So, my monitor is pretty dead, yes?

2009-09-02 07:43:16

#1

Ioan92: Member; +337|5983

Here's the deal..

My monitor took about an hour to show the fucking picture while the led flashes non stop making a goddamn psychological warfare effect on me.

I had to restart the pc a few times because it took so long to turn the bloody monitor on and it kept going to sleep.. Then it finally got a dull image, but the quality was very good and there are no signs pointing to a GPU related issue, and I can almost guarantee you its not the GPU. After a while, it went to sleep again where I restarted the monitor and it finally sprung back to life, its still on by now...

But I feel if it turn it off for a long period again, I won't be able to turn it up again.

Its a 5 year old Medion MD7317TC, and I'm pretty sure this thing will become a hazardous waste in the next weeks..

And here is the cherry on the cake : I have no money to change the monitor.

2009-09-02 07:46:22

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AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6413|what

If it is 5 years old, it is probably full of dust.

Unless you know what you are doing, don't go poking around in there. CRT monitors can contain some pretty nasty metallic and non-metallic compounds which may be toxic.

2009-09-02 07:46:59

#3

Ioan92: Member; +337|5983

AussieReaper wrote:
If it is 5 years old, it is probably full of dust.

Unless you know what you are doing, don't go poking around in there. CRT monitors can contain some pretty nasty metallic and non-metallic compounds which may be toxic.

LCD*

BTW this has been gradually happening since spring time.

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2009-09-02 07:49:19

#4

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6413|what

Well in that case you wouldn't have the huge heat release grid which lets dust in like most CRT monitors. lol When you said 5 years old I assumed it was an old monitor.

Go fishing for the warranty, you might get lucky and have a 5 year warranty against it dying on you.

2009-09-02 07:51:49

#5

Ioan92: Member; +337|5983

AussieReaper wrote:
Well in that case you wouldn't have the huge heat release grid which lets dust in like most CRT monitors. lol When you said 5 years old I assumed it was an old monitor.

Go fishing for the warranty, you might get lucky and have a 5 year warranty against it dying on you.

I doubt the warranty still works for an American product sold on an American territory which was then moved (I moved, yes) into Europe.

Among with that, i don't even think i even have the papers anymore.

Any ways to use a laptop as a monitor?

2009-09-02 07:54:55

#6

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6714|The Twilight Zone

Ioan92 wrote:
Any ways to use a laptop as a monitor?

No.

https://www.shrani.si/f/3H/7h/45GTw71U/untitled-1.png

2009-09-02 10:22:59

#7

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6842|SE London

Ioan92 wrote:
Any ways to use a laptop as a monitor?

Yes. None of them easy.

2009-09-02 10:35:43

#8

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6458|Winland

It's probably the capacitors. If you know how to solder, it's just to open up and put new ones in.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2009-09-02 10:38:17

#9

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6880|Mhz

Freezer7Pro wrote:
It's probably the capacitors. If you know how to solder, it's just to open up and put new ones in.

QFT

Inverter would be the first place to look, power board second (they're quite often on the same board and just separated by a printed line).

EDIT: crack it open and have a look around for borked caps.

This is the sort of thing you're looking for.

https://gallery.techarena.in/data/519/bad_cap.jpg

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2009-09-02 12:17:10

#10

aimless: Member; +166|6385|Texas

My samsung LCD did this, I opened it up and all the caps looked fine.

2009-09-02 12:32:21

#11

Ioan92: Member; +337|5983

I'm willing to point at dead caps, not blown caps though.

And I can't solder.

2009-09-02 13:38:01

#12

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6458|Winland

Ioan92 wrote:
I'm willing to point at dead caps, not blown caps though.

And I can't solder.

Who mentioned blown caps?

And just take it to the nearest electronics repair shop (Not Geek Squad, but the place that sells old radios), and tell them that you think the capacitors are borked. Don't let them over-charge you, new caps cost under $20.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

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