I recently has problems with my old stand by monitor - turned out to be a sound card not the monitor - but at the time I didn't know that :( SOOooo I ran down to my local Staples and purchased a $400 LCD flat screen monitor - Top of the line. I have never been so disappointed in a purchase! The colors were very flat :( I was so happy to get my old CRT monitor back! Perhaps it was just the model I tried ??? Love to hear more input on CRT vs LCD :) Dee-Marie