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PC monitor turns on for two seconds then goes black, repair or replace?

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  • 23-01-2014 12:11am
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    TheDoc
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    Hi all,

    Nightmare. Middle of a raid and my monitor goes black. Long story short had a google and it appears to be a capacitor or inverter that is gone. It is a lovely 22inch Lg monitor taht I'd be sick if I lost it.

    But sadly it looks like a hardware fault.

    Just wondering if anyone knows a good shout on monitor repairs, or is it expensive to a point of just going to buy a new one?


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    johndoe99
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    have you access to another PC or a laptop that you can connect the monitor to, so as to rule out your graphics card.


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    TheDoc
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    johndoe99 wrote: »
    have you access to another PC or a laptop that you can connect the monitor to, so as to rule out your graphics card.

    I've a dual monitor setup, using second one as we speak, definitely not GFX card.

    To be fair who am I kidding, 7 year old monitor. I've picked out a BENQ one I'll pickup if this doesnt magically fix itself over night


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    claystevens
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    Just replace. Which BenQ do you choose?


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    TheDoc
    Registered Users Posts: 23,137 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Yeah ordered last night from Pixmania. 24 inch monitor with good reviews all round, ill post the link when I get home but did indepth reading and review searching and it got good reviews all round


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    anotherposter
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭anotherposter


    TheDoc wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Nightmare. Middle of a raid and my monitor goes black. Long story short had a google and it appears to be a capacitor or inverter that is gone. It is a lovely 22inch Lg monitor taht I'd be sick if I lost it.

    But sadly it looks like a hardware fault.

    Just wondering if anyone knows a good shout on monitor repairs, or is it expensive to a point of just going to buy a new one?

    the invertor is blown... depending on how old the monitor is it might be cheaper by a new one

    i have 2 monitors like that


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