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IronDoge
Nov 6, 2008

Like the other folks said, try replacing the capacitors. I had a couples issues with one of my older monitors I've been using since 2008. It would just randomly turn off or have colored lines running through it sometimes. It also made a high-pitched whine. Turns out the capacitors in the power supply were shot. You could clearly see the bulging on the end tops of all of them. Bought myself a soldering kit and all the required capacitors and had it repaired myself for really cheap. It's been a couple years since that fix and it's still going

If you've done soldering before, there's no reason not to try it. Otherwise consider whether or not you feel like investing the time to learn how to solder and figuring out how to pull apart the monitor without damaging it.

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