Wassup wit dat? Flat panels don’t just up and quit...?
We’ve got a thousand of ‘em around the company, lots of different brands from super cheap to super ‘spensive and seriously... probably only a handfull that have ever had to be replaced because they just outright failed. The old CRT’s failed at a far higher rate.
That just bites.
Dunno, man. But mine, Hair’s and my boss’s monitors were all the same model 19” Viewsonic, and they all failed. Maybe they got a bad batch of something.
But we got a 19” CRT freebie from someone on Craigslist that will work fine for the interim.
I am uber-happy with my new Acer 22” widescreen, though.
This one is blurry like my old one. :~)
A few years back, when I was working short-term contracts to do computer deployments, me and another guy were setting up new Dell computers with 19" LCD monitors in a chain of pharmacies. I had just taken a monitor out of its box, set it up, turned it on, and moved on to the next one when the other guy gave a shout and pointed over my shoulder. I turned around to see the monitor I had just set up with a thick curl of smoke coming out of the top edge of the casing. It was making an interesting fizzing noise, too. I jumped at it and pulled the power cord loose.
Luckily, we had a spare monitor to finish the deployment.