[PLUG] Is my monitor dying?

Paul Wroe gaussandgo at gmail.com
Tue May 24 04:03:25 UTC 2011


If you unplug the monitors power cord and then plug it back in while the
computer is on does the screen flashing occur?
If it does, I am going to vote for bad ballast capacitors on the monitor.
If it is the capacitors you will see the screen take longer and longer to
get the back light lit as it fails.
If this turns out to be the problem, you need 6 bucks and a soldering iron.
I suppose that I should put an fi in here somewhere because that is a whole
lot of ifs.

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:58 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Mon, 23 May 2011 18:29:49 -0700
> Sean Ellefson <scellef at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >Does the flashing occur when you turn your monitor off and back on
> >again while the session is active?  Is it connected to a KVM?  Is it
> >using VGA or DVI cables?
>
> Turning off and back on again was an easy test. The monitor did not
> flash. Not sure what that means, though.
>
> It is connected with a VGA cable. It does have an HDMI connector,
> but the video out on the motherboard has only a VGA connector.
> I don't know what a KVM is, so probably it is not connected to one.
>
> After turning off and back on again I checked the cable. It was tight,
> but I reseated it just on general principles.
>
> I should have added that it works fine once it stops flashing.
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-Paul



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