Some considerations;
IF you can see the CRT filiment area and it is dark, forget it.
If it is glowing then;
A new 17 inch monitor about $175.00 to $200.00
A fix gives you a 5+ year old monitor with a limited remaining useful 
life for about $100.00 repair cost or more.
Art 


sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> 
> Hiho, the merrio...
> 
> My formerly fine monitor suffered a minor calamity of unknown cause.
> 
> Symptoms:
> 
> * Video card pumps data fine (I'm in front of a work-spare monitor now
>     on the card).
> * Monitor magic correctly detects:
>   + signal (has a separate LCD display)
>   + cable  (bnc vs dsub)
> * VT switching tricks are tracked according to lcd signal display
> * sudden + complete
> 
> and through this all:
> * No Video Display
> 
> Background:
> * 5.25 years old
> * on UPS, so conditioned power
> * http://www.iiyama.com/product2/8617a.htm
> 
> I'd like to have some kibitzing on whether there's a potential merit
> to fix it, or whether I should just kiss the sucker good bye.
> 
> Is there anyone locally that peers into monitors for a nominal charge?
> I know there's lots of juice in those suckers and I'm not feeling like
> accidentally discharging a large capacitor at the moment.  :-)
> 
> TIA,
> 
> David
> 
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