GTFouts
02-05-08, 03:11 PM
I have had my new 30" monitor for 3 days now. The HP LP3065 30" flat wide-screen monitor. I am totally sick to my stomach on how sad this engineering is and what a waste of $1300.00.
IMHO, All ATI card user should stay VERY FAR away from this monitor. The video will NOT turn on until windows loads the monitor drivers, which means about 5 seconds before the destop first shows up. You can forget about looking at your bios, going into the F8 menu, or just watching the screen to verify all the numbers look good while its starting up. What a ridiculous way to engineer a monitor.
After hours of first of all, trying to get the HP support people to understand that I was calling about a monitor and not a computer, and then second, getting someone who actually knew HP made a monitor, was so pathetic and so un-nerving that I will NEVER EVER look at another HP product again in my life. When I finally did get some who knew about this monitor, they had to keep putting me on hold to go ask a tech all the questions, and I was not impressed with many of his answers. "The monitor is supposed to work like that" What a CROCK!! NO monitor works like that, at least none that I know of in my life and I am 48 years old and have been into computers since C-64!
Finally I got a call from some guy at HP who informed me that, and I quote,
HP "This is a known issue with various video cards."
me "Let me guess, ATI cards"
HP "Yes, thats right, some ATI cards will not display initial video. Its a bios issue on the cards."
me "How can it be a bios issue on the cards when they show initial video on both of my old monitors just fine?"
HP "Well, I don't know. You need to find updated bios for you video cards that might address this issue. It has on past cards"
me "You want me to find updtaed bios for my 2 brand new 3870 cards and my X1950XTX cards? These cards are only DVI cards and are made for displays just like this."
HP "I don't know what else to tell you."
I almost hit the floor! Unbelievable! As an OC'r, not being able to go into your bios is well, impossible! Hell, as a normal user as well! What about safe mode or the command prompt? Who would even conceive of such a thing? Say, let's make a monitor that doesnt work right with 1 of the 2 giants of video cards today! I cant even begin to express my disgust at all this.
I dont even want to say this, but I will. After windows turns on the monitor, it works like a charm, though I think the red is a bit too pink for my taste. Not a bad pixel on it that I can find. Fits on the desktop, without the speaker attachment at 19 1/2". If your like me and have a desk with overheads, its the only 30" monitor that gets low enough to fit under them with its stand. Tis the main reason I chose it. Plus the writeups all looked good enough. But No-where was it ever mentioned that ATI cards have a problem. Not in any reviews or in any site descriptions that I saw.
So, IMHO, I warn all of you ATI users......DON'T PRESS THAT BUY BUTTON!
IMHO, All ATI card user should stay VERY FAR away from this monitor. The video will NOT turn on until windows loads the monitor drivers, which means about 5 seconds before the destop first shows up. You can forget about looking at your bios, going into the F8 menu, or just watching the screen to verify all the numbers look good while its starting up. What a ridiculous way to engineer a monitor.
After hours of first of all, trying to get the HP support people to understand that I was calling about a monitor and not a computer, and then second, getting someone who actually knew HP made a monitor, was so pathetic and so un-nerving that I will NEVER EVER look at another HP product again in my life. When I finally did get some who knew about this monitor, they had to keep putting me on hold to go ask a tech all the questions, and I was not impressed with many of his answers. "The monitor is supposed to work like that" What a CROCK!! NO monitor works like that, at least none that I know of in my life and I am 48 years old and have been into computers since C-64!
Finally I got a call from some guy at HP who informed me that, and I quote,
HP "This is a known issue with various video cards."
me "Let me guess, ATI cards"
HP "Yes, thats right, some ATI cards will not display initial video. Its a bios issue on the cards."
me "How can it be a bios issue on the cards when they show initial video on both of my old monitors just fine?"
HP "Well, I don't know. You need to find updated bios for you video cards that might address this issue. It has on past cards"
me "You want me to find updtaed bios for my 2 brand new 3870 cards and my X1950XTX cards? These cards are only DVI cards and are made for displays just like this."
HP "I don't know what else to tell you."
I almost hit the floor! Unbelievable! As an OC'r, not being able to go into your bios is well, impossible! Hell, as a normal user as well! What about safe mode or the command prompt? Who would even conceive of such a thing? Say, let's make a monitor that doesnt work right with 1 of the 2 giants of video cards today! I cant even begin to express my disgust at all this.
I dont even want to say this, but I will. After windows turns on the monitor, it works like a charm, though I think the red is a bit too pink for my taste. Not a bad pixel on it that I can find. Fits on the desktop, without the speaker attachment at 19 1/2". If your like me and have a desk with overheads, its the only 30" monitor that gets low enough to fit under them with its stand. Tis the main reason I chose it. Plus the writeups all looked good enough. But No-where was it ever mentioned that ATI cards have a problem. Not in any reviews or in any site descriptions that I saw.
So, IMHO, I warn all of you ATI users......DON'T PRESS THAT BUY BUTTON!