Hi all,
I bought a second hand Dell E151FPP monitor. Hooked it up to a working EZcool computer with MS7309 motherboard and XP software. Result was monitor went straight to standby mode and all buttons on keyboard inoperative. When I removed the Dell monitor and put back the LG monitor it too went to standby.
I hooked the screen up to a working Dell 4600 and it did exactly the same thing.
I hooked it up to a Dell 4500 same result.
To get theE151FPP monitor working I went into screen settings on one of my last computers, ( aToshiba 8100m) and set the resolution as low as possible. It worked.
To fix the Dell 4500 and 4600 I removed the CMOS battery, (dont forget to remove and replace battery jumper) and ram and fired the computer up until it beeped. I then connected the origional monitor, ram and battery and everything was ok.
To fix the EZcool I tried the same process but it didn't work so I removed the two gig video card and put in a low spec video card. The monitor fired up. I then put back the two gig video card and everything was fine.
I can only assume the Dell E151FPP monitor was asking the computers for settings which it was unable to comply with. But who knows I just fix things.