I bought a 19" Dell 1905FP monitor about a year ago, but it started crapping out by the end of the day that I got the monitor. It suddenly blacked out, even though the power light stayed on. I turned the monitor off, waited 10 seconds, and turned it on again. The screen would come on for 2 seconds, then go to a power-saving mode again. Any time I tried to turn on the monitor, that's what would happen. After calling Dell, they sent me a replacement monitor which has worked fine ever since.

I still have the broken monitor. I sent Dell an email asking if I needed to send the original monitor in, and never received a response. How easy are the monitors to fix? I'm assuming it must not be that easy, if Dell was willing to immediately send me a new one, and didn't even want the old one back. I just didn't know if there was some way I could spend $50 or $100, fix the original monitor, and hook myself up with a dual monitor setup. Is there any way for me to do this, or should I just get the thing recycled?

6/2/2006 6:03:01 PM

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"about a year ago"

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"started crapping out by the end of the day that I got the monitor."

does not compute

[Edited on June 2, 2006 at 6:11 PM. Reason : pm fregac, thats my only guess]

6/2/2006 6:10:26 PM

Sounds like either the backlight or inverter . . . I can take a look at it, there's a pretty decent chance its repairable.

6/2/2006 6:47:37 PM

^^ he got the first one a year ago, it was practically DOA... then he got a flawless replacement and been fine since...

6/3/2006 12:57:44 AM