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MrBiggles
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After trying all suggestions mentioned in a thread about a month ago (APR
2004) and having none work, I finally got my Dell Sony Trinitron (1025TM)
monitor to
work.
I post this here now for future googlers. In fact, I found the solution from
a post in 1999 by doing a google search. Thank god google had the sense to
keep dejanews going.
Here's the technique that finally worked for me. First let me say that
holding down the reset button for two minutes NEVER worked for me.
Also let me list my symptoms:
1) OSD menu garbled.
2) Hitting reset resulted in a green key being shown in the lower left of
the screen.
3) The only menu item available was one in the lower left. When selected it
showed a key with an arrowhead next to it. Hitting any of the brightness and
contrast buttons did nothing.
4) Brightness was very low.
Also, this was progressive problem. At first I could choose all menu items
even though the text was all garbled. After about a month I was locked out
of the menu. I would hit the menu button and I would see the green key. I
think I held the reset button for a while and the menu was enabled again.
Once you get some resembleance of the menu back, you can do the following...
The solution was to enter the menu, select the lower right box (you'll see
the key with arrowhead) then hold down ALL four brightness and contrast
buttons at the same time. I think I might have also hit the middle menu
button at this point too, once all the others were held down. Some text in
the OSD then changed. I then hit the hardware reset button and good things
happened (I could actually read the word "option"). I then hit it one more
time and the monitor reset to factory defaults. I then had to turn it off
and on again to get it to refresh at the selected rate as set in my OS
(winxp).
Hope this helps someone... I was about to give up once I tried all of the
suggestions offered in the APR 2004 thread.
2004) and having none work, I finally got my Dell Sony Trinitron (1025TM)
monitor to
work.
I post this here now for future googlers. In fact, I found the solution from
a post in 1999 by doing a google search. Thank god google had the sense to
keep dejanews going.
Here's the technique that finally worked for me. First let me say that
holding down the reset button for two minutes NEVER worked for me.
Also let me list my symptoms:
1) OSD menu garbled.
2) Hitting reset resulted in a green key being shown in the lower left of
the screen.
3) The only menu item available was one in the lower left. When selected it
showed a key with an arrowhead next to it. Hitting any of the brightness and
contrast buttons did nothing.
4) Brightness was very low.
Also, this was progressive problem. At first I could choose all menu items
even though the text was all garbled. After about a month I was locked out
of the menu. I would hit the menu button and I would see the green key. I
think I held the reset button for a while and the menu was enabled again.
Once you get some resembleance of the menu back, you can do the following...
The solution was to enter the menu, select the lower right box (you'll see
the key with arrowhead) then hold down ALL four brightness and contrast
buttons at the same time. I think I might have also hit the middle menu
button at this point too, once all the others were held down. Some text in
the OSD then changed. I then hit the hardware reset button and good things
happened (I could actually read the word "option"). I then hit it one more
time and the monitor reset to factory defaults. I then had to turn it off
and on again to get it to refresh at the selected rate as set in my OS
(winxp).
Hope this helps someone... I was about to give up once I tried all of the
suggestions offered in the APR 2004 thread.