• seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    14·
    22 days ago

    Also in college, I had a “gaming” CRT that I refused to let die. Towards the end of it’s life, it wouldn’t turn on if the temperature got too low. But would work fine if I “preheated” it in the oven. Once it was on it would stay on.

    It rocked on nearly a year like that until I decided to smoke a bowl while it warmed up and came back to monitor shaped blob.

      • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        21 days ago

        I doubt it was anything special. But I did have to put the rack all the way to the bottom and lay it screen down. Was a Dell branded 21" trinitron IIRC.

        • Akasazh@feddit.nl
          2·
          21 days ago

          I don’t doubt you, but thats a big oven. Im kinda curious after the story of who found out that the oven fixed it :p

          • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            21 days ago

            Well I didn’t start out putting it in the oven. I just noticed on cold days, it took a really long time to turn on. But when it was hot, it worked normal.

            Eventually it got worse and wouldn’t come on at all. So I tried warming up the insides with a hair drier, and it worked. It took a long time, but as long as I kept the monitor on, it would keep working fine.

            Then the hair dried died. And it was a weekend off of work. I’ll be damned if I give up that prime gaming time. So I chukked that puppy in the oven and set it as low as it would go (I think it was like 250). Once the preheat timer went off, I pulled out the monitor, ran it to my PC and fired it up. Worked instantly, and was way faster than a hairdryer.

            Lather, rinse, repeat until the inevitable happened.