alman84

Thanks for the replies! We've already ordered new monitors, but we're keeping the old monitors to see if we can fix them anyway. I popped open one of the monitors about a week ago, but I didn't really do much investigative work - just re-connected the ribbons and wires. That capacitor info is kind of disheartening - of course, I should expect something like that from Dell We've got a soldering iron here in the office, and if we find that's the problem, replacing them will of course be easy. Again, thanks for the suggestions.

Nothing - I actually plugged the monitor in on my tool workbench (away from the other monitor) and still got the stripes, but only after plugging in a VGA cable. I'm guessing that means there's something wrong with the VGA internals, but taking the whole thing apart didn't help. I just 2x checked all connections and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, but I've still got the stripe. We ordered some new monitors so I think we're just gonna throw it away. It was worth a try - it was a nice monitor. Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Found this http://www.fixya.com/support/t139781-pink_stripe Gonna give that a try, anyone taken apart a Dell monitor before?

Took me a while to find it, but I'm downloading and trying it now EDIT: I tried that, but it didn't work. That would make sense because I get the stripe even when there's no input (like if I switch the monitor input to S-Video, the screen is black but the stripe is still there even though there's no source)

Hey all, The office I work in has had a few Dell monitors start doing the exact same thing. I took a picture to show: Any idea? I can only think of it being something like a faulty decoder. I know it's not the computer or cable as I've tried switching both to no avail, plus it's happened on three different monitors (the exact same model - Dell 2100 FPV). I'm kind of thinking we're just going to have to buy new ones (they're not under warranty anymore), but thought I'd see if anyone knew what was wrong and if it was repairable. Thanks

I can verify this. I was running out of HD space on some older machines that I put Vista on and stripping the languages works wonders.