I’ve had my computer monitor (an Emeson) for about a year. It has one of those “built-in” automatic shutoff circuits when after being left alone for about 30 minutes, shuts the monitor off. I left the computer monitor on a bit too long and it refuses to restart!!! (I should mention that someone was at my house at that time and she messed around with the monitor (when it didn’t need ANY help from ANYBODY!!!)
She said - “look at this- your monitor is set for HDMI and I think it should be set for PC” (which she attempted to change and I politely said - NO DON’T DO THAT!!! I ONCE SPENT AN HOUR WITH DELL GETTING THAT DONE CORRECTLY!!!
I believe I stopped her from making that change - MAYBE ???
The computer may have gone through an automatic shut off and I cannot get it to restart!!! ARRGGGHHHH!!!
I’d really like to know the secret of restarting it.
ALSO, I would like to disable ALL those auto-time-outs on my monitor. I’m the “Straight Dope Grumpy Old Man™” (I’m 71) and I like the old way of doing things. Example - on another computer monitor, do you know that “flimsy-piece-of-crap-on-off-push-button-switch” that gets placed on all monitors? Mine broke!!! So I replaced it with an old fashioned toggle light switch - which I think is MORE than sufficient to carry me through my untimely demise.
Who knows - many decades from now some EMT’s might find me collapsed over my computer and they’ll say - “Wow poor wolf is gone … but GEEZ that switch looks like it’s brand new!!!” LOL
It occurs to me that your “helpful” friend succeeded in switching the monitor input selection, in which case the monitor wouldn’t wake up for input on the port it’s not listening to.
You may have to fiddle with the input selection to get it back to whatever the video source is connected to.
ETA: And yeah, the specifics of the monitor (like model number) might be helpful.
Thudlow_Boink
I have my computer / printer / Internet link all on a multi-switched extension cord. I tried physically switching off the monitor and was unsuccessful.
gnoitall
Yeah THAT’s the kind of problem I’m dealing with.
As I’ve said, THIS is the kind of thing that REALLY REALLY REALLY upsets me with modern computers. (ARRGGGHHHH!!!) Back in the Sperry-Univac days a computer failed to work because it wasn’t plugged in! Now, it seems you have to hunt down the routing protocols, etc. etc. etc.
DAMN that is frustrating!!!
Well, I was a systems programmer on Sperry-Univacs and there were a lot of things that could go wrong beyond “not plugged in”, but you had systems people to take care of that. For a PC, you are the "systems people*.
Yes, I’ll admit I should have entered the model number but I didn’t. You know why?
Back in the Sperry/Univac IBM 360 days you could look at a compter from another ROOM and read its model number.
But now they sqush it all together with LOTS of information that 99.9999999% of the people DON’T need!!
Anyway I took the monitor from the other room and I’m looking at that multi-informational label.
Even though it’s an Emerson it is made by the Funai Corporation Torrance CA 90501
MODEL Number LE220EM3
Isn’t that a catchy name??? NO
pjd - how would I restore the factory settings - I’m assuming they would NOT make it easy and have a factory reset button on it — oh NO!!!
jnglmassiv
It barely has any indication it is working.
There are three power lights for it Menu / Source / and the POWER indicator (shown by a circle with that thin notch at the top.)
So when I try to press one of the buttons which just usually blinks then disappears then the other buttons do the same thing (OR FAIL to do the same thing.)
The manual I just looked at tells me that this is technically an HDTV television. Do you still have the remote? You should be able to select input with that even if the multifunction button on the device itself is borked.
The only suggestion which comes to mind, based on the prior line of discussion (“helpful friend”), would be to try moving the cable plugged into the TV from one HDMI port to another to see if the selected input was one of those. And if you have an old-school VGA cable, try running from the computer to the VGA input ("PC Input Jack) as well, in the off chance the helpul friend helpfully succeeded in switxhing the input selector to that.
I can’t find any way to restore factory settings in the manual … but it does
show where the control buttons are (page 10). You should be able
to change the input source there if you can’t find the remote.
Yeah, I would a) Make sure the computer is on and b) keep hitting the source button, waiting a few seconds between each press to see if a pictures comes up.
I was using a 4K TV as a monitor, and often did not get any video at all when rebooting the computer. it was a matter of the computer not believing there was a monitor attached. I tried all sorts of things. The problem got worse when I got a fancy video card.
Reboot with the monitor off or on? Reboot unattached, then plug in the monitor? Switch HDMI ports? Try a different computer?(Or are you using yourphone for this discussion?) Have you tried VGA input?
On my monitor, the button on the backside for on-off is actually a joystick giving me up-down-left-right functions too.
Get a universal remote and try setting it for your TV?
page 10 of the manual says control panel button 3 is “menu” although not quite the same model?
usually the menu gives options to set these settings using channel for left-right and menu itself for “enter”
