Originally Posted by
Donkey Hotey
.....This is the new style screen? Wow, your machine can't be that old. I wonder why it failed.
Gremlins.
Inexpicable early failures at a very low frequency rate are a feature of all electronics. As I understand it electronic assemblies or components are 'sorted' by a 'burn in' procedure. They are run at more than their rated load for a period of time, some fail during this period but for the ones that survive burn in it can be statistically predicted that they will have a certain average lifetime. The key word is 'average', some are going to last way past the average life and some are going to fail at a very short life.
An open mind is a virtue...so long as all the common sense has not leaked out.