Static shock fried my monitor

[tomiboy59]

Hey, I don't really have a question, but I'm just posting this freak accident that happened. I have a NEC LCD monitor, the Multisync 1765, I went to turn it on, and i got a static shock. It was a huge shock too, it actually sort of hurt. But the monitor didn't turn on after that, so I'm figuring it fried. Has anyone ever heard of this happening to a monitor before? I know it happens to computer sometimes, but even then, I never heard of something being fried through the case by static electricity.

[Rikky]

Was it one big shock or small pulses,like a buzzer? :

[tomiboy59]

It was one big shock.

[gman4dx266]

Our old cabinet TV from the 70's used to do that with the metal buttons....but an LCD?!!?!?

[goldfish]

Static? You sure? Might be a cap discharging into your hand (ouch), or somthing of that nature but I doubt it was static, unless its made of highly polished nylon or somthing. Even then, you wouldn't get a huge shock from it, because you'd need some sort of conductor to take the electrons from the surface.

[tomiboy59]

Well maybe it wasn't static, but all I know is that when i went to turn it on, I got shocked and it doesn't work now. The computer was on, and i was gone for like an hour, so i turned off the monitor. So it was working an hour before. I got a service plan from best buy on it though, so i'll be getting it fixed this weekend when i go home. It's rough not having a computer for a week. This is such weird incident.