I'm not familiar with your video card, but if it is ATI based check out the below I posted weeks ago. In addition to the below I was getting the blank screen too.
For the last 4 days I have been enjoying my 2001FP. The combination of the 2001FP and my Radeon 9700 PRO looks absolutely awesome. However, on the fifth day something drastically changed for the worst. Upon boot at the XP desktop my 2001FP was filled with noise and distortion. I couldn’t believe it things had been going so well. I rebooted only to find the same screen corruption and noise. The corruption looked like what a TV does when someone plugs in a hairdryer on the same electrical circuit. Only that was not the case here. I decided to shut the system down and let it sit for a while. That didn’t help. When I came back the next day the same thing happened. I began to think that maybe there was a kink in the DVI cable. Nope! Not the case. Just when I was about at my wits end and was going to call tech support I decided to check the driver settings. Under the advanced settings options tab there is a check box named, "Reduce DVI frequency on high resolution displays and Alternate DVI operational mode". I thought I remembered both of those boxes being checked when I first connected the 2001FP.So, I unchecked them and then checked them back. WaLa the corruption and distortion went away and has not been back. I have no idea how the boxes became unchecked, but somehow they did. I have a 2.8 Ghz P4, 533 Mhz FSB, 512 MB RAM and a Asus P4PE motherboard. This system with a Radeon 9700 Pro video card will not display properly on the 2001FP without those 2 boxes checked in the driver control panel.
DELL are you listening? This will undoubtedly come up again with someone else. I lucked out and found the problem, but odds are someone else will just return the monitor thinking it had gone bad. I wasn’t far from thinking that myself. However, all is well that ends well. I’m back to loving my 2001FP again.
I'll try out your option later today and see if that fixes my issue. Did that fix your blank screen problem after a reboot in addition to the noise and distortion you were also getting?
I too have an ATI based video card as well. I don't remember having those options you unchecked, but I'll check again to see if I have them. I'll post my results later today. Thanks for your help.
Yes, checking those boxes fixed the noise/distortion as well as booting to a blank screen. On my particular system I know it comes down to having those boxes checked/unchecked. Why? Because unchecking those boxes makes all the problems return. Sometimes immediately, but definitly upon next boot.
Check out this thread http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_monitor&message.id=32293 . It seems DVI-connected LCD's (Dell's and others) with systems with ATi Radeon 9600 & 9800 series cards using the Catalyst drivers after 3.7 sometimes go into like a standby mode (i.e., a blank screen) on bootup. Nobody seems to know why (ATi sez its working on it) but it's been suggested that, for some reason, the DVI signal prevents the drivers from loading. I've gone back to the 3.7's and its completely solved the problem for me.
Joe Average
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March 16th, 2004 09:00
I'm not familiar with your video card, but if it is ATI based check out the below I posted weeks ago. In addition to the below I was getting the blank screen too.
For the last 4 days I have been enjoying my 2001FP. The combination of the 2001FP and my Radeon 9700 PRO looks absolutely awesome. However, on the fifth day something drastically changed for the worst. Upon boot at the XP desktop my 2001FP was filled with noise and distortion. I couldn’t believe it things had been going so well. I rebooted only to find the same screen corruption and noise. The corruption looked like what a TV does when someone plugs in a hairdryer on the same electrical circuit. Only that was not the case here. I decided to shut the system down and let it sit for a while. That didn’t help. When I came back the next day the same thing happened. I began to think that maybe there was a kink in the DVI cable. Nope! Not the case. Just when I was about at my wits end and was going to call tech support I decided to check the driver settings. Under the advanced settings options tab there is a check box named, "Reduce DVI frequency on high resolution displays and Alternate DVI operational mode". I thought I remembered both of those boxes being checked when I first connected the 2001FP. So, I unchecked them and then checked them back. WaLa the corruption and distortion went away and has not been back. I have no idea how the boxes became unchecked, but somehow they did. I have a 2.8 Ghz P4, 533 Mhz FSB, 512 MB RAM and a Asus P4PE motherboard. This system with a Radeon 9700 Pro video card will not display properly on the 2001FP without those 2 boxes checked in the driver control panel.
DELL are you listening? This will undoubtedly come up again with someone else. I lucked out and found the problem, but odds are someone else will just return the monitor thinking it had gone bad. I wasn’t far from thinking that myself. However, all is well that ends well. I’m back to loving my 2001FP again.
yaothewaverider
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March 16th, 2004 14:00
I'll try out your option later today and see if that fixes my issue. Did that fix your blank screen problem after a reboot in addition to the noise and distortion you were also getting?
I too have an ATI based video card as well. I don't remember having those options you unchecked, but I'll check again to see if I have them. I'll post my results later today. Thanks for your help.
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Joe Average
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March 16th, 2004 15:00
ortleeb
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March 16th, 2004 19:00
Joe & yaothewaverider:
Check out this thread http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=dim_monitor&message.id=32293 . It seems DVI-connected LCD's (Dell's and others) with systems with ATi Radeon 9600 & 9800 series cards using the Catalyst drivers after 3.7 sometimes go into like a standby mode (i.e., a blank screen) on bootup. Nobody seems to know why (ATi sez its working on it) but it's been suggested that, for some reason, the DVI signal prevents the drivers from loading. I've gone back to the 3.7's and its completely solved the problem for me.