Went Back To Windows(R)...

[Jeffrey Gray]

I have a number of 5ish year old LCDs in the house but most of them
would be dying if it was not for my component level repair that I
perform on them.  About half of the LCDs can be saved by looking at
the inverter boards for swollen capacitors.



On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon at envygeeks.com> wrote:
> On Fri, July 29, 2011 12:06 pm, Jeffrey Gray wrote:
>> You're right.  It is a P6T Deluxe.
>
> Nice, I really do love the P6T, I'm still rocking the first P6T model
> because it just won't die to justify a new one. As long as this one keeps
> streaming along like a champ with the i7 980x I'm gonna keep it around,
> it's not let me down one time.
>
>> Yes...20" LCD monitors.  Now I'll really blow your mind.  They are 4:3
>> standard aspect ratio.  5 years ago they were considered to be quite
>> large.  Hell, they are old enough that I am already having to replace
>> some of the caps on their inverter boards.
>
> Ah yeah can't take the mick here, though you did blow my mind that they
> still work 5 years later.  I don't think I've ever had a monitor live that
> long since I bought LCD. Normally they run out and die on me within a
> couple of years >.<, could be because they are running 24/7.
>
> I remember buying the top of the line Dell monitor back when they were
> good and it died on me within a year which royally annoyed me because back
> then a 21" LCD monitor was like $300, that was the last time I bought a
> Dell monitor.  Now you got me shaking my fist at Dell.
>
>
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