Repairs of Apple Monitors

[forrie]

We have a couple of the older-style (silver frame, previous generation) monitors that have gone dark. We don't know what's wrong with them and are hesitant to just toss them out.

Calling around, I found that a lot of local repair people won't touch them because Apple doesn't want them to. Why?

Apple will cheerfully repair them for 400.00+US -- which really isn't economical, given the prices of new monitors.

So I wonder if there are other options out there -- or if anyone knows what is commonly the problem with these older style monitors that causes them to go dark. Is it simple, or is the thing just no good?


Thanks!

 

[DrivenDaily]

If you plug it in to a computer and make sure it shows up in Displays, get a flashlight out and shine it up close on the screen and see if you can make out an image. If so it could be a dead inverter.