickers when I'm playing online games.  Thought it was just my PC.  I was planning to contact Dell Support, but after reading these posts I'm not so confident that they will be able to solve my problem.  It's interesting that you reseted the video card.  I'm going to try that.  I just installed new RAM too, and you have to remove the AGP video card before the RAM can be installed ... maybe it is the video card.  It's hard to reset the card into slot though with that "clip" on the bottom.  Anyways ... going to try resetting the video card.  I'll will post my results.  Thanks for the tip!

we have two m782 monitors at work and i have one at home ,the work monitors are 1 and two yrs old my home monitor is 11 months .so far i haven't had any problems

Lots of other people are having this problem too. I've started a new thread at:

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_monitor&message.id=26613

Update: Monitor still acts up infrequently. Acted -up a few days ago, today it's ok.  Maybe a Reboot helps.