I come to you with a few less inches than I did yesterday.<\/p>\n

Ahem.<\/i><\/p>\n

Yesterday, my monitor of twenty-seven months up and died. I know I had it for twenty-seven months, because the warranty was only good for twenty-four months. <\/p>\n

Back in October of 2008, I wrote a post about the I-INC 28″ Monitor<\/a>. It wasn’t cheap — around $400 at the time, if I remember correctly, but it was very big, and I was very proud. What I quickly learned was, size isn’t everything — and when it comes to monitors, often quality prevails over quantity. <\/p>\n

Within a few months, the I-INC had developed a single stuck pixel — one tiny little dot that, no matter what I did, stayed white. I tried massaging it with my thumb, and I tried viewing the YouTube videos that are supposedly supposed to “flash” the pixels into submission, but nothing worked. “Ah well,” I thought. After all, it was just one dead pixel among a vast sea of screen real estate.<\/p>\n

Then, there were two. Then three, then four, and then five.<\/p>\n

Last week, my monitor began randomly flashing on and off. It mostly seemed to happen when coming out of sleep mode, so eventually I disabled that. Being a good little tech, I tried isolating the problem down by swapping out cables and re-checking all my video connections. I even upgraded my video card’s driver, in hopes that that might alleviate the problem.<\/p>\n

Last night, when the monitor would no longer power on, I knew where the problem lay. Where, problem. There, problem. There, castle. (Why are you talking that way? I thought you wanted to!<\/a>)<\/p>\n

TigerDirect only offers a 12 month warranty; I purchased an additional year on top of that, but unfortunately the monitor made it three months too long. I tried tracking down I-INC (who was either acquired by, merged with, or renamed themselves “Hansspree”), but that was of no use. It looks like I can mail the monitor back to them and, for around $100, they’ll take a look at it with no guarantee of a fix. Just when I thought that was bad news, I searched Google for I-INC won’t turn on<\/a> and discovered that, sadly, I’m not alone. Some owners claim it’s a firmware issue, others say it could be a bad high-voltage transformer. I’m equally likely to fix either issue on my own …<\/p>\n

And so, the I-INC has been officially removed from service. Unlike an old CRT monitor, dead flat screen monitors aren’t bulky enough to be used as a boat anchor, nor are they heavy enough to serve as a doorstop. It’s too big to blend<\/a>, and won’t blow up like a tube monitor<\/a>. Frankly, I can’t come up with a single interesting use for the thing. Tomorrow’s trash day, and it’ll probably go out in the dumpster.<\/p>\n

The monitor was replaced with a 21″ flat screen Acer monitor from Walmart. It’s smaller than my old I-INC and the 24″ Dell monitors I have at work, but I’m sure it’ll work just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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