pan069 wrote:

When it's cold (not used for a while) and I power it on, the first 5 or so minutes everything seems to be fine.

Any time there are issues like this I'm thinking leaky/bad capacitors. Although your symptoms are a bit different than what I've experienced before, bad caps leading to intermittent errors on LCD displays is a very common fault and it's probably a good idea to open the monitor and do a visual inspection of the caps as a start.

Have you tried hooking it up to another computer? It could be a bad video card.

tegrady wrote:

Have you tried hooking it up to another computer? It could be a bad video card.

My other monitors work fine on the same system. This display has the same behaviour hooked up to different cards. Definitly a problem with the display.

einr wrote:

Any time there are issues like this I'm thinking leaky/bad capacitors.

I'd like to check out the caps but the display is difficult to open. I can remove the plastic outer casing relatively easily but there is a lot of shielding inside.

I thought I'd ask here if it even worth looking at caps at all, maybe its just totally doomed.

Interestingly though, when I load the image I originally posted into Gimp and I invert the colors I get a pretty good looking results. I.e. all the correct color components seem to be there:

I guess you are right in ditching the monitor. To me it looks like a 5:4, these cost next to nothing.

Yeah, trying to get my hands on a good quality (and affordable) 1600x1200, but no luck yet...

not caps, its mechanical - rise in temperature makes something expand and stop conducting, can be ribbon connector, can be cracked solder joint, can be in the glass

retardware wrote:

I guess you are right in ditching the monitor. To me it looks like a 5:4, these cost next to nothing.

Yes. If you are in the United States, most Goodwill stores have tons of these 5:4 monitors for sale for about $8 to $12 on average.

I actually did find a 1600 x 1200 monitor, Dell 2000FP, at my local Goodwill. They are uncommon though.