Philip Pemberton wrote:
> The second call culminated in them basically saying "tough sh*t" -- IIRC their 
> tech's words were "your graphics card isn't sending an EDID when the monitor 
> switches" - but it still shouldn't have frozen the OSD...

EDID = I2C request from the host. It's optional, and is used to request 
information FROM the monitor. If NOT issuing a request locks up the OSD, 
it's a big bad stupid firmware bug. EDID is optional - you ought to be 
able to snip those two wires in the VGA cable and still have it work 
(your OS won't autodetect monitor capabilities and model, but that 
doesn't really matter).

I've never had that sort of a showstopper problem, but I do own a 
ViewSonic that has an interesting (if mostly harmless) glitch: if you 
power it up while holding th select button (which is easy, since the 
buttons are near each other - carelessly hitting select while powering 
it up is common), then the power LED is locked up in standby / DPMS mode 
(yellow color), even though the monitor otherwise works fine. You need 
to turn it off and back on to get it to turn green again.

> Oh, and here's a good one - the Sony SLV-SE720 (and its brothers the 
> SLV-SE727, SLV-SE820, SLV-SX720 and SLV-SX727) has a Service Bulletin out on 
> it. Seems a few parts on the main control board were mounted... backwards. The 
> end result is that the EEPROM data gets scrambled once you turn the VCR off 
> after it's been switched on for a couple of months. That is to say, the keypad 
> function map (which maps the panel switches to functions), function enable 
> flags (which enable things like SmartLink).. and the head calibration data.

Ouch.

-- 
Hector Martin (hector@marcansoft.com)
Public Key: http://www.marcansoft.com/marcan.asc

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