Re: Is my monitor really broken?

haddon@xxxxxxxxx wrote in
news:1163306472.559937.289640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I recently acquired a Sun GDM-90w10 (rebadged Sony w900) 24"
widescreen crt. It is very old (manufactured Dec '97)...
http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.0/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/Devi
ces/Monitor/MONITOR_Color_24_Premium_CRT.html...
Did my monitor just meet it's inevitable end and wear out?

Reliability: 110K Hours MTBF (mean time between failures) according to
the web page

2006 - 1997 = 9 years
9 years * 365 days/year * 24 hours/day = 79K hours

So... it's about time it failed, if it were on 24/7. If it wasn't then
it's still young, in theory. In any case, try to find out what broke,
and what it would take to fix it. 24" monitors are not cheap to come by!
.

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