Well, yeah, I know some problems can be fixed. My monitor stopped working yesterday while I was at a concert. What I was told by one of my brothers was that he was playing a game on it, then stopped to watch tv for a few hours (What an eventful life he leads, huh). That’s when he says it happened. It recieves power just fine, the cable isn’t shorted out, and everything appears normal…except nothing displays. It doesn’t change the display at all.
Now, I don’t know if it is under warranty anymore, even if we could find the warranty slip. Should I open it myself and look for burnt fuses or wires, bad connections and such? Does anybody have an idea what this problem might be and if it could be fixed? I’d really like to troubleshoot this; I don’t want to have to go buy a new monitor just yet.
Don’t open it. You could get killed poking around.
If you couls switch monitors with someone and be sure he didn’t change the resolution it would be nice.
Most users lie about what happened, to me, anyway.
I don’t know about brothers.
I’ve had what you describe happen when the resoultion and color on the PC was set higher than the monitor will go.
The way I fix it is to put a monitor that can handle it on the PC and set the resolution and color down.
It also works to pull the graphics card and put in a less sophisticated one.
Yeah, I’m still alive. I took your advice to heart; I don’t wanna die looking at something.
Trying to switch the resolution down doesn’t work. It doesn’t display anything when it is turned on. I’m thinking at best it might just be a worn fuse that can be fixed, and at worst the whole tube is shot and I’ll have to buy a new one.
Any idea how much fixing a minor problem could be?
I’ve heard guys do general monitor repair for $50.00. That is probably fuse/power supply stuff, not the tube.
I have myself run the resolution up to where the monitor shows nothing at all, switched monitors, run the res back down and all is ok. Try the brightness control and switching monitors before you take it to the shop.
Good luck.
What type of monitor?, who made it? How old is it? There is a date on the back of it, or better be.
Other than that, unplug it from wall & computer for a minute, plug back into wall not to computer, turn on, turn on brightness all the way see if you see anything, can be a video card.
I don’t even know what type of monitor or computer it is.sigh
As a purely anecodatal observation I have not had the best luck with monitor “fixes” unless the factory is refurbishing the unit.
IMO unless it’s a fairly expensive unit (say 19" or above) it’s most often not worth fixing as component and labor ( and shipping) costs in servicing monitors can often make the wisdom of the repair versus replace decision questionable. In addition, monitor performance typically degrades to some extent over time so a new unit is better than a “fixed” unit. Finally even if it’s “fixed” shipping (if required) a monitor in a less than perfect box can throw it out of whack all over again.
