Ok I started a thread yesterday stating thet my LCD monitor had melted at the base…I thought it was the Liquid Crystal Display and was apparently mistaken…so today I have my camera so here it is:
And Photo 3 is a closer still look.
So whaddaya think? Burned out or melted out Capacitor? Aliens? Lemmings?
Looks like rust to me. You didn’t spill a drink on it did you?
Agreed, that’s rust, or some other form of corrosion/oxidation, most likely due to a liquid spill
I had it up on a monitor stand…no spillage anywhere near it. It’s a bit humind in my office, we’re not the most tightly sealed building in the area…
What about what someone said in the last thread? Brown liquid from a capacitor.
The base itself doesn’t look melted; it looks like something spilled on it.
You didn’t have any ceiling drips that fell into the monitor and messed things up, did you?
Not that I know of no. Like I said it was on a monitor stand…
So there is no way this was an internal meltdown? Something external did this - most likely?
Cats?
Caps don’t have that much liquid in them. A 1/4 teaspoon maybe, and I don’t think it would travel that far.
The way the rust is distributed, it looks like the spill came from inside the case. But for something corrosive to drip down the neck of the stand, traverse the hinge, and collect around the foot - I would think you’d be seeing other signs of it.
You mentioned high humidity in the office. Is it possible that condensation collected inside the stand and dripped down onto its base?
ETA - clarified stuff.
That is a distinct possibility, moisture could have been captured under the stand and corroded the base. However, the corrosian encircles the base as if it were dunked in some liquid, and it was not.
It is certainly a long term problem with moisture. I have seen a monitor die from a mouse peeing into it. I’ve also seen rust like that on metal from mouse pee exposure over time. Any animal in the house is a suspect of that damage. High humidity condensing there could be the problem, or a ceiling leak. Somebody with a drink or watering plants is suspect. You might have a leaky bottle of Windex set on the monitor while you clean. I’m going for the animal pee as my top guess.
I should probably mention this is my work computer and we have no cats…now mice may be a different story all together.
At work they had cats in the office. One cat killed a computer by peeing on it…
Once they opened the office and found a mouse was between the phone cradle and handset. The joke was it tried to call 911.
Or it was on hold with AT&T technical support, and died of boredom.
I know I’ve skated uncomfortably close to this particular brink many times.
I read these at least 5 times before it hit me that Joey P does not have some kind of mutant feline.
Re the OP, my first thought was “cats” too but it seems a little much even for a real pee-er. 
