What do you do if your Moniter craps out on you?
 

Whatever you can until you get a new one... :(

Before:

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After:

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/v...cture_0131.jpg

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/v...cture_0121.jpg

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/v...cture_0141.jpg

Notice all the Buffy the Vampire Slayer...um...crap. My wife is entranced with this show...go fig.
:)

What do you do if your monitor craps out on you?
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That's what I did.

Personally, I would have chosen the good old scattergun :D

what are floppies on the wall in the first pic?

are those speakers?
Creative speakers I think

Of course! D'oh! They still look like floppies, I think

right O... 3.1 surround sound...

Is the resolution on the TV good enough to read size 10 fonts easily?

Looked pretty good to me using just an S-video cable...

('tis always better to ressurect an old thread then start one on the same topic, right?)

Sooo, my old moniter crapped out (I have a new one now), and I like taking apart electronic stuff (Amp, speakers, several old car radios, coffee grinder, VCR, cordless phone, printers, probably a bunch of other stuff I've forgotten).
Moniters have scary voltage running through them though, and I've heard the capacitors can hold a charge for a long time (it's been unplugged for about a month now).
Is there any way to drain all the nastyness out so I can partake of dissasembaly without killing myself?
I don't have any sort of professional electronic dealies (multimeter, soldering iron, <insert thing I've never heard of>)

Get another one. I personally don't buy into the "I have to have a flat screen like the jonses" crap. Get a huge 21' monitor for around $200.

You'll need to open up the casing and discharge the beefy looking capacitors inside to be safe. If you forget to discharge the capacitor, your finger may become the discharge path. You only make this mistake once! Discharging capacitors is as simple as creating a short circuit between the two terminals and from each terminal to ground. This can be done safely with a well insulated screwdriver.

FHM: Pull Here>

Yeah, we know where yer pullin, buddy.

Plant stand?

Okay, I know it won't work in this day and age, but years ago, I had my monitor go out on my old 386. I used to run a BBS, and literally for nearly 2 months, I ran it with my "Print Scrn" key!! I'd do something, hit print screen.... print out what I was doing. Type a little more. Repeat. Was very tedious, and with a dot matrix printer... damn loud too.