Name: HP f1903
Born: March 15th, 2005
Died: September 5th, 2008
Age: 3 years, six months
My computer monitor had the nerve to die on me Friday morning. I was about to shut down my computer and go to bed (at 5am, hah) when the monitor suddenly went black. It powered back up, but its power light flashed amber. I checked the cords; nothing had changed. After a minutes I gave up, unplugged the monitor and went to bed.
Friday evening, I decided to plug in the monitor, hoping that by a miracle it would suddenly work again. Nada. Just the same blinking. Only… I forgot to unplug it, and got busy doing other things. A few minutes later, something inside the monitor made this sharp CRACK, and when I went over to inspect the monitor it smelled hot. Whoops!
So yeah, definitely dead as a door nail. I’m bummer. And pissed. I use my desktop a lot, but I always shut it down at night, and let the screensaver kick in after five minutes of idleness. Do LCD monitors usually die so soon? 
actually you’re lucky it lasted that long. my dad fixes electronics and he says they die pretty quick. most likely you blew a capacitor which can be fixed but takes a bit of know how.
my boyfriend’s monitor (a huge ass 22 inch gateway monitor) blew a month or so ago after only a year and a half.
I’ve been through so many monitors it is pathetic. And none of them have been LCD monitors. My current desktop monitor I got in 2004 and I’m amazed it’s still running to be honest. LOL
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I have an iMac. Well I had one for two years, leaving it on pretty much all the time with black after 20 minutes. I sold it after those 2 years and it still worked fine. I’ve had my current one for over a year now, same conditions. I think LCDs can last a really long time, it just depends on random chance.
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