Comments on: Pimp my 24" Dell widescreen monitor

By: myuu

myuu — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:50:56 +0000

The comment about the Service Tag being printed right after the manufacturing date is not all correct. Mine is just a 3-digit code and was not accepted by Dell’s support site.

By: ksadi

ksadi — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:32:33 +0000

how does the sd card option work? once the card is in, what happens? can you use the monitor as a glorified digital picture frame or do slide shows?

By: KrazyWISH

KrazyWISH — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:14:32 +0000

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By: Allan

Allan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:40:06 +0000

Can anyone advise what the TV viewing is like on the Dell? Is It any good full screen? I want a good picture for TV, should I look at buying a Samsung LCD display and running it as a PC screen running from my laptop when I need to?

Have had no problems with card reader except SD sort of jammed sometimes. I got angry with it so slammed one in and a flako of plasti fell out of the slot and the problem is gone – works fine now.

By: David

David — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:09:16 +0000

I have the same problem, the cf slot does not work, its crap. anybody figured this oout yet

By: Trent

Trent — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:48:25 +0000

Monitor is good but my problem is getitng the CF slot to work, any help would be great, I read up on itand people say it should auto run when you slide it in. It doesn’t do that, I have the latest driver for my mionitor. Anything else I should do or need?

By: Mark H

Mark H — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:27:42 +0000

Playing audio through the g5 you will need something like audio in (find it on vertracker.com) so that you can play the audio in. though the speakers. I also had to think it out a bit

By: Leroy Vargas

Leroy Vargas — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:28:06 +0000

Service Tag not applicable to Dell monitors??? You got it wrong!

I just discovered where the hell is the Service Tag on the 2405FPW monster display. It is a lonely, not-so-obvious 5-digit (XX-XXX) number that lies on the bottom-lefthand corner of the back, right after the manufacture date. To make things interesting, it’s not labeled “Service Tag” (actually, it has no label at all!), which makes finding it a real headache, especially when anyone expected more digits for a Service Tag (or at least expected the number to follow an explicit “Service Tag” label). The serial number (also unlabeled on the 2405FPW) lies on the bottom-righthand corner, and it’s a 20-digit alphanumeric sequence (yes, a longer number, er, string) either above or below the barcode. Thus, you can distinguish between the Service Tag and the Serial #: the Service Tag is the shortest number, while the Serial # is the longest one. Hope this will help you better in the future.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:22:28 +0000

I have two different systems with two 2405fpw’s each. The quick fix to the blurry monitor problem on a vga interface is to power cycle the monitor. The real fix is to use the DVI-D interface.

I have just one of these 4 monitors on a vga (D-Sub) interface, and I have the same problem. When starting up, sometimes it gets blurry (does not sync).

You can fix it by power cycling the monitor (easiest), sometimes by a reboot (may depend on video card and driver), and reliably by changing the color depth to 16 and back to 32 (this works I think because it causes a reset from the video card, as would for instance changing the primary monitor or other setting that would cause the monitor to go black).

A small price to pay for such a beautiful monitor, but I have to admit I am going to go get myself a card with dual DVI-D because it is annoying.

By: Corey

Corey — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:59:09 +0000

Jerry,

this is a nice story and exactly where i find myself today. I am just trying to see if the monitor I got is new or refurbished and I cannot find a service tag nor find anyone through the voiceprompts to talk to.

did you have success? have you figured out the maze? please let us know.