So my secondary screen died

[entoptic]

Be careful if you choose to do the work yourself. Indeed it sounds like a Capacitor is shoot. This is an easy fix however if you do not know about capacitors and the dangers of them then do not do it yourself unless you read up.

On most monitors and TVs if you touch the cappie and it goes on you are in for one HELL OF A JOLT. Sometimes this can kill however 5 out of 10 times you just go numb in half your body. If you use both hands and the cap discharges on you then ALL the enegry WILL go through your HEART and you could very well die.

Just be careful. It's a simple job but just be careful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA25ghMAyak&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS_EM...eature=related

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Nice, do you roll that way, on a single 1920x1200 screen?

Nope. I have two 1920x1200 screens on two separate PC's. Main is fullscreen on one, four clones are 960x600 on the other.

For my tastes, any window size smaller than 800x600 isn't usable, so I wouldn't want to cram five clients onto one screen.

This is true. I've got a 22" 1680x1050 monitor showing 4x alts now, but I'm about to go back to another 24" 1920x1200 for the alts. Even after adjusting the UI scaling, the fonts/icons are still too small for how much size the screen has (840x512). 600 is the minimum dimension I'd plan to use for either height or width.

[Ozbert]

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I think the capacitors used in LCD's are likely to be a lot smaller than the ones in CRT's. I know that the insides of a CRT stay dangerous for hours/days after they were last switched on, but I don't think LCD's are like that. But, I'm not an expert on such things, so take my words with a pinch of bullsh*t and don't blame me if you get fried.