My monitor has died

[Phil Skayhan]

It was 9 years old.

At 8:51 PM EST I was browsing through the Fox News thread, enjoying the friendly discourse when I came across the latest post by Ultra. Suddenly the screen began to flicker and then there was a loud popping noise. Dropping to one knee I began to pray to God to save my monitor, I explained to the Almighty that it had done no harm to anyone and had only brought joy into my life; first in the form of X-Wing and then later in the beauty that is Internet Porn. I begged him not to take it away from me.

Alas, the only answer I received was further pops as buzzing noises from the monitor and the sad smell of burning components. So I did what any merciful person would do in the same situation....I pulled the plug.

It is now buried in a place of honor in the yard. I dropped it upon the head of the rotting corpse of Darkstar and refilled the grave.

From this experience I have come to realize three great truths
1) There is no God
2) There are no computer stores open after 9 PM
3) Month old dead people smell.

Ultra! I shall have my vengence

[Hyperion]

lol. the flyback transformer got a microfracture or other breach in the casing allowing the HV to arc into the other components. unless it took out the proc in the monitor, it's just a matter of pulling the top off, finding the fried components, replacing them, locating the casing failure and sealing it with silicone, then putting it back together and it'll work for a good few years more.

[phongn]

lol. the flyback transformer got a microfracture or other breach in the casing allowing the HV to arc into the other components. unless it took out the proc in the monitor, it's just a matter of pulling the top off, finding the fried components, replacing them, locating the casing failure and sealing it with silicone, then putting it back together and it'll work for a good few years more.

Assuming you know what you're doing (since them capacitors store a lot of energy).

[phongn]

I still have a 20" MultiSync 5D monitor that's working (a bit blurry now and I can't find the convergence controls) from 1989. In storage now (I have a nicer monitor) but it works great

[TrailerParkJawa]

I had a 17" monitor go kaput on the 4th of July. I learned that

1) There are not many computer places open on the 4th.
2) Those that are, tend to be expensive retail shops.

I paid a lot more than I should have for a little 14" monitor as a replacement.
Thats what I get for my impatience.

[Phil Skayhan]

Yeah, it lasted long enough. I'll just use my laptop till I pick up a new one this weekend. Maybe one of those slim ones mmmmmm.

[Larz]

My home moniter has an annoying little slight wave like water running down the moniter front for the first 10-30 minutes of running, then it clears up, any idea of what that is, or what thats a sign of?(its not an 80's moniter, but it has several years behind it and has seen several hard drives, motherboards, and CPU's as well as operating systems go [think I had it back when I ran windows 3.11, not sure though])

[Kosh_The_Vorlon]

It was 9 years old.

At 8:51 PM EST I was browsing through the Fox News thread, enjoying the friendly discourse when I came across the latest post by Ultra. Suddenly the screen began to flicker and then there was a loud popping noise. Dropping to one knee I began to pray to God to save my monitor, I explained to the Almighty that it had done no harm to anyone and had only brought joy into my life; first in the form of X-Wing and then later in the beauty that is Internet Porn. I begged him not to take it away from me.

Alas, the only answer I received was further pops as buzzing noises from the monitor and the sad smell of burning components. So I did what any merciful person would do in the same situation....I pulled the plug.

It is now buried in a place of honor in the yard. I dropped it upon the head of the rotting corpse of Darkstar and refilled the grave.

From this experience I have come to realize three great truths
1) There is no God
2) There are no computer stores open after 9 PM
3) Month old dead people smell.

Ultra! I shall have my vengence

So, if your monitor is dead..How are you typing this?

[Vertigo1]

Ya know, this reminds me. I've been meaning to pop the cover on my monitor and give it a good blast of air. Dust has a tendency to get in the most insane of places...

[Mr Bean]

So, if your monitor is dead..How are you typing this?

Memory..... I know this sites IP in my sleep I could see me doing it

[Vertigo1]

Bean....thats just fucking sad man.

*blasts Bean with a can of air and runs*

[Phil Skayhan]

So, if your monitor is dead..How are you typing this?

Laptop

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

So, if your monitor is dead..How are you typing this?

Laptop

Look on the bright side. Go on a killing spree in anger and get a shiny new moniter