I have a monitor. I’ve had it for 3 years now I think. It’s a Sceptre X22WG-1080P. I’ve liked it, sometimes it seems a little bright, but I have noticed that with most LCD moitors when you’re sitting up close. Well a few months ago it started having problems. I would turn it on or bring my computer out of sleep mode and the monitor would flash on and seem to go off. After a few weeks I would have to turn it on and off several times. I think most recently I had to do it like 50 times before it would stay on. Well it turned out to be a problem resulting from backlight issues, because if I had light shining just right on the screen I could make out a fain image. So I did some digging online and found that there is an issue with capacitors going out that caused the backlight to flash on and then off. I really have no idea what a capacitor does but several people said they just popped the old ones off the board inside the monitor and soldiered new ones in. Well I own two soldering irons and thought it couldn’t hurt to try. So after getting a new 23″ monitor yesterday I pried the old one open and ran to Radio Shack and grabbed some capacitors and put them in and “Walla” (that’s for you Heather) it’s good as new.

So now I have 3855600 pixels of display area sitting on my desk.

Aleksia and Cooper think it’s magic that I can move a window from one monitor to the other and back.

But anyway I liked playing mr fix-it today and having the thing actually work when I was done, oh and the whole repair cost $8.00. Who knows how much it would have cost to have the manufacturer fix it, probably wouldn’t have been worth it.