[Fradow]

He's talking about a 12 years-old screen that probably saw daily use. Something failing at that point is more than expected.

As others have noted, it's in fact probably bad capacitors, which is a really common issue for electronics of that era. I also encountered that several times, it's a quick fix if you know how to solder new ones, and you can find such capacitors for cheap (like 1$ cheap last time I had to look, though finding that price for a single one is hard, and much less when bought in bulk).