I posted this at another forum the other day but figured I would share it here as well.
Hey fellas,
Just wanted to chime in. I got this monitor(FPD2185W) from CC almost 2 weeks ago. I got home and was in love. The image quality is exelent, 2nd to none. However, after hooking it up I noticed the USB hub was not working. So after around a week I took it back and got another one.
Well, my second one worked great until I got home from work today. I turned it on and after a few minutes the gateway image software poped up and my resolution dropped. So I tried to reset it and no go, it would not change. A reboot did nothing but keep the DVI from working at all. I tried my mac-mini and nothing (no dvi).
I hooked my PC back up via VGA and it worked great.
So I did some research, found this forum ect... called gateway and the guy(woodrow) told me my monitor was wack. I told him this was my 2nd one and he told me he would try 1 more as he believes 3 strikes and you are out.
So I packed it back up and took it back to CC and questioned them about their lemon policy ect.. I ended up getting the 80 buck 2 year warranty from them so I can bring it back everytime it dies. If I have to return it 100 times over the next 2 years I will. I have never felt so relieved after spending 80 bucks on an extended warranty. At least I am covered now( I never buy those things).
I love the monitor, no dead pixels from what I can see on any of them.
However, I am on my 3rd monitor. Lets see how it goes. DVI is working good now and I am NOT going to install that gateway software.
BD
ah - I forgot to add the OSD version on both of them(dunno about the first) is 1.11
- if anyone every hears anything "official" from gateway about this issue, please let us know.
