paxman356 Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I have a Gateway LCD monitor that was bought 3 years ago. All of the sudden yesterday it just went out. You can still see the LCD is working, but the backlight doesn't want to come on. When it is plugged into a computer, and you either tell it to autoresize, or turn it on and off, the backlight will briefly flash. It doesn't seem to be a connection, because it doen't ever move, even when pushing the buttons. Th rarely got turned off, because it went into power off mode when the computer was off. Could it be just because it is old? Or is this fixable for a low amount of dollars? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 (edited) The backlight cost more than the LCD most of the time if you take it to be worked on the will give you the "yeah we changed the backlight we had to change another part we had to clean it $350" is the monitor under warrenty? gateway might fix it. Edited December 9, 2005 by IEatHardDrives Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paxman356 Posted December 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 The backlight cost more than the LCD most of the time if you take it to be worked on the will give you the "yeah we changed the backlight we had to change another part we had to clean it $350" is the monitor under warrenty? gateway might fix it.Nah, not at over 3 years old. We just paid it off (the company.) Guess we will be looking into a new one on NewEgg. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IEatHardDrives Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 Sony,Samsung, and Acer makes good monitors I have a acer 17'' monitor its nice I can watch movies with it play games. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 (edited) You can do it yourself fairly cheap.DIY LCD monitor backlight repairhttp://www.lcd-backlight-ccfl.com/ Edited December 9, 2005 by TheTerrorist_75 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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