On 10/25/2009 11:50 AM David Nebenzahl spake thus:

On 10/24/2009 11:41 PM David Nebenzahl spake thus:

Dell-branded Sony Trinitron. Has been working wonderfully for many years
up until now. It's starting to turn itself off; the relay clicks, the
power light goes out and all goes dead. Turning it off for a few minutes
revives it, but I'm afraid this might be a chronic condition that will
only get worse. (It's the same relay that clicks when powered on and
when the monitor "wakes up", I assume.)

I think I'll open 'er up and see if there's a dust buildup. Other than
this the monitor still performs perfectly.

To follow up on my own posts, I went ahead and opened 'er up. As you can
imagine, it was quite dusty inside, so I got out what I could with my
airbrush compressor blowing and a vacuum cleaner wand sucking. Couldn't
see any obvious problems, so I put 'er back together. She's working fine
so far (knock on a forest product), but it's too early to tell.


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