Life Expectancy of a Monitor?

[Fatty]

My older monitor is really acting strange...does this enlarge/squeeze thing every so often, getting more often....degaussing helped I thought, then I thought turning it on and off helped...but not really.

 

I think she's just dying....I don't know how old it is...maybe 5 years and used just about daily?

[Guest zerodamage]

I really do not know the life of a monitor to be honest. I've seen some last 5 years and others last 6 months. I have a few at my work about 10 years old, about 7 inches big and black and white like the tv's of old. I guess it depends.

[All Kill3r]

my monitor is 10+ years old, still kickin.

[gOOters]

10 years and starting to show some signs of bad health, but mostly still good.

[Preacher]

I have an appleIIe monitor that is like 20 years old that still works good and a C64 monitor that is still working too lol

[random_n00b]

I have a Hewlett Packard monitor that died in less than two years. It really depends on how well the thing was made.

 

(and yes, I said have. It has quite a furry coat of dust on it right now)

[nut]

my monitor is 10+ years old, still kickin.

as is mine to =) =P

 

NuT-

[appalachian_fox]

My monitor is about 5 years old, it's lost a good bit of brightness (can still be adjusted to normal, but it takes a good bit of tweaking) and every so often it appears to Degauss itself, which it never used to do. I also found I sometimes have to change some settings on it (width, trapezoid, centering, etc.) if I unplug it, which didn't happen until recently (1+ yr). Borrowed a friend's monitor for awhile, it was running over 10 years when I finally killed it, and it looked like a champ 'till the end.

[dwEEziL]

Mine is a 5 year old Viewsonic. In general, I would say 5 years is when you begin watching it for signs of failure but it should, if kept well (meaning not many bumping LAN party road trips) it should last for a few more years. Others get luckier and they last longer.

[[KWA]SaVAgE]

 

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Edited September 1, 2004 by [KWA]SaVAgE