Monitor Died On Me - WTF! :(
 

I have a Samsung SyncMaster 205BW. I purchased this back in 2008 as a recommendation by several RS members. The monitor held up well until an hour ago. It suddenly started flickering, as if there was no power going to it. There was nothing I could do to stop this flickering. I unplugged the VGA cable and it still did this. All I could do was turn it on or off.

The warranty period is over. Is it worth investigating and fixing or should I go Office Space on it with a bat in a soccer field? I tested the monitor on my sister's PC and my Mac - no good. Tried other monitors on my PC and it worked fine. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Samsung's monitors have a 3-year warranty ... If you bought it in 2008, it should still be under warranty.

Anyways, I've noticed a lot of the 205BWs and 225BWs coming in w/ dead power supplies, dead backlights, and/or broken hinges after 1-2 years of use. Samsung obviously cheaped out on parts on those models ...

Well, if in deed your monitor is out of warranty and it's too expensive to repair, you might as well go out and get yourself a nice phat HD 24" monitor.

Buy a Dell holmes
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Sweet it's within the warranty period! :D

:lol

Well done!

Got one of these myself! Had it since 06 and it has probably spent more time on than off.

Only problem I ever had with it was the early models had bad tilt hinges that eventually just let the monitor point down. Maybe it will die soon and I can buy something huge. :P

Overall great screens.