Hi,

I just turned on my computer after being away from a few days, and it appears my 30' Dell monitor has decided to break.



When it starts up, it has vertical lines/blurred colours taking up the bottom 1/3rd of the screen. While its on, this is almost always there, but occasionally it flickers into my actual screen and i can move my mouse visibly on that area (and sometimes it just reshows what the upper part of the monitor is showing.



I've checked for loose/damaged connections, tried using a different DVI cable (although to the same PC - i don't have a second one), updated video drivers and reset monitor to factory settings and nothing has fixed it.

Currently now is the best its been since it broke - showing just thin vertical lines over that bottom 1/3rd, but every so often will just revert back to the solid colour/lines in the first pic.



Has my monitor just finally had it (is several years old) or is there anything I can do to try to fix this?

Thanks

Have you had any BSODs? Can be the GPU as well, altho it seems more of a screen issue

No BSOD or anything else unusual other than the monitor blurred lines

Do you have any spare/old monitor around?

I have a second 20' running off the same computer thats fine and the cable from the 30' has been tested on that (so its almost certainly an issue with the monitor)

That being the case, then ya. Monitors at fault