Is my monitor dead?

[johnoh]

I have a kds VS-21 crt that has been great for a couple years and today when I turned it on the green light came on but the screen remains black. My second monitor is also a crt and it works fine. To troubleshoot I switched vga plugs on my pc and now the 2nd monitor is the primary and the vs-21 is still black. Windows device manager still thinks the vs-21 is there. I also unplugged it from the back of the crt and replugged it in, to no avail. When I turn on the machine the crt light does go from orange to green like its supposed to. I am not sure what to try next so thought I would ask here. Thanks!

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[johnoh]

Well I tried the monitor on another machine and it worked fine, then put it back on this machine and it worked fine. So I figured maybe the cable had been loose before. Then 3 days went by and just now while I was using it, it took about 7 seconds to go from illuminated to black. As though the brightness was being turned down. I turned it off and on and it stayed black though the power light went from orange to green like its supposed to. Then I went away for an hour and tried it again and now it works again. But I figure it will go black again at some point. Any thoughts are appreciated.

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[Crashman]

I had a Gateway monitor with a bad sleep mode function card. It had trouble waking up. I ended up setting my PC to never turn off the video signal, and turning the monitor off before the computer powered down, so it never went into sleep mode. Then one day Windows got corrupted, so I reloaded it and forgot to disable sleep mode, the monitor never woke up again. That function was controlled by a separate card inside the monitor, but I couldn't find another monitor of the same type with a different problem to provide a spare part, so I threw it out. It was otherwise in like-new condition.

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[johnoh]

ITs been a few weeks now and I have a second monitor set up in clone mode. Every day maybe once or twice the main monitor will just sort of "fade to black" with the green light staying on. Then when I shutdown it goes to orange. Later it will still be black and then it will suddenly brighten again. It is random and is not dependant on what the system is doing. No idea.

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[johnoh]

bump

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