Old monitor finally broke?

[GGizmo]

I've never had a monitor stop working before so I want to just ask you guys are these the symptoms of a dead monitor.

So at night when I turn off the computer I usually let the monitors (I have 2) go in to standby.

This morning when I turned the computer on.. the old monitor I use for looking at my desktop while gaming immediately turned off. If I turn it back on by its power button when the computer is loaded up I see the desktop for a second then the monitor turns off again.

I'm thinking its the monitor rather than the graphics card or hdmi cable as if it was any of those surely the monitor would remain on and act like there was no signal? Am I right in thinking this?

 

[GGizmo]

Ok a kind of update. When I deselected the monitor from the nvidia panel and then turned it on the power it stayed on, and so I reselected it and the desktop came back on.

It's slightly flickering.

I should add this all seemed to happen last night when I was trying to figure out why my colours settings weren't saving after I turned my main monitor back on in the morning. So in the nvidia 'Change Resolution' settings, on the main monitor at option 3, I moved from using default colour settings to using Nvidia colour settings. This seemed to be ok until this morning when the other monitor wouldnt come on.

 

[Kei]

Sounds like a backlight fault. Grab a torch and shine it through the panel and see I'd you can see a picture on it. I had an HP panel that showed the same behavior you described and it was a conductive block that connected one of the cathode tubes to the transformer board was making poor contact with the tube connector. The arcing caused eventually stopped it from working. (Flickering was the first sign it was on it's way out) Took a lot of work but it is happily running again 4 months on.

IIRC, this type of fault is commonly referred to as the "2 seconds to black" fault.