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Dead monitor, any hope??

  • 15-12-2004 12:24am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭


    Last Saturday my Gateway VX700 monitor bit the dust on me. While using my PC the screen went black followed by an extremely loud bang. It didn't blow any fuses or trip any switches in my home. Even the plug fuse was intact. The date on the back is September 1998.

    I do computer repairs, but monitor repairs are totally beyond me. The green LED on the front doesn't even light up anymore when I turn it on so I assume that the PSU is faulty. It has given some bother over the last year or so where it would occasionally make a spark sound, but this only ever happened twice. So I knew this day would come, but didn't know when.
    This is the best monitor I've ever had and I'm wondering would it be at all possible to repair it. Or is it a lost cause now that Gateway have pulled out of Europe?


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  • #2
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Doubt youd get another but try ebay.
    Someone may be gettin rid of an old one.
    If i was u id invest in a tft, if u can afford one theyre great space savers.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I've been looking at some 17" TFTs, my boss is trying to flog me a Relisys one but I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them (once heard that they won't cover pixel defects until FIFTEEN pixels have failed!). My only problem with 17" TFTs is the 5:4 aspect ratio (1280x1024) rather than the 4:3 1280x960.

    Still, I'd prefer 12-24V going through my monitor than the 28,000 volts that went through the CRT on the Gateway. :eek:


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