Hi.
Yesterday my monitor started acting up. I saw very few horizontal distortion/tears, then they started to multiply and look like the old "ant" moving around when there was noting on TV, except its with lines and they are only horizontal.
I changed the wall socket its mounted into, changed my VGA to another, the cable, the power cable. Nothing helped, after poking around a little I found out even when I start the monitor I can see a few lines on the purple BenQ screen, after unplugging the cable, it was still tearing while telling me the cable is not plugged.
What can cause this? I've let the monitor sleep all night now, just turned it on. It went on fine for about 30 seconds without tearing. My bet its full of dust (4 years old, never took it apart).
Can somebody guide me how to take it apart and what can cause this? I will dust it myself 100% if that doesnt help I will bring it to a shop, but I dont have money now for a new monitor or an expensive repair so I hope its not the screen itself, just some capacitor or smth.
Yesterday my monitor started acting up. I saw very few horizontal distortion/tears, then they started to multiply and look like the old "ant" moving around when there was noting on TV, except its with lines and they are only horizontal.
I changed the wall socket its mounted into, changed my VGA to another, the cable, the power cable. Nothing helped, after poking around a little I found out even when I start the monitor I can see a few lines on the purple BenQ screen, after unplugging the cable, it was still tearing while telling me the cable is not plugged.
What can cause this? I've let the monitor sleep all night now, just turned it on. It went on fine for about 30 seconds without tearing. My bet its full of dust (4 years old, never took it apart).
Can somebody guide me how to take it apart and what can cause this? I will dust it myself 100% if that doesnt help I will bring it to a shop, but I dont have money now for a new monitor or an expensive repair so I hope its not the screen itself, just some capacitor or smth.
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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