Lainaus:

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Hey guys,

I've got a few interesting tidbits. First of all, I want to say that I've been running around the internet for a day or 2 now, gathering as much information as I could about, well, everything. I've posted all the information that I know in the following thread (some of the information is wrong, as I found out later, but a lot of it is spot on): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=509815&page=5 Start reading from the second post down(Post #42), as that is the one that contains all of the information.

That being said, here's my story; I bought my 226BW a little over a week ago from Dell. I was buying my laptop from there as well, and they gave me a discount on the monitor. I was ecstatic, of course. When I got the monitor, I was certainly a little dissapointed; the colors were all washed out. I figured that could be fixed easily enough, though, so I didn't worry. Then I tried to play some games, and I encountered the halo effect described in one of the Behardware articles; I decided I was going to RMA the monitor.

Then, on Ubuntuforums, another user that was buying the same monitor asked me for advice on it. At that time, I decided to do some digging and discovered all this information. I immediately went about checking my panel for identification; the sticker on the the back was devoid of any A/S/C markings. I decided to check the hidden service menu, thinking for sure that it would be in there. Nope. The only useful things that were in the service menu and on the back sticker of the monitor:
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Hidden Menu
Version: M-ME22W0BDA-1003 (the latest revision, I believe)
Checksum: C329

Sticker on back:
Made in Tijuana, Mexico (SAMEX)
Manufactured July 2007

So as you can see, it's the very latest. I grew increasingly frustrated with it and tried to decide what I was going to do. "Should I RMA and get a replacement? Or a full blown refund and just buy something else?" Then, I read the Behardware on the C panel, and I knew that's the one that I had; the one with the mismanaged RTA overdrive. Just to make sure, I did follow the instructions as per this article, and opened it up to check; yup, Chi Mei Electronics, M220Z1. I even took pictures.

However, the sticker wasn't in the same spot as described in your article. After you take off the silver shield and slide the panel over, all you see is some crap ass sticker with no pertinent info on it. I don't want to post it here in case it is a unique number that can be tracked. But the important sticker was instead on the left side of monitor, under the panel, where the panel can only be lifted a little bit. It was very hard to get a good look at it, so I had to resort to sticking a camera in there and flashing a picture. But, it did confirm that I had a C panel. Whether the placement of the sticker is coincidental or done intentionally to make it harder to read, I don't know.

But I do know that this is all pretty infuriating. Samsung claims that they've stopped shipping A and C panels, but I have one made in July, with the most recent version number that I've seen on the internet. So have they really stopped? Or are they just deceptively shipping unmarked monitors so that people can't have solid evidence when they complain?

Anyways, I would like your advice on something. I'm planning on returning the monitor, of course, since it is clearly defective. I think that I should get a refund from Dell and buy another one from newegg. My logic is this; Dell probably doesn't sell many monitors that aren't Dell branded, so they're more likely to have A and C panels in stock. Newegg probably serves at least 100 orders per day for this very same monitor, so they have a greater chance of having the absolute latest monitors from Samsung, which are supposedly the S panel ones. Do you agree with that? What are your thoughts?

Thanks.

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