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P2212Hb, need to verify if possibly dying
Hello,
Last year, I had to replace an older Dell 22" monitor I bought in 2009 along with a then brand new Dell Studio XPS 435T desktop system, in 2019, had to replace the XPS desktop and bought a 9020 SFF used, refurbished, and plugged in my old monitor into it, worked fine until last year when it began to have power up issues. The monitor was connected to an old Nvidia GT 610 with VGA and DVI-D ports. The secondary monitor was a similar vintage Dell 20" VGA only and only 720 and it worked fine and only the larger 22" monitor had power up issues. Finally, it failed to power up at all, and had to run the smaller monitor as the sole one until I can replace it.
I found a used 22" Dell workstation monitor second hand at the second hand computer place I patronize and it was 1080, like the one that had died, and was $40, worked fantastically.
Brought it home and connected it and it instantly turned on and the image looked really good, bright etc. Monitor is the P2212Hb from January 2013 and is TFT/LED backlight and now the whites are a touch blue in cast, and even all the way up, not hugely bright, image looks dull and contrast between dark scenes is poor and when running the dark mode in Windows 11 has me barely able to see any tabs I'm on (the gray tab in Firefox is barely extinguishable from the other black tabs) and when viewing dark video on YouTube, like a tornado footage that is taken at sundown/dusk/night can barely make out details.
Otherwise, monitor functions OK, is this a sign of a monitor nearing EOL? I do plan on upgrading to a newer system capable of 4K video editing and thus a new monitor capable of that. Currently, I run this current Dell monitor with a replacement SFF Dell (3050), 7th gen i5 and the Nvidia GT1030 and Windows 11, and it still seems dim compared to the ONN monitor I bought to replace the 720 monitor (it's bright and punchy, but a VA panel).
Here is the photo of monitor in question. The right monitor is the older Dell, just for comparison.
Thank you.
DELL-Chris M
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June 18th, 2024 14:34
An 11 year old 2013 monitor was end of life 6 years ago in 2018. If you see same issues when running its stand alone BID (Built-in Diagnostics) page 49, it is faulty. If it passes, the fault is with the video cabling, PC, or ports.
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June 18th, 2024 16:17
Yeah, I knew it's likely not made, but was wondering if the apparent dimness was the monitor physically dying, and whether I should go ahead and replace, or have it "limp along" for a bit longer, or not. I'm thinking, not. I was not thinking long term with it anyway as I needed a working monitor inexpensively. The ONN monitor I have as a secondary was $80 at Walmart, 1080 and 22" to replace the older Dell 20", 720 as it had HDMI, which I needed anyway for the 1030 graphics card.
I did just run the diagnostic, initially when I got the all white screen, it was very, very dull looking and quite dim but the other colors looked alright, not great, but they were consistent all across the screen as far as I can see, and when I got back to the white screen, it looked somewhat better, but still not super great. Afterwords, I ran the brightness from about 75% to 100%, made little difference. The contrast is at roughly 60-65%.
I do plan on upgrading the older Dell 3050 SFF desktop, running a 7th gen i5 processor for one I am in the processing of research on what to get, based on the 13th gen i7, capable of 4K editing so at this time, am looking at the S2722QC IPS monitor you sell as the replacement.
Thanks.
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