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Answer» HELP!!!! I have an LCD monitor that is a little over a YEAR old and the last few weeks it just goes black without warning. Sometimes you can hard shut down the computer and it will come back on and sometimes it won't. Anyone got any suggestions? PS. Took it into Best Buy GEEK Squad, they of course couldn't find anything wrong with it.Can you test it on another computer to verify the Geek Squad results? Does your computer use onboard video or an add-on video card?I have the same problem. I replaced the power adapter 'brick'. Same result. I have tested the monitor with a different computer. Same result. My monitor is an Acer 1714B. My computer is a stand-alone generic desksktop and uses a video card and Windows XP. I took the monitor in to a LOCAL electronics service tech and left a nonrefundable $37.50 deposit. After keeping the monitor for 2 weeks, he SAID "The 'main board' is bad. It will be too expensive to replace." Hate to scrap it. Any suggestions for my next MOVE? wlittlejReplace the 'mainboard' yourself? Is that what he said, by the way? "Mainboard"? Quote from: wlittlej on May 02, 2007, 12:21:04 PM My computer is a stand-alone generic desksktop and uses a video card and Windows XP. I took the monitor in to a local electronics service tech and left a nonrefundable $37.50 deposit. After keeping the monitor for 2 weeks, he said "The 'main board' is bad. It will be too expensive to replace." So, the service tech did not see your computer, only your monitor, right? And yet, he's telling you the mainboard, i.e. motherboard in your computer, needs to be replaced? Does that make any sense to you? To me, it sure does not.soybean: I mis-quoted the tech. He said the "board" is bad - meaning the board in the monitor, not my computer. And no, he never saw my computer. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for responding and helping me to clarify. wlittlej Quote from: wlittlej on May 02, 2007, 03:29:56 PM soybean: I mis-quoted the tech. He said the "board" is bad - meaning the board in the monitor, not my computer. And no, he never saw my computer. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for responding and helping me to clarify. wlittlej You could probably replace it yourself. But I'd make use of factory warranty assuming you still have any. Raptor: Alas, monitor is out of warranty. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. wlittlej Quote from: wlittlej on May 02, 2007, 07:06:12 PM Raptor: Alas, monitor is out of warranty. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. wlittlej Then you should look into replacing the module yourself. Considering the monitor is already considered 'broken'. This may somewhat help: Backlight fix

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HELP!!!! I have an LCD monitor that is a little over a YEAR old and the last few weeks it just goes black without warning. Sometimes you can hard shut down the computer and it will come back on and sometimes it won't. Anyone got any suggestions?

PS. Took it into Best Buy GEEK Squad, they of course couldn't find anything wrong with it.Can you test it on another computer to verify the Geek Squad results? Does your computer use onboard video or an add-on video card?I have the same problem. I replaced the power adapter 'brick'. Same result. I have tested the monitor with a different computer. Same result.
My monitor is an Acer 1714B.
My computer is a stand-alone generic desksktop and uses a video card and Windows XP.
I took the monitor in to a LOCAL electronics service tech and left a nonrefundable $37.50 deposit. After keeping the monitor for 2 weeks, he SAID "The 'main board' is bad. It will be too expensive to replace."

Hate to scrap it. Any suggestions for my next MOVE?

wlittlejReplace the 'mainboard' yourself?

Is that what he said, by the way? "Mainboard"?
Quote from: wlittlej on May 02, 2007, 12:21:04 PM

My computer is a stand-alone generic desksktop and uses a video card and Windows XP.
I took the monitor in to a local electronics service tech and left a nonrefundable $37.50 deposit. After keeping the monitor for 2 weeks, he said "The 'main board' is bad. It will be too expensive to replace."

So, the service tech did not see your computer, only your monitor, right? And yet, he's telling you the mainboard, i.e. motherboard in your computer, needs to be replaced? Does that make any sense to you? To me, it sure does not.soybean:
I mis-quoted the tech. He said the "board" is bad - meaning the board in the monitor, not my computer. And no, he never saw my computer. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for responding and helping me to clarify.
wlittlej Quote from: wlittlej on May 02, 2007, 03:29:56 PM

soybean:
I mis-quoted the tech. He said the "board" is bad - meaning the board in the monitor, not my computer. And no, he never saw my computer. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for responding and helping me to clarify.
wlittlej

You could probably replace it yourself. But I'd make use of factory warranty assuming you still have any. Raptor:
Alas, monitor is out of warranty. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
wlittlej Quote from: wlittlej on May 02, 2007, 07:06:12 PM

Raptor:
Alas, monitor is out of warranty. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
wlittlej

Then you should look into replacing the module yourself. Considering the monitor is already considered 'broken'.

This may somewhat help: Backlight fix

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