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I'm still around when I can be. I mostly moved to another house and no phone or internet. So Hello all for now.

Well, one day after not using a system for a few weeks or so I found the Lcd monitor would not work, not finding input signal. This is an Acer Widescreen and I was using it on the analog cable. First thing I tried was another monitor on that system, then that monitor on another system. Yep, it was the monitor not working.

Now I figure maybe cable problem? I only have 1 system with DVI output so I pulled my Acer Lcd fullscreen and stuck the widescreen on the DVI cable and now the widescreen works on DVI but still not on analog!
BUT my fullscreen also works on the analog cable that was being used on the widescreen.
So it would seem that the analog input on the widescreen LCD has gone bad while just sitting unused but it still works fine on DVI input.
Anyone else ever run into this?

Yes I checked the analog cable several times with the widescreen LCD and it it does not work that way, but the cable is working fine with the fullscreen LCD.

If I understood you, you tried a different VGA cable so it's probably a dead analog input.

However, you MIGHT be able to connect one of those DVI to VGA adapters to the monitor and it may let you connect to a VGA output on a PC with it (you may have a spare one lying around - they come with some video cards). Even though those adapters are meant to convert DVI to VGA from the PC, and you'd be using it in a backwards manner to conver VGA to DVI, this does work with some monitors.

It depends on the monitor - some of them have the capability and some don't.

Otherwise you're stuck with a DVI only monitor.

You might also want to check the warranty on the monitor. Some LCDs have very long warranties. Most people don't realize for instance that most Dell LCD displays have a 3 - 5 year warranty OUTSIDE of the warranty on the PC.

Thanks FP

Yes it should be under warranty for sure, I just bought it this year.
Don't know why the analog input died like that, but now the DVI has died also.
Monitor lights up and shows the Acer logo, then no signal detected screen and goes black. Same thing it did on the analog input.

I had just taken the Abit system to the other house finally.
So I drove all the way back home, 5 mile trip and got my other LCD monitor. Everything was fine for a short time, tonight my PC blew cratch
I stick the PC in another post.

So I wonder why the inputs went bad when the monitor was just sitting there not being used? I mean really not used, we been too busy to mess with the computers much other than this one we use for the internet.