I purchased a Dell S2340M monitor at Best Buy over the weekend, and yesterday we tried to set it up. It's connecting to my workplace Dell Optiplex 3010, which is < a year old.
Result = nothing. Monitor telling me it cannot detect the box! I previously had an ASUS monitor, and we simply switched the VGA cable from the ASUS to the new Dell monitors...nothing.
We tried plugging the S2340M into a laptop - and that worked, so I'm confident the Dell monitor is OK, and I'm confident that the VGA cable is OK.
The S2340 is pretty basic...there is no "menu" button that allows me to run a self-test. I DO get the "going to sleep in 5 mins" display, and that works (after 5 mins).
So - what the heck am I missing????? How can a Dell monitor not connect to a Dell box????
Thanks, Alison