Step 1: Find a monitor in the dumpster at work
Step 2: Plug it in
Step 3: Hmm… the backlight doesn’t work
Step3: Take it apart
Step 4: Measure the input to the high voltage transformer, while being careful not to vaporize yourself on the 750V line
Step 5: Crap… ridiculously noisey
Step 6: Look at capacitors on the bus, notice that they’re bulging and leaking
Step 6.5 : replace 450uF 25V Caps with 450uF 50V caps
step 6.7: turn back on
step 6.8645988884: works like new
Step 9: Replace your crappy, 12 year old CRT
The only thing that’s badd now is frog and toad