I have a SyncMaster 172N flat screen monitor that has recently gone on the fritz. It started out innocently enough: a single pixel green stripe running vertically from the top to bottom of the display appeared one day. I thumped the monitor, wiggled the connector and it appeared to go away. A month later thumping and wiggling didn't accomplish anything. Then one day quite unnexpectedly the entire screen erupted into a screen saver like animated globular colors. If I turned the monitor off, waited, and turned it back on the display would revert back to a usable one-green-stripe mode. But eventually, the total screen meltdown would come back.
Its now gotten to the point where I have only a few minutes after turning the monitor on before it becomes completely unusable.
Can I fix this? How would I go about it? My understanding has always been that fixing a flat screen monitor costs at least as much as its replacement. However, I have found a couple posts out there on the internet that suggest otherwise, provided that you are enterprising (for example http://experts.about.com/q/Monitor-Problems-2115/lcd-monitor-probs.htm).
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Answers by: Caleb | jeffreyf
I researched the model of your Monitor you are describing that you are having issues with. Let me ask this first. Is your monitor under warranty? If so, do not take it to a repair shop they can void out your warranty even if they do not successfully fix your monitor. Here is a link, to Samsung so you can report the error with them. They are very good on repairing/replacing damaged monitors under warranty. (Unlike Dell, Inc.)
http://erms.samsungusa.com/customer/sea/jsp/faqs/faqs_ars_input.jsp
Copy and paste the above link into your browser. They have a troubleshooting menu you can go through to solve your problem.
I hope this solves your problems. I had a similar problem as you had described but, with a Dell, LCD laptop screen. Since my laptop computer was still under warranty, they had a Dell Licensed repairman come out and replace my LCD screen without any added costs. Other than that, as they explain on there website, attempts to fix an LCD screen with a large quantity of bad pixels is not very likely to happen.