blue bands after 5 months of pg278q use

[bardm]

Hi everybody,

Today after gaming for about an hour, i noticed 2 blue vertical bands (left edge and toward the middle).

I tried power cycling the monitor, rebooting the pc etc...no change. I turned everything off for a few hours and tried reseating the dp cable to my gtx 980 ti and unplugged/plugged the power cable from the brick.

This actually seemed to 'fix' the issue. However, I'm not certain it won't come back. Anyone have any similar issues? I'm concerned my monitor going to slowly die from here...i can't believe with absolutely no recent hardware changes, not touching anything etc, that there could have been a loose connection or something.

If any additional information is needed please let me know...thanks in advanced for any feedback.

[bardm]

Nobody has run into anything similar with this monitor?

[Spoonhandle]

If you go through the forum for a few pages you will see this is a pretty common issue, among many problems with the PG278Q

[bardm]

Spoonhandle wrote:
If you go through the forum for a few pages you will see this is a pretty common issue, among many problems with the PG278Q

Ok...i looked (again) and was not Able to find this particular symptom, only pixel inversion, etc. Would link me a post?

Luckily i have not seen the problem again, but I've only played a few hours since i "fixed" it

[bardm]

Not playing any games or anything, just doing some stuff on the desktop and was using Firefox. No more than an hour or two. Same vertical (blue or yellow, depending on the background color) lines as before, AND I also noticed that there was a little blue glow where my cursor was, and text seemed a bit blurry.

I tried the following and did not resolve the issue:

1. Rebooted (I saw the blue in the corner during POST, which should eliminate driver issues), and shut down/cold booted
2. Powered down the monitor for a minute
3. Tried changing settings in the monitor's settings
4. Tried changing the refresh rate (monitor and in windows)
5. Tried changing the resolution (in Windows) ("bands" did not move)

The only thing that seemed to fix the issue, while it was reproducible and the PC was powered on, was to unplug the power from the monitor (both monitor from brick and brick from power source - figured I would try both)...monitor turned right back on the issue has once again, been "resolved".

Should I be concerned at this point? This has happened twice...not sure if the power brick may be overheating or what (it felt warm, but no warmer than it feels right now after being on for ~30 minutes). I'm pretty sure this is not a DP cable issue or an issue with my video card, but something specific to my ROG Swift (power brick or the monitor itself).

Looking for suggestions, please, from anyone who has seen anything similar, or can provide some suggestions on completely eliminating this problem (it's a difficult one as it has only popped up twice, and I don't know what triggers it to happen).

Thanks all

[bardm]

bardm wrote:
Not playing any games or anything, just doing some stuff on the desktop and was using Firefox. No more than an hour or two. Same vertical (blue or yellow, depending on the background color) lines as before, AND I also noticed that there was a little blue glow where my cursor was, and text seemed a bit blurry.

I tried the following and did not resolve the issue:

1. Rebooted (I saw the blue in the corner during POST, which should eliminate driver issues), and shut down/cold booted
2. Powered down the monitor for a minute
3. Tried changing settings in the monitor's settings
4. Tried changing the refresh rate (monitor and in windows)
5. Tried changing the resolution (in Windows) ("bands" did not move)

The only thing that seemed to fix the issue, while it was reproducible and the PC was powered on, was to unplug the power from the monitor (both monitor from brick and brick from power source - figured I would try both)...monitor turned right back on the issue has once again, been "resolved".

Should I be concerned at this point? This has happened twice...not sure if the power brick may be overheating or what (it felt warm, but no warmer than it feels right now after being on for ~30 minutes). I'm pretty sure this is not a DP cable issue or an issue with my video card, but something specific to my ROG Swift (power brick or the monitor itself).

Looking for suggestions, please, from anyone who has seen anything similar, or can provide some suggestions on completely eliminating this problem (it's a difficult one as it has only popped up twice, and I don't know what triggers it to happen).

Thanks all

This has happened a handful more times, always "fixed" by unplugging the power brick for a few minutes. Is this a common issue? Is my monitor eventually going to develop permanent vertical blue and yellow lines?

[bardm]

Nobody else having this issue? The newer rog models don't have the same problem?

[Crashcourse316]

bardm wrote:
Nobody else having this issue? The newer rog models don't have the same problem?

Get a new Cable to rule out the cable going bad. Also if a new cable doesn't work or if you want to try this first, switch the port that you are using on your GPU. try running HDMI to the monitor, you'll have to suffer with a standard 60fps until you determine if the different output worked or not. If it does work your narrowed down to either your original cable going bad or the port on the GPU. If the issue still happens its most likely the Monitor.