problem with monitor blacking out (when it's cold)

(Rob) wrote in message om...
I have a 17" Relysis TE786 monitor about 4 years old. A couple of
weeks ago it started blacking out. Seeminly randomly, the power would
stay on, but the screen would just go black. It started happening
around the same time I got my new speakers. Someone suggested to me
that I had my speakers too close to the monitor, and the magnetic
fields from the speakers are causing the monitor to act strangly. I've
since disconnected the speakers, and used the Degauss function on the
monitor. That seemed to work, and my monitor was back to normal for a
day.

When I turned the monitor on this morning, it made that humming sound
followed by a clicking sound that it usually makes, but the picture I
got was a white screen with three large coloured rectangles in the
center: red, green and blue. Now the monitor switches back and forth
between these coloured rectangles, and a black screen. Once in a while
the proper picture will come on, but it doesn't stay very long. A few
seconds at most, then it flashed back to black or the rectangles. Each
time it switches between the various screens, it makes that hum and
click sound that it used to make when it started up.

Is my monitor fried? What's the problem, and can it be repaired?
Thanks,
Rob

I've now noticed that I have this problem when the air conditioning is
on. If I turn the a/c off and let the monitor warm up, it goes back to
normal. It never used to black out in colder temperatures, so why now
all of the sudden? Is there a cold-sensitive part in my monitor that's
likely causing this? Something I can replace or have repaired?

Thanks,
Rob

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I've now noticed that I have this problem when the air conditioning
is
on. If I turn the a/c off and let the monitor warm up, it goes back
to
normal. It never used to black out in colder temperatures, so why
now
all of the sudden? Is there a cold-sensitive part in my monitor
that's
likely causing this? Something I can replace or have repaired?

Any repaire will cost MORE than a new monitor.

"Some One" wrote in message news:
snip

I've now noticed that I have this problem when the air conditioning is
on. If I turn the a/c off and let the monitor warm up, it goes back to
normal. It never used to black out in colder temperatures, so why now
all of the sudden? Is there a cold-sensitive part in my monitor that's
likely causing this? Something I can replace or have repaired?

Any repaire will cost MORE than a new monitor.

It will cost more than two or three hundred dollars to repair a
monitor?! That doesn't seem right.

On 16 Aug 2003 16:21:05 -0700, (Rob) wrote:

(Rob) wrote in message om...
I have a 17" Relysis TE786 monitor about 4 years old. A couple of
weeks ago it started blacking out. Seeminly randomly, the power would
stay on, but the screen would just go black. It started happening
around the same time I got my new speakers. Someone suggested to me
that I had my speakers too close to the monitor, and the magnetic
fields from the speakers are causing the monitor to act strangly. I've
since disconnected the speakers, and used the Degauss function on the
monitor. That seemed to work, and my monitor was back to normal for a
day.

When I turned the monitor on this morning, it made that humming sound
followed by a clicking sound that it usually makes, but the picture I
got was a white screen with three large coloured rectangles in the
center: red, green and blue. Now the monitor switches back and forth
between these coloured rectangles, and a black screen. Once in a while
the proper picture will come on, but it doesn't stay very long. A few
seconds at most, then it flashed back to black or the rectangles. Each
time it switches between the various screens, it makes that hum and
click sound that it used to make when it started up.

Is my monitor fried? What's the problem, and can it be repaired?
Thanks,
Rob

I've now noticed that I have this problem when the air conditioning is
on. If I turn the a/c off and let the monitor warm up, it goes back to
normal. It never used to black out in colder temperatures, so why now
all of the sudden? Is there a cold-sensitive part in my monitor that's
likely causing this? Something I can replace or have repaired?

Thanks,
Rob

Because it's displaying either black or the rectangles, I'm wondering
if the monitor is fine, if the PC is the problem. Many monitors will
display those rectangles of color when there's no video signal getting
to it. When you next see this happening, leave the monitor on but
turn off the PC. Then turn the PC back on... the monitor's "state"
has then been unchanged, but the PC has been... If you then see the
display work it would tend to implicate the PC, not the monitor.


Dave

On 17 Aug 2003 09:21:55 -0700, (Rob) wrote:

"Some One" wrote in message news:
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I've now noticed that I have this problem when the air conditioning is
on. If I turn the a/c off and let the monitor warm up, it goes back to
normal. It never used to black out in colder temperatures, so why now
all of the sudden? Is there a cold-sensitive part in my monitor that's
likely causing this? Something I can replace or have repaired?

Any repaire will cost MORE than a new monitor.

It will cost more than two or three hundred dollars to repair a
monitor?! That doesn't seem right.


A 17" Monitor is less than $120 dropped at your front door!


and yes a repair is likely more!
"Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets,
but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.
To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet;
one need only own a good shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules,
any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree--and there will be one"

Aldo Leopold