Has anyone here had experiences with LCD monitor failures? My NEC 1830, a handsome 18" jobbie just three years old, lit up as usual this morning (I have been granted two days at home by a benificent boss in return for nights, weekends and holidays spent on a just-concluded project) and then, seconds later, dimmed and went dark. Over the past couple of weeks the display had flickered slightly a few times, and I put this down to erratic electricity, but perhaps these were precursor symptoms.

On the remote chance that the problem lay in the video card, I connected the monitor to this laptop, which can support a second screen, and...nada.

None of the usual hardwired onscreen menus, which would ordinarily come up at the touch of a button independent of the computer on the other end, appear.

When the monitor is powered up it emits a brief, very faint glow for a moment and then goes dark.

It is well that I have the Powerbook to fall back on, but most of my production software is still marooned on the desktop machine, and my palette-heavy applications do not lend themselves to a 12" 1024 x 768 display.

Any chance that this will turn out to be a ten-cent part, does anyone think, or must I brave the harrowing CompUSSR retail experience to restore functionality to my main machine?

dispiritedly,

Aparently the monitor hadn't died—only fainted.

I left it plugged in but not otherwise connected to anything; would stop by at intervals, switch it on, stab front panel buttons, gloomily ponder replacement options. At about the third go-around, half a day after the original failure, the lights came back on. Go figure.

1280x1024, good buddies,