I wish my monitor hadn't just died.....

[Sven]

Hhhmmmm, Just thought I'd see if anyone's had a similar thing happen to them or if what I describe below sounds ominously terminal.

My monitor (Ilyama visionmaster 1451 CRT) was in standby mode, I moved the mouse and it came back on ok but approx 10 seconds later it went completely dead (no power led on at all). I've put 4 different 5amp fuses in the plug but still no joy. I've tried a different cable....... still zip. I've noticed that when power switch on monitor is in what I presume is the on position I can hear a ticking soundcoming from the monitor and the power led flashes faintly, and when the switch is in the off position this stops... I've checked the power socket and all is ok.

Has anyone had a similar thing happen or does this sound as bad as I think it is, i.e. one large 19" paper weight

Better start saving for a nice new CRT me thinks.......

Cheers

[Taz]

Sorryto say but it sounds like its toast. I've seen dimly flickering/flashing power LED's on busted monitors at work many times.

Are you absolutely sure your graphics card is working okay?

[Sven]

Yep seems ok, fan is running ok on it.

Have swapped current card (Radeon 9800 pro 128mb) for my back-up Radeon 9200 and still no joy. Even tried it with onboard graphics and nothing. I guess the true test will be tomorrow am when I can get my spare monitor hooked up to the pc. As soon as it happened I had that sinking feeling.

Hey ho. May give IIyama a try as have only had monitor 1.5yrs and should have 3yr warranty on it.

Ta

[da_ging]

sounds like its dead as ive had the ticking and flashing before, but as its iiyama it has a 3 year warranty , just email them or ring them up and they will swap it out within a few days