Hello everyone! I looked around on the site and couldn't find a problem similar to mine, so here goes.
About a month ago, after using this monitor for about 2 years with no problems, I was gaming on it and it flickered (screen went black) once. It didn't do it again, so I forgot about it, and then about 2 minutes later it did it again. And then with increasing frequency until in about one minute my screen was completely black, with very occasional faint flickers of the screen appearing. I rebooted the machine, and after about 30 seconds it began doing it again!
I let it "rest" overnight, and started it up the next day with no problems. For the next month or so it would exhibit this same behavior after an hour or two (or more - Civ V is a time-sink!) and I would shut it off to let it think about what it had done.
However, yesterday it did this again and I haven't been able to get it to go more than 90 seconds since without it flickering itself to death.
I tried the flashlight on the screen trick to check for a backlight issue, and am pretty sure I couldn't see anything. The monitor is still powered on, and the rest of the computer is running fine. The cable is securely connected on both ends. And that's about all the troubleshooting I've felt capable of doing without some assistance to make sure I don't trash the machine.
I appreciate any help you can give me, and have patience as I am new here. Let me know if you need more information or I'm not following one or more rules.
Thank you all!
About a month ago, after using this monitor for about 2 years with no problems, I was gaming on it and it flickered (screen went black) once. It didn't do it again, so I forgot about it, and then about 2 minutes later it did it again. And then with increasing frequency until in about one minute my screen was completely black, with very occasional faint flickers of the screen appearing. I rebooted the machine, and after about 30 seconds it began doing it again!
I let it "rest" overnight, and started it up the next day with no problems. For the next month or so it would exhibit this same behavior after an hour or two (or more - Civ V is a time-sink!) and I would shut it off to let it think about what it had done.
However, yesterday it did this again and I haven't been able to get it to go more than 90 seconds since without it flickering itself to death.
I tried the flashlight on the screen trick to check for a backlight issue, and am pretty sure I couldn't see anything. The monitor is still powered on, and the rest of the computer is running fine. The cable is securely connected on both ends. And that's about all the troubleshooting I've felt capable of doing without some assistance to make sure I don't trash the machine.
I appreciate any help you can give me, and have patience as I am new here. Let me know if you need more information or I'm not following one or more rules.
Thank you all!
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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