Monitor repair in South Bend

Honestly, it depends on the monitor and what's wrong with it. A lot of basic monitors cost less new than the parts and labor to fix them, and when that's the case we say so at the diagnostic instead of taking your money for a repair that doesn't make sense. A larger or nicer screen, or one where the problem turns out to be a cable, a port or the power board, is often well worth fixing. We won't guess over the phone, because a guess before we've seen it wouldn't be honest. For the flat $60 you get a real answer either way, and that $60 comes off the repair if you go ahead.

Not necessarily. No power is often the power brick or cord, and a power light with no picture can be the cable, the input it's set to, the computer's video output, or a board inside the monitor. Some of those are cheap fixes and one of them isn't a monitor problem at all. Bring it in with its power cord and we'll test it on our bench and tell you which it is.

Sometimes. Flicker and lines that come and go are often the cable, the connection, or a board inside the monitor, and those are usually fixable. Lines that are always there in the same place, or a dead patch of screen, usually mean the panel itself, and on most monitors a new panel costs more than a new monitor. That's exactly the kind of call the $60 diagnostic is for: we tell you which one you have before you spend anything more.

Try a different cable and a different input first, since a bad cable looks exactly like a dead port. If the port really is dead, it's a board repair, and whether that's worth doing depends on the monitor: sometimes the honest answer is to use another input, sometimes it's a straightforward fix, and sometimes replacing the monitor is the better deal. We tell you which at the diagnostic, and the $60 comes off the repair if you go ahead.

We don't quote repair prices over the phone, because a guess before we've seen the monitor wouldn't be honest. It's a flat $60 for us to test it and tell you exactly what's wrong, and that $60 comes off the repair if you go ahead. You'll hear the full price before we touch anything. And if the monitor costs less to replace than to fix, we'll tell you that for the same $60, so you walk out knowing what's going on either way.

Yes. A cracked, black or flickering laptop screen is its own repair, and it's one of the most common things on our bench. It works the same way: a flat $60 diagnostic, credited to the repair, and a real price before any work starts. See our laptop screen repair page, or just bring the laptop in.