I've contacted the company i bought it from and it's been RMA'ed to them now. I just posted here to see if the problem were something silly which could be fixed from anyones experience, or if it really was faulty.

Will soon see either way.

Hmm something tells me this thing has started to convince itself that it's a 1-liner, why would the second line just die on it's own?

I've been trying the manual override too but no luck.

Sorry also missed another instance in the COM ports, same name but specifies that it's on COM4. I notice when i disconnect and plug in, the bottom line kind of flickers on for a split second and then goes out... could it be trying to act as a one line display for some reason or is it faulty?

I'm currently using on another machine now, to test.. and it's showing up as "matrix orbital mx2/mx3 usb driver".

Same thing happens on this PC, even without any LCD software (just driver).

Hi there,

Switched on my computer today and only the top line of my lcd works, it all lights up and functions though. I tried it in another pc and same, also removed fans/led's which are attached and no different.

P.S. when the unit powers up you can see only the top blocks appear, the bottom ones ...

Hi there,

I purchased the Matrix Orbital MX2 (222) USB Aluminium LCD a few days ago, after reading the manual i see you can attatch various LED's.

I have been trying to get the Rx/Tx status to work with a couple of 5v Green LED's, one flashes and one does nothing which form what i read on this ...