[geeks] LCD made it 5 years...

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I bought a couple of Hyundai 22 inchers 5 years ago. One has been in use
constantly, the other only for bringing up or installing new systems.

The heavily used one started failing today. The screen went blank and since
they've been monkeying with the power in the neighborhood at first I thought
it was a power outage but then everything else remained on, so... oops.

If I turn it off and then on again I can see the console for a few seconds
then it goes blank. Is this a normal failure mode for the "bad cap" ailment?
Any ideas? 

Unfortunately for me, all my tools are in storage so I have no chance of
fixing this at the moment. It will have to go back in its box until I get
my stuff back.

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