Monitor suddenly dead

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:44:28PM -0500, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> I have been using a Neovo F-419 for almost 2 year without any 
> issue.
> 
> This morning, without any warning, the monitor failed to wake up 
> from sleep, is stayed dark. Actually, when I woke up my 
> computer's monitors, I saw a flash of the correct display 
> content, then the monitor went dark again. I tried several 
> things and eventually trying it without connected to the 
> computer at all (Neovo will display an error box in that case), 
> but it it consistently flashing up for a moment then going dark. 
> Seems like the backlight failed to start.
> 
> So my question:
> 
> 1. Is there anything can be done with this monitor? If it can be 
> repaired, any suggestion where?
> 
> 2. Any advice on what causing this? Any suggestion on what 
> should I do to prevent this happening again in the future? The 
> monitor do connect through a surge protector - albeit an old 
> one. As far as I know there is no electric discontinuity last 
> night: all electronic with clocks stays on, and the computer - 
> which stays on overnight and connected to the same surge 
> protector - still OK.

Well I don't know what could do it.  Sometimes things just fail.
Looking at the specs on that monitor, it appears to have a 3 year
warrenty, so perhaps the simple answer is to go get it fixed and perhaps
they can tell you what was wrong with it.

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Len Sorensen
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