re monitor turning off on its own in article gcohen mailer acns fsu edu gcohen mailer acns fsu edu gregory cohen wrote in article apr rhrk uni kl de staudt physik uni kl de willi staudt ag linder writes from staudt physik uni kl de willi staudt ag linder subject re monitor turning off on its own date tue apr gmt kayc leland stanford edu k c ku writes i have a strange problem with my apple monitor which hopefully someone can shed some light on i would be using my computer for minutes and then the screen would go blank as if someone has switch the monitor off after the screen went off i would not be able to turn the monitor off even if i turn the power off and back on i will have to let the monitor sit over night and it usually turns on although it doesnt stay on for very long dooes anybody has similar experience with such a problem before is there some fuse in the monitor that prevents it from turning on when i try to turn the monitor on it seems that the monitor tries to turn on but it prevented by some mechamism in certain apple rgb monitors there has been a problem with the high voltage capasitor apple knows about this problem and is replacing the cap at no cost if it falls into the bad batch that they got from their supplier your local repair shop should know about repair extension l
