well I just dragged my very heavy and faulty monitor up a flight of steps and across a busy road to the repair shop, only to find that they don't fix monitors, only TVs. I should have checked first. There's a shop that sells reconditioned monitors for £30 on the other side of town but that would require getting a taxi there and back, though would still be at least £100 cheaper than ordering a new TFT monitor. I'm too knackered now to do anything about it... thank goodness for my ancient tiny ATM screen in the meantime