I bought this monitor off of craglist and the other day I unplugged it to clean water that had spilled on my desk, after I had clean the water, I plug the monitor back in, but it would no longer turn on. I open it up to clean to check what was going on and discovered that it was insanely dirty with cockroach poop (yuck). I clean off the the two boards that are inside the bottom housing, a Button Board and the main board. There was not much on the main, but the button board was gross, but I figured that all this nasty ass fucking poop was causing a short some where and I after I cleaned it all I got power and everything turned on but now my monitor has these lines and a small blackspot.
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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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