Mac Forum / General / Hardware / December 2007

This is not exactly a Mac issue but the monitor do connected to
my iMac, so it is related. :-) I use a Neovo F-419 as my iMac
second monitor through Mini-DVI to VGA adapter. The monitor has
been working for almost 2 year - 1 year as iMac second monitor -
without any issue.

This morning, without any warning, the monitor failed to wake up
from sleep, is stayed dark. Actually, when I woke up my Mac's
monitors, I saw a flash of the correct display content, then the
monitor went dark again. I tried several things and eventually
pull the monitor out from the Mac, but it it consistently
flashing up for a moment then going dark. Seems like the
backlight failed to start.

So my question:

1. Is there anything can be done with this monitor?

2. Any advice on what causing this? Any suggestion on what
should I do to prevent this happening again in the future? The
monitor do connect through a surge protector - albeit an old
one. As far as I know there is no electric discontinuity last
night: all electronic with clocks stays on, and the iMac
connected to the same surge protector still OK.

Thanks!