réjean Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Hi all! Someone gave me a LG Flatron W1942TQ monitor about a year and a half or 2 years ago. I don't know for how long he had it previously but he bought a 21 in and didn't need it anymore. It has been working flawlessly until this morning. I mean I turned it off as usual last night and when I turned it back on this morning the power light came on for a few seconds and then went. I tried another power chord and I noticed that if I leave it alone for 30 min or so the power light ( blue ) comes on for a second or so and goes. I am presently using a smaller monitor and everything is fine so it isn't the computer that is the problem. My main question I guess is; is it worth trying to get it fixed? I cannot afford buying a new 19 in so I'll have to live with the 17 in I am using right now but I hate trowing away electronics if they can be salvaged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burninbush Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Hi Rejean ... there are a bunch of those monitors listed on ebay.com. Maybe you could find one from somewhere near your location. Given the prices used, I can't believe it would be economical to have one repaired by a shop. Sounds like a power supply issue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Thanks burningbush! My main concern is to see this piece of electronics like so many others ending up travelling half way around the globe to end up in a sweatshop where there are no environmental regulations I would rather pay a little extra to get it fixed than getting a 2nd hand one that may not last for more than a year or two and end up in the same predicament. This is why I am asking what are the chances that it could be fixed. Heck! I'd rather pay a little and give the monitor to a more needy household that ours. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 réjean, It's rarely cost-effective these days to fix electronic equipment, assuming you can even find a shop that works on it. If it were cost-effective, I'd still have a career. Buy a new/used one. It will be a better use of your loonies. You know, the encoding and character set errors and other horse manure caused by this CARPY Invision Power Trash Board software is really really annoying. Sorry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) Thanks guys! No sweat eric about the punctuation! This is the other point I was going to make about prefering to get something fixed as opposed to get a new one. How oftn do I hear " Go to Walmart". I'm sorry but I will never shop in such a place knowing how poorly they treat their employees and about all the good jobs they have stolen for good working people (whatever country we live in ). What was wrong with the system where you bought something ( whatever it was ) you could take it back and it would still be good for a few more years. Instead of buying and trowing it away a few months later. I was born Catholic and do not believe anymore but I like what the actual pope is saying about consumerism our what Bernie Sanders says. Just my two Canadian pennie. Edited June 20, 2015 by réjean 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) Ah... I remember those days. They are long gone; never to return. What happened to them? GREED. Simple as that. The rich get richer; the poor stay ignorant and fed so they won't complain too much. Edited June 20, 2015 by V.T. Eric Layton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Your monitor may have a similar problem to mine. My monitor stop/start button stopped working, luckily for me it stopped working while the monitor was switched on.So now I can only switch on the monitor from the wall switch. In other words you may have a faulty switch. Ah... I remember those days. They are long gone; never to return. What happened to them? GREED. Simple as that. The rich get richer; the poor stay ignorant and fed so they won't complain too much. That is the trouble with you colonials you think you have it right but you always make small mistakes that have large consequences. You see your theory is almost there, "GREED. Simple as that. The rich get richer; the poor" is ok to this point. Then it should be, "have to expend all their energy obtaining food and shelter so they have no energy to complain" An you missed the final step which helps to keep up the poors spirits and reinforces the idea that the GREEDY are most benevolent , "the GREEDY then throw the poor a few crumbs every now and again like, the odd street party to honour the GREEDY(royal birthdays,new births for royalty,death of royalty etc). An occasional day off, BANK HOLIDAYS which the GREEDY need as they work tirelessly for the good of all, yet they still pay for the poors day off by tirelessly fine tuning the countries finances." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Nah... in the U.S. we have welfare and food stamps and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children), which provides just enough $ so that the poor can purchase the cheapest, least healthful food products. This in turn keeps them fat, happy, and unhealthy. Ain't it grand? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 I am not going to comment on the political aspect of your reply abarbarian ( It would take too long and go for pages and pages ) but what you suggested about the monitor kind of gives me some hope that I might be able to tweak it to start again even if it means that it has to stay on. Because until it quit it never gave any sign that it was failing. I'll see what I can do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Hello, I found a video discussing how to repair a monitor, which is very similar to what you reported. Assuming yours is similar, it may have suffered the same fate--blown capacitors. An electronics tech should be able to repair it for you. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Thanks so much goretsky! To be honest with you I didn't have time or energy to do any online research but I am not giving up yet. This is such a busy time for us here in North East Canada, still Spring, with gardens to look after at the Highschool ( even if the kids will be gone for the summer) then the museum. We also have a project for a community center where we will be planting 150 highbush blueberries ( half already in ) 70 hazelnuts shrubs or so and black elderberries, plus of course our own vegetable farm. All I can do after dark and supper is to read most of your posts. But thanks again! I'll definitely have a look at it this evening. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 All I can do after dark and supper is to read most of your posts. I'm amazed you even have the energy to turn on the computer! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 If I was in the neighborhood, rejean, I'd fix it for you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 Well at least all I have to do is sit! Last Wednesday I went to a Pain Clinic after a few years of pestering them to do something about my lower back. The doctor finally gave me an injection which is supposed to numb the pain ( I'll spare everyone the details) suffice to say that I wasn't supposed to do anything for 2 solid days. When I got home I unloaded the back of the truck holding 20 bags of 40 pounds manure/compost bags. The next day I worked with the pick softening kind of gravelling soil. Everyone I know has done that all the time. Probably everyone you know has done the equivalent too. It's what we call life. Anyway, I hope you are not in the same predicament ebrke. Now to the utube video about possibly fixing the monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 Thanks Eric! I'll look at the video first and see if I know someone who can fix it. As I said before it's more the philosophy of reuse if I can, reduce as much as possible and recycle as a last option than just the cost. The 17 in monitor I am using now was sitting idle all the time because it was hooked on a computer I foud at the recycling place running Win XP which is the latest OS a Canon Scanner that (( by coincidence ) the same guy who gave me the 19 in monitor can use). I never scan and if I need to I can use my wife's machine but the Canon scanner can do slides not that I have a need for it but it's there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 RE monitor :- It may be just attenuating contacts in the switch. After a certain number of switching cycles these contacts build up a deposit of gunk on the mating surfaces. A little blast of switch cleaner may help. It means getting access from inside the case . Or if you are handy with a solder iron bridge the terminals and just use the wall switch. RE:- Other stuff mentioned on this thread. The whole system is broken ,There is enough stashed cash to solve the whole world's economic problems overnight . But you see if things are good for all the megalomaniacs dont feel any superiority hence we are stuck with the status quo. . Well we had the nuclear (doomsday) clock in the past. *social control* Nowadays its capital rules. Heaven Help us all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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