• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I finally had to replace mine at over 15 years, maybe even close to 20 years, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a panel failure but one of the boards because it just shut off one day and never came back on. And prices had gone down so much in that time I went out and bought two 27” full HD monitors at Costco for what I think is the same or less than what I paid for that 17” SXGA in the early ’00s.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      18 hours ago

      Good chance an electrolytic cap went bad. A little soldering skill and an off chance of electrocution might solve that.

      LCD companies don’t want you to know this one weird trick.