What do you do with a broken Trinitron?

[flavio]

Should I throw it out? It'd be nice if it was under warranty, but my girlfriend bought it and can't find the reciept anywhere. I'm not sure if it's worth getting fixed or not.

It's a 19" Sony CPD-420GS monitor

 

[cremator]

go ahead and send the recept and the monitor and the girlfriend to my house...all will work out

 

[DARRIN]

What's wrong with it? How old is it?

 

[SpecialEd]

shoot it out of a canon...

 

[flavio]

It's about 2 1/2 years old and it just won't power on anymore. I had thought maybe it was just the power button and I could fix it myself but I took it apart and there a cages inside of cages inside of cages that I would have to take apart just to get to the power button.

 

[GrumpyMan]

You should try to call Sony and see what they say. At least they can tell you where the nearest service center for Sony is where they can give you an estimate for repair or even if it's worth repairing.

 

[DARRIN]

How much do you want for it?

 

[GoodRevrnd]

That's a sweet monitor, I just bought one of those. Anyway, if all else fails drop it off a damn or something similar.

 

[CanOWorms]

Do this!

 

[vailr]

Sony has a repair/don't repair policy based on age of the monitor. My 2 year-old CPD-E200 is "too old to repair, we'll ship a brand-new one for $50 more than you can buy a new one for at Best Buy". Your CPD-420GS is probably new enough to warrant repairing, however.
Sony phone number for technical support is 800-326-9551.

 

[Mavrick007]

They can age the monitor based on manufacturing date, and this can be found from serial number so that they might warranty it even if you don't have a receipt.

 

[hoihtah]

i say open it and find out what's wrong.
hey... what do you have to lose?

 

[flavio]

I did open it...see above.

I talked to Sony now and they told me to send it in but I need a reciept. Since I can't find it anywhere I thought I'd call the place I bought it from. That was Onsale.com which is now Egghead/Amazon I sent an email to them hoping they can help me out. If they can't find my order I'm back to the starting point.

A very nice non-working monitor I'm not sure if it's worth repairing.

 

[Buzzman151]

FISHBOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cuular]

Look for a local electronics repair shop. I have one near me that fixes just about any monitor for around 60.00. Only exception was an NEC model that they had to buy a new computer board for. The computer board was 199.00 and to buy the same monitor new was like 149.00. I let them keep it for the spare parts and bought a new one.

It never hurts to find a local shop and get an estimate from them. They have repaired about 5 or 6 monitors for me. And all of them they have repaired, worked longer after repair than they did before repair.

 

[flavio]

<< Do this! >>



As the very last resort I just might do that.

 

[DARRIN]

you need to at least check the fuse on the circuit board.