Hey guys.. 🙁
I'm having a bit of a problem with my monitor. It's a 19" HP M90 monitor, and I use it with a 32MB GeForce2 GTS DDR, Windows XP Professional, 512 MB of SDRAM and an old Slot A Athlon 800 Mhz. It's only about a year old.
A couple months ago it started doing this thing where I would have to press the button to turn it on more than once to get it on. I'd press the button once, the green light turns on, and I see nothing. I turn it off, press it again to turn it on again, and after a little while I'd get some display. It never turned off by itself once it was on, but it took a couple presses of the button to get it working.
Over time it got worse and worse, and I had to press it more and more to get it to work. One day, after an entire hour of pressing it, I gave up and took the cover off. Nothing seemed unusual inside except for a couple gobs of what looked like thermal grease around some big metal things, presumably heatsinks. Sometimes when I pressed the button I would get a big white flash on the screen and hear a huge crack, but no display. Other times I'd see some kind of spark on the inside for half a second.
I don't know what to do about this, and a 14" monitor from ten years ago at 800 x 600 really sucks for Warcraft III. Can any of you guys help me?
I'm having a bit of a problem with my monitor. It's a 19" HP M90 monitor, and I use it with a 32MB GeForce2 GTS DDR, Windows XP Professional, 512 MB of SDRAM and an old Slot A Athlon 800 Mhz. It's only about a year old.
A couple months ago it started doing this thing where I would have to press the button to turn it on more than once to get it on. I'd press the button once, the green light turns on, and I see nothing. I turn it off, press it again to turn it on again, and after a little while I'd get some display. It never turned off by itself once it was on, but it took a couple presses of the button to get it working.
Over time it got worse and worse, and I had to press it more and more to get it to work. One day, after an entire hour of pressing it, I gave up and took the cover off. Nothing seemed unusual inside except for a couple gobs of what looked like thermal grease around some big metal things, presumably heatsinks. Sometimes when I pressed the button I would get a big white flash on the screen and hear a huge crack, but no display. Other times I'd see some kind of spark on the inside for half a second.
I don't know what to do about this, and a 14" monitor from ten years ago at 800 x 600 really sucks for Warcraft III. Can any of you guys help me?
