Some monitors will run forever, others will not. There isn't a definite time at which they fail, but there is a definite time at which it becomes a waste of your time and your money to try to fix something yourself or to pay someone to fix it.  Your 7-8 year old 15" monitor is a relic.  You can get 19" CRT monitors for barely over $100, and if you look around for closeouts and demos, under a $100.  The cost of a new monitor with substantially more screen real estate is about what it would cost you to have someone look at yours just to tell you why it doesn't work.  Get rid of it.

>Today for some reason, the monitor on my old computer decided to stop
>functioning properly. The display is all messed up -- fuzzy and difficult to see.
>I've tried adjusting all the buttons on the monitor, I've shut down and restarted
>and nothing seems to help. Is there a lifetime on monitors (this one is a
>Gateway 2000 Vivitron 15 inch -- it's probably 7-8 years old). Thanks for any
>help you can provide.
>
>

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