Monitor problems

I have a 3 year old monitor on my old computer and all of a sudden while i was listening to music it shut off and the little light turned out. I pressed the on button and the light came back on but nothing showed up on the screen and the light turned off again after 3 seconds. Theres nothing wrong with my computer cause i tried a different monitor on it and it worked. Could my monitor have died? it's 3 years old, how long do monitors usualy last?

Ah yes your monitor is dead

Did ANYTHING else happen immediately before the "monitor outage?" If so, post it and it might help. A lot of the time static electricity builds up inside the monitor and it finally strikes something. If you know anything about ESD then you know that it means bad things. I would take it to an electrician and see what they come up with. It happens a lot to people who leave their monitors on 24/7/365(366 on a leap yr.)/80 years of their life. lol.

The last two monitors I had to replace did exactly the same thing. Never bothered to find out what caused it. It was easier just to replace them than worry about it.

ok thanks.. thank god it was my old computer's monitor and not my 19" 1600X1280 monitor