OK, my father evidentally gave my name to some lady to fix her computer but I got there and it is impossible to work on the computer as I left my spare monitor 120 miles away in my apartment. So here is the situation:
The monitor (Compaq FP5017) goes black for 4 seconds and then flashes the screen for a split second then continues to go black. At first I thought it was just a loose cable until I realized once I unlplugged the monitor it took 8 seconds for the monitor to even realize that it was unplugged.
I am fairly convinced the monitor is just shot since the screen is about as dirty as an LCD screen could possibly be I imagine there were multiple things dumped on/in the panel.
So if any of you have any suggestions that would be fairly helpful. If all else fails I'll just drive back to my place and grab the extra monitor.
Thank you.