Fatty August 30, 2004 Share Fatty GC Founder August 30, 2004 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage August 30, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests August 30, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Kill3r August 30, 2004 Share All Kill3r Member August 30, 2004 my monitor is 10+ years old, still kickin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gOOters August 30, 2004 Share gOOters Member August 30, 2004 10 years and starting to show some signs of bad health, but mostly still good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher August 30, 2004 Share Preacher Member August 30, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
random_n00b August 31, 2004 Share random_n00b Member August 31, 2004 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) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nut August 31, 2004 Share nut Member August 31, 2004 my monitor is 10+ years old, still kickin. as is mine to =) =P NuT- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox August 31, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member August 31, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL September 1, 2004 Share dwEEziL Member September 1, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[KWA]SaVAgE September 1, 2004 Share [KWA]SaVAgE Member September 1, 2004 (edited) Pinging 66.219.146.149 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.219.146.149: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=62 Reply from 66.219.146.149: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=62 Reply from 66.219.146.149: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=62 Reply from 66.219.146.149: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=62 Ping statistics for 66.219.146.149: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 8ms, Maximum = 43ms, Average = 28ms Tracing route to clev146-cs20.direct.neobright.net [66.219.146.149] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 4 ms 3 ms 4 ms 192.168.3.1 2 11 ms 6 ms 2 ms clev-gw.doycomm.com [66.219.155.1] 3 17 ms 9 ms * clev146-cs20.direct.neobright.net [66.219.146.149] 4 10 ms 24 ms 14 ms clev146-cs20.direct.neobright.net [66.219.146.149] Trace complete. Edited September 1, 2004 by [KWA]SaVAgE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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