Acer 24" flatscreen acting weird, help needed

Hi all

I have had my Acer AL2423W 24" flatscreen for about a year and a half now, and I love it. However, it recently started doing the following whenever I turn it on, or whenever it comes out of its hibernation/standby mode:

First, it shows these vertical lines for about 20-30 seconds:


Then, some horizontal lines start showing up, moving up and down the screen at varying speeds for about 20 seconds:


Next, they start to clear up and become more colorful for about 20 seconds:


Finally, this line scrolls from the middle of the screen to the bottom (10 seconds) and the show is over:


After all of this, the monitor is fine until it is turned off or goes into standby mode again.

I looked on the acer site and not surprisingly I couldn't find anything about this. One other thing that may or may not be important is that ever since I got the monitor, it displays a no signal message about once every three months, which I get rid of by turning it on and off. I've tried reconnecting everything, and turning it on and off several times. I'm pretty sure this is a monitor issue, though not positive. Could it have anything to do with any of my other hardware? (I have a Sapphire Radeon X1900 512mb graphics card). Does anyone know what could be causing this problem?

Thanks a lot

Well that's an idea, but I'm really looking for the cause of the problem. I don't really want to do that lol

no one?

I'm getting this problem as well. Definitely a monitor thing, as it does it for 2 different boxes using both inputs. How did you guys get it fixed?

ive got the same monitor and had the same problem, had it for a while now so its not under waruntee, tonight it died completely no picture comes on, so if yours is doing this and you can send it back do it now, mine did it when it was under waruntee and they fixed it, shame its done it again , im not going to buy another acer again if this problem happens allot