External monitor Lenovo Q27-20H display issues

I recently purchased a 27" Lenovo Q27-20H monitor for my MacBook Air M2 laptop (brand new) and I've been having problems from time to time with vertical stripes forming on the monitor (such annealed, interrupted stripes with a diameter of say 0.4cm) and subsequent minor flickering of the monitor (not across the board). It happens relatively randomly, or until now I haven't been able to detect any specific cause. Sometimes I'm on my laptom for x hours and nothing, and sometimes the streaks appear out of nowhere after a short period of time and disappear after some intervention or some time. It happened to me a few times when the saver was on, often when I have some video/clip on yt running, however it is really hard to identify, but mostly it happens when playing some video, or at this moment the problem most often arises (so maybe fresh rate/colour problems, idk...). When the stripes appear to a significant extent, i.e. more visible and the screen breaks like this, often even after minimizing a window, its "rest" remains on the desktop, i.e. maybe 5-10% transparent balance/imprint of a certain part of the browser or explorer. I have 2 USB-C ports on my Mac, originally I ran the original HDMI cable to the USB hub and the USB-C to the Mac. After that, I tried and am still trying a DP cable from a colleague (DP monitor set to DP 1.4) directly connected to the USB-C Mac and the problem still happens. I also tried going through the monitor settings, trying to turn off/on various elements (HDR, Dynamic brightness, etc.), I also downloaded some official application for managing the monitor device, and of course I went through the monitor settings itself in the system configuration and still no change. Overall, the monitor is functional in 85% of the way, it's not that the transfer doesn't work outright and there was a specific error repeatedly, caused by bad connectivity, etc. Maybe I could still try a game to test the data transfer properly. Anyway, this is my first monitor, so I'd like to get some advice before I start trying and solving things myself based on some information.





MacBook Air, macOS 14.3

Posted on Feb 24, 2024 04:23 AM

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Posted on Mar 13, 2024 02:57 AM

After running the display for a couple of weeks I got the same issue having it connected to MacBook Pro M1. And it appeared on the running screen saver.


None of the changing different settings worked. Considering to send the display back.

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Mar 13, 2024 02:47 PM in response to Yungstifi

https://www.lenovo.com/pk/en/monitors/Q27h-20


27" monitor, 2560x1440 pixel resolution, with a USB-C (DisplayPort) input, two HDMI inputs, and a DisplayPort v1.4 input. I wouldn't think that the Mac would have trouble driving it.


My suspicion would be some fault with the monitor, especially as you have tried multiple connection methods – but if you have access to another monitor, you could test the M2 MacBook Air with it.

Mar 13, 2024 01:08 PM in response to egemes

That's what I was worried about, but I have to say one thing. I read somewhere that I should check frequency and adaptive refresh rate. I feel like after I turned on adaptive refresh rate I don't have the problem. Although the brightness on my monitor decreases and I can't change it to higher value, but the problem has probably disappeared (I'm 90% sure, I need longer use to determine whether to 100%)...

Apr 14, 2024 10:09 AM in response to Yungstifi

Wow. Glad it's not just me.


I am having the same issues using 3 of these Lenovo Q27H-20 monitors with my Mac Studio M1 Max and a PC running Windows.


I have tried all of the Lenovo monitor settings and all of the OS monitor settings with no luck.


I first noticed this when playing X Plane. But now I get it on the normal OS desktop view on my Mac Studio.


I am considering sending back all 3 monitors to Lenovo because this happens on Mac OS and Windows when connecting the computer to the monitor using USB-C or HDMI.


My eyes get very sore after 20 seconds looking at this flickering with headaches that last a few hours after this.


The features of the monitor are good. But it seems to have a fault or is not compatible with Silicon Macs.

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