[ale] [OT] monitor repair?

[Mark Shewmaker]

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:43, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Ok, so my faithful 21" CRT monitor bit the dust a couple of weeks ago.  
> It was during a "brownout" and now when I turn it on I can hear the 
> relays inside click like 2 times and I don't get a display.  Soooo...
> 
> After drooling over the new 21" Apple LCD up at CompUSA, I'm forced to 
> decide if I should have my 21" repaired or if I should just cut my 
> losses and get the Apple LCD.
> 
> Does anyone know of any places that repair monitors?

Good timing:  I just yesterday dropped off a 17" monitor with Paul of
Advance Video Tech.  He charges a flat rate of $50 for fixing 17"
monitors.  I don't know what his flat rate is for a 21" monitor--it may
be the same or not--don't know.

It's basically a one-person operation.  (So you get him on the phone,
not a chain bored nontechnical people filling out rote paperwork.)  So I
brought my monitor in, he put it up on his repair bench and hooked it up
to see the failure mode, and then it went into the queue of other
monitors to be repaired.  (He quoted me a 3-5 day turnaround time.)

I then got a call around noon today saying he had it fixed, and he
offered to meet me off Jimmy Carter BLVD to pick it up if that were more
convenient for me than coming to his office again.  (He knew that that
was closer to me than his office, so he offered to meet there since he
was going to be in that area anyway.)

I've now got it hooked up again to my machine, and not even an hour
later see your email asking about monitor repairs!  :-)

Anyway, I'd recommend him.

His office address is 2150 Bogs Road Suite 640, Duluth, GA.  (A mile or
so from Gwinnet Place Mall.)  His cell is 678-361-4963.  He shares an
office/warehouse space with a couple other businesses, so it's kind of
confusing dropping things off.

I found out about him by calling a company that used to be "Monitor
Depot" here in town, and after finding that they don't do monitor repair
anymore, asking for a recommendation from them--this was a guy who
worked for them for a while before going off on his own.

BTW, I really, really liked the monitor I had/have, and so even though I
could have gotten a used one for $50--same price as his original repair
quote, I preferred having my own known-good,
great-specs-as-I-researched-it-forever-before-buying-it-way-back-when
monitor than a used one I wasn't as familiar with.  (I still really like
my iiyama 9017E)

However, he also sells used monitors, so if yours is unrepairable or
something you might want to ask about that.

Anyway, I'd recommend the guy.

As for the oh-so-sweet apple cinema display--There's some sort of event
this Friday  evening (Oct 24) at Apple stores, including the one in
Lenox mall.  There's a possibility that they may have another
few-hour-sale going on, so if you decide to go that route, it might be
worth it to do the get-in-line thing at 7/8 (?) pm this Friday if it
turns out that they do end up having a similar promotion.  (We're hoping
for another one 10%-off-storewide sale as we heard about happening last
year, but there's no telling in advance if that's going to happen this
time unfortunately.)

-- 
Mark Shewmaker
mark at primefactor.com