Bought refurbished LCD having problems

lkbutler13

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Hey everyone, I had bought 2 identical refurbished monitors ( Samsung SyncMaster S27B350) off a website and I have been having problems since. The first hours since I had bought them they worked fine and then they both began to periodically turn black. All I needed to do was to turn it all the way off and turn it back on for it to work again until it had happened again. This was happening to both the monitors around at about the same time. I looked up some solutions and had updated my GPU (ATI Radeon HD 7850) driver and had no luck with it and even tried messing with some of the settings in the Catalyst center. One of the other solutions that is my temporary fix is to have the brightness setting turned all the same down which allows them to stay lit for longer. Many sites said I may need to repair the LCD inverters and it will work but I am just curious if there is anyone out there that is able to let me know any other possible solutions. I hope to hear from someone soon, thank you all in advance.
 

tigerg

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Feb 24, 2013
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If I had this problem I would return the monitors. You shouldn't have to do crazy tricks or some kind of repair on your own to get them to work. It sounds like whoever "refurbished" them did a very poor job. I would ask for two more or for a full refund and get something else.