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Thread ID: 47172	2004-07-18 04:57:00	Fuzzy picture and locked OSD on Dell D1025tm monitor	fus1_n (3818)	Press F1

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253223	2004-07-18 04:57:00	Dell D1025tm monitor (Sony CPD200gs) has a fuzzy picture. The keys on the front are locked up. When I press anything but the menu, I get a picture of a key in the lower left corner. The menu will only let me move between two of nine menu choices. How can I unlock it? what is the DAS software? where do you get the DAS software? Help please!	fus1_n (3818)
253224	2004-07-18 06:19:00	From: . pwin98 . com . cn/cing . files/monitor/m010 . htm" target="_blank">www . pwin98 . com . cn Old archive files . . . no longer directly on line perhaps . QUESTION NO . P50702-6: Dell D1025tm monitor (Sony CPD200gs) has a fuzzy picture . The keys on the front are locked up . When I press anything but the menu, I get a picture of a key in the lower left corner . The menu will only let me move between two of nine menu choices . How can I unlock it? Do I need the DAS software to do it? Dell could not find anything about it and the Sony manual does not say anything about locking the menu . ANSWER: The Sony CPD-200GS does have a "Lock" Option in its OSD Menu; perhaps the same procedure is used in your Dell . Press the "Menu" key, use the arrow keys to toggle Up/Down and Left/Right, to select the "Option" Menu (at lower right), and then press "Menu" again . Several Options will appear, including a Key Icon . Toggle up/down to the Key Icon, then use the Left/Right keys to turn it off . Regarding the fuzziness, try going to the "Screen" Menu (upper right), and adjusting the H or V convergence, or the Moire . FURTHER INFO: To change the internal programming, you must use Sony DAS service software, which is run on a PC with an interface consisting of: Adaptor cable, (Sony p/n#1-690-391-21); Interface Unit, (Sony p/n# A-1500-819-A); Connector attachment, (Sony p/n# 3-702-691-01) . Remarkably similar question?	godfather (25)
253225	2004-07-18 06:43:00	Yes. Sorry i couldn't be bothered wording the question myself. I will reword it... Today i started up my computer and noticed the monitor was a bit fuzzy and the brightness and contrast was low. I went to change it but whenever I pressed any button, except the menu, it shows a green key in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. When I go into the menu the the text is all jubeled up and corrupt. I can only go to two of the nine options (exit and ENDE\TALLEO|PTI/) when i go the the ENDE\TALLEO|PTI/ option it comes up with more jumbeled stuff. This monitor has an option to lock the keys, yes but I cannot unlock them because the OSD is F'd. the monitor is about 6 years old. prehaps it just broke. The screen is a Trinitron screen. similar to tha sony one, and has the same OSD as some other sony screens. I think the OSD is just gone bazoodle. (i've always hated Dell) but it was an ok sony screen.	fus1_n (3818)
253226	2005-10-19 02:41:00	My Dell 1025TM monitor just screwed up, in the exact same way as the creator of this message thread. Is there any way out of this problem, since the OSD menu is so confused? Otherwise, it's off to the trash heap with it.	watou (5889)
253227	2005-10-19 02:54:00	Welcome to PF1 Are you saying that your OSD is behaving differently to the example given in the Dell solution, or that you just find the instructions confusing to follow? If you can't access the OSD properly then you are very unlikely to be able to unlock it, so you may be off to your favourite monitor shop via the nearest trash heap. Make sure you power down the monitor before you try again though. Unplug and leave it off for 5-10 minutes then start again. It may have just locked itself out. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
253228	2005-10-19 03:04:00	I searched other forums and tried some of those suggestions until I found the following one, which worked! Date: 28 Apr 2004 14:20:55 From: David van Geyn Subject: Re: Monitor hardware reset Ricardo, I just fixed mine (Dell D1025TM) . I went to the menu (which was all gibberish), selected the lower-right box (since that's the only one I could use), hit the select/enter type button (in between the brightness/contrast buttons) . Then I think I hit the left contrast control button (just on the right side of the enter/select button) . That let me access the menus again . . . Then I held the reset button for a few seconds and the monitor flashed a few times, then the menu was in english again . . . . So if anyone still has this problem, the above steps will work! Thanks for the post in reply, by the way . - watou	watou (5889)
253229	2005-10-19 03:34:00	Interesting. So it wan't "gibberish" at all. It was just in FOREIGN, not English. :D It's not gibberish to those who speak foreign.	Graham L (2)
253230	2005-10-19 04:27:00	Interesting . So it wan't "gibberish" at all . It was just in FOREIGN, not English . :D It's not gibberish to those who speak foreign . But we don't know that for certain, they foreigners could be speaking gibberish behind our backs, or even to our faces, and we wouldn't know . Everyone knows that to make foreigners understand anything, they have to be shouted at . The chap in this article made the mistake of shouting in American, whereas he should have used English . :stare: . recoilmag . com/editorial/foreigners_hear_me . html" target="_blank">www . recoilmag . com	Terry Porritt (14)
253231	2005-10-26 15:44:00	I have the exact problem as 'fus1_n', but the above corrective directions do not work. The menu does not allow me to move from "SI" to "NO" within the lock menu. And it's French, I believe.	joshkelley (5890)
253232	2005-12-02 22:48:00	I have the same problem as fus1_n and joshkelley, and the directions didn't work. I know that there's a lock feature in this monitor, but I had used it before and it is not like this. Additional to the lock, there's a fuzzy picture. When I try to move through the menu, it appears to be corrupt (it seems to show incorrect words in incorrect places, in other languages; I saw japanese and french characters, though I use the menu in Spanish). Please help us. The only things that I can say are that I was restarting the computer and when it changed the resolution, it made a degauss (it always does that when the system changes the mode) and inmediatly appeared the corrupted osd, low contrast and brightness and apparently a different refresh frecuency. Thanks for your answers. P.S.: The menu doesn't allow to unlock, like joshkelley said. I insist it appears to be corrupt. Thanks.	Itzhak (5891)
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