Monitor fuse?

Stormwalker

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I have a 17" Aopen lcd that "died" on me recently, and I ordered a 19" Acer lcd to replace it. I walked up to my computer one day and the 17" was not powered on (I had left it on) and it wouldn't turn on again. I figured I'd pull it apart just to have a look, and it all appears to be fine, but I also found a fuse. I really wonder if that's not the culprit, and I'd like to try popping a new fuse in there to see if it fires up, but I'm not really sure where to find a fuse like this. It's one of the cylindrical fuses that's held in on each end by a clip, pretty small. Usually I see this type made out of glass, but this one looks like white paper surrounding it? So I can't really tell if it's burnt or not. The board states it's a 2.5A/250V (I believe). Does anyone know what type of a store I should look for to get this thing? I'm thinking the local hardware store won't carry something like this. Might Radioshack have something like this?
Thanks for any help!
 
First take a multimeter to it and figure out if it is really dead. The resistance on the fuse should read just a couple ohms if it is working and will read OL if it isn't.
 
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