[ale] 30" LCD monitor locally

[Scott Castaline]

On 11/21/2010 02:13 PM, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a local source to get a 30" LCD monitor.  I know
> Apple stores have them, but looking for something cheaper.
>
>
You could try MicroCenter, I had just bought a Viewsonic 22" the other 
day and saw what appeared to be significantly larger than the 26" units 
on display. I did not really check them out as they definitely were out 
of my price range. This weekend turned out to be a rather expensive one 
for me after my 19" LCD met an untimely death from a projectile missile 
or missile projectile.

Brought home the new monitor and hooked it marveling at the brightness 
and clarity of it while booting. It got to the login and went blank, a 
second later the system rebooted, got half way through the boot and went 
dead. It would not power up so I started unplugging stuff and trying to 
power up to rule out the MoBo, when there was aloud pop and flash coming 
from the bank of electolytics on the MoBo immediately emitting the 
notorious odor of blown caps. At which time my wife stated that if I 
wanted her to leave the room I didn't have to stink her out.

Took the system apart and the board stunk really bad and the MPU chip 
looked scorched as well, so back to MicroCenter we went. New ASUS 
M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 along with AMD Phenom II 965 X4 and 4GB RAM. Got home 
put it all together and still dead. Next morning back to MicroCenter and 
got a 600Watt PSU (Corsair) and a PSU tester and a SATA3 1TB HDD. 
Apparently the MoBo took out the old PSU when it died.

Now all is well except my bank account. Sorry for going off track but my 
point is I beleive that there may have been a couple of 30" panels there 
at MicroCenter in Duluth.