How do you fix a burned out monitor?

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Is there any way to fix a 'burned in' ghost image on a CRT monitor? White full screen burn?

Is there any way to fix a 'burned in' ghost image on CRT monitors? I've heard of people re-burning the entire screen with a white screen saver to lighten the original 'burned in' image and make it less visible. Any hardware solutions? Software? Buying a new monitor/lcd is a bad answer - save your breath. If you have a REAL solution to fixing this problem I'd be glad to hear it. :)

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If you have the image that caused the burn in then invert the colors and burn in the new image at high...

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How do you fix a blue tint on a desktop if it appears on your monitor? I need an answer asap. thanks.?

I have an hp pavillion desktop. The desktop display works great. I've always used an external LCD monitor- and about a month ago, the secondary monitor suddenly had a blue tint to the screen. The laptop's display worked great. Eventually the 2nd LCD...

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it sounds like a driver setting. Are you sure there are normal settings specified there. there could...

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What could be the problem with my monitor?

i was playing around with my monitor that was having some weird problems when i accidentally hit a kind of wrinkled metallic bar in the power supply circuit of the monitor while it was plugged in and a spark happened and the house power went off, but...

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what i believe happened is called catastrophic Electro-static discharge. This could mean one of two...

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Computer monitor making weird noise/smell, etc...?

I have a viewsonic LCD flat screen monitor of some sort and last night out of nowhere, the screen became very dim for a few seconds and then went completely black. There was a faint but weird toxic burning smell and now my monitor makes a squealing noise...

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I'd keep it turned off but it sounds to me like one or more capacitors have popped.

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Capacitors in a monitor?

Hi I'm trying to fix my broken monitor right now. I opened it up and found that 3 of the 5 capacitors in the monitor were blow out. I was able to get 5 new capacitors but the old ones are 820 microF and the new ones are 1000 microF. I was wondering if...

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1000 should work fine, unless it's a timing circuit. Start by just replacing the blown ones, and any...

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Laptop monitor displaying odd, colors, not normal... is it broken?

My laptop is about 4-5 years old. The monitor doesn't display the correct colors anymore. It is an LCD screen. Everything has a red hue to it, and it seemed like this got progressivley worse over time. Is there something I can do to fix this? maybe play...

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If you've tried changing the settings to to effect then it looks like you will have to replace the monitor...

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My laptop wont work with another monitor?

My laptop's screen won't light up anymore. Either the light has burned out or there is something wrong with the connection. I do not have the money to fix that right now. So, I tried to hook it up to another screen I have. The laptop has the right plug...

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The 'holes' that you're referring to that are missing on the computer may just only need to have the...

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How to fix monitor from turning black when windows is starting up?

After BIOS, my computer briefly comes up with the windows 7 startup animation but then my computer monitor screen quickly turns black. I still hear the windows start up sound and my monitor "turns back on" as the welcome screen pops up. I have...

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It's not something that needs fixing. The monitor is working correctly. It is just how Windows boots...

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Laptop-Monitor via VGA cable. Monitor displays laptop size. How to fix?

I have a Dell Inspirion 1525 laptop connected to a Samsung B2330 monitor via vga cable. I get 3 options for display when I hit the Fn key which is just laptop, just monitor, or monitor and laptop. When I choose both laptop and monitor to display simultaneously...

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Right click the desktop toto icons and play around with the icon sizes. And if that doesn't work try...

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Broken Monitor, how did it break, and (more importantly) how to fix?

I have a broken monitor lying in backroom for almost two years now, and I don't use because I have a spare monitor. When I found it, i decided i want to try to use it again since I've completely forgetten how it broke in the first place. I attached it...

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its probably your motherboards VGA output.. you might want to try getting a graphics card (cheapo one...

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