Well, I have a Sony flatscreen LCD monitor, and it's been great for the past 4 years or so.
A year ago, I got my laptop, and have spent since then on that, as it is better and faster than my desktop. However, I have had to send my laptop off, so I decided to try and get my old desktop working again.
I plugged in the monitor, turned it on and nothing happened.
Well, the screen lit up, as in the backlight turned on. However, nothing appeared. I checked the cables, tried a different cable etc, and then I noticed something. Even when your monitor doesn't recieve signal, you can still press the 'menu' button on the side of it and it'll pop up. It doesn't need to be connected to a computer for this to happen.
Basically, the menu button doesn't work. Nothing does.
I sighed and turned it off, labling it as broken. However, it does have speakers built into it (Which this old monitor doesn't) so I turned on the Sony monitor to act as my speakers.
Lo and behold, the monitor worked perfectly. The Menu button worked, and when I plugged it in it worked fine.
Then it flashed black, and then came back. I shrugged and kept playing. Then it flashed again, and again, and then died.
I have yet to get it working again.
In the time between it working fine (When I used it) and now it was carried up into the attic by my dad and used for our server, could it have been knocked about on the way?
Any thoughts gratefully recieved, this monitor I'm forced to use weighs about the same as a bull elephant and is utterly crap.
give it a good slap in the side and see if that does it. Otherwise looks like you need a new one. They are not worth fixing. Craig's list tends to have a few for cheap from time to time.
Have you thought about something slightly less technical? I had the same problem with an old dvd player, plugged it in after storage and nuthin... well i'm a 'grab a tool n' fix it' kinda guy so i opened it up....
It was full of spider webs (which by the way, conduct electricity, much to my chagrin) dusted it well, blew it out with an airhose...worked fine.
' Wrote:give it a good slap in the side and see if that does it. Otherwise looks like you need a new one. They are not worth fixing. Craig's list tends to have a few for cheap from time to time.
this is how i fix my screen, it does something strange every other day where it losses color and goes jittery.
Slap it couple times fixes it right away
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My screen got the same problem.
It went black,then it turned normal again,and after couple a times,it died.(No,no hitting helped,no matter how hard I tried :P)
Just get it to professional to get it fixed.
That's what I did.