Black1ce
03-14-2008, 12:44 AM
Last night I went to bed watching an episode of Battlestar Galactica
This morning when i woke up my computer monitor constantly cycled between turning off and turning off.
I tried to use the reset buttons on the monitor itself but it did nothing. Obviously, I can't use the screen to try out different settings on my desktop.
Is the computer monitor fried or what?
Black1ce
03-14-2008, 12:46 AM
It's a 4 year old Dell LCD
[MD5]Hash
03-14-2008, 01:17 AM
Yeah, when they power cycle like that is what happens when the AC adapter, which is pretty much always built into LCD monitors has pretty much fried itself, it's charging up to power on the monitor but it overloads or shorts out causing it to trip itself off, then keeps cycling like that.
I wouldn't mess with it, if it's that old it's most definitely out of warranty, get a new one.
iNVAR
03-14-2008, 06:05 AM
so your computer itself is actually on? you're positive about that? do you have another monitor?
CED/Esmeralda
03-14-2008, 01:02 PM
From google, might be insightful: Monitror keeps cycling through on-off - FixYa (http://www.fixya.com/support/t121502-monitror_keeps_cycling_of f)
Vlasic
03-17-2008, 03:21 PM
Hash;12917401']Yeah, when they power cycle like that is what happens when the AC adapter, which is pretty much always built into LCD monitors has pretty much fried itself, it's charging up to power on the monitor but it overloads or shorts out causing it to trip itself off, then keeps cycling like that.
I wouldn't mess with it, if it's that old it's most definitely out of warranty, get a new one.
Actually, it's caused by the same issue that plagues cheap system boards - swollen caps.
Here we actually replace the caps and the monitors run like new. :D