It appears my Liquid LCD monitor has melted a hole in it's stand....

Factual Questions
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So this morning I came into work and turned my machine on, began checking emails and left for a a brief meeting. I came back and noticed the screensaver was not on…just a black screen. I moved the mouse and the screen didn’t come back, what did come back was a grayish screen with colored thin lined running plaid over the entire monitor. After looking at the mess for a few seconds I noticed blotchy areas forming all over it, then they dissappeared and the monitotr appeared to go back to the gray and colored plaid I was looking at.

I have this megavison monitor I purchsed from Tiger Direct a couple years ago.

I went down to the store room and grabbed one of the old yellowing gateway monitors off the shelf and am now looking at a bent screen as I type this. :frowning:

As for the acid coming from it, I turned the flat screen monitor over and noticed on the stand there was a acid-like burn right under the monitor section. It has literally eaten away at the base of this thing…Has anyone ever seen this? What could it be? Under nearly a 5inch diameter acidic tye burn is showing…

Any suggestions on a newer, LCD under $200 that I can get? Recommendations?

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Check Tiger Direct for a new monitor, they usually have decent deals. I was able to buy a 22" LCD through another vendor a few months ago, so $200 should buy you something decent.

Department of Redundancy Department checking in: “LCD = Liquid Crystal Display”

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Henceforth we shall call it an LCD Display to comply with the laws of the DRD Department.

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I had the impression he was remarking on the LCD screen becoming liquid in a fashion not involving liquid crystals.

There’s not much in an LCD screen that generates that much heat. IANAEE, but I’m guessing the voltage regulator for the backlight freaked out and vented its new aggression on the neighbors.

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Capacitors can leak a corrosive brown liquid.

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Or, maybe, he meant that the LCD monitor could quickly be converted to cash, so he was referring to it as a Liquid Asset.

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I recently bought an Acer AL1916W to replace a flat-panel display that died after 8 years of use. It’s less than $200 and the display quality is excellent. I was surprised at how far prices had dropped for flat-panel displays.

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Ok, I know you guys and gals are eons past my electrical engineering acumen, but there is a brown corrosive stain eating away at the base of the monitor…seeing as it was resting on a glass desk top, what else am I supposed to think - other than something came from the liquid crystal display and corroded the crap out of the monitor…

Well it could have been the lemmings I guess.

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I’d love to see a photo…