Apple 27" cinema display has died I think, after 5 hours!!!

I finally took delivery of my new Mac pro and cinema display today and after 5 hours use the screen has gone blank, and I can't get any life from it! I can't believe this has failed after only 5 hours use! Is there any way I can confirm it is the screen and not the graphics card or Mac. Has any one else had this issue with this display. I well and truely gutted, got to wait for a new one to be sent.

Are you sure it's the monitor that went out? Or has your mac pro "shut down"? "Shut down" in this case can mean a full shut down -- power light out, no fans running, totally off. Or it may be (and I experienced this -- more about that in a moment) power light on, and maybe a single exhaust fan running?
Full power off, nothing running, could be the most serious. I have no ideas about that.
Power light on, a single exhaust fan running is probably a thermal cutoff. It may be your video card is overheating. I experienced this because about 5% of the time the fan motor in my video card would not start (bad bearing or bad lubrication?). Card would overheat, monitor went black when the machine thermal cutoff. But it would always take less than 5 minutes for the card to overheat. Not 5 hours. So I am not sure it's the same problem as you have.
If your machine is still fully on -- all fans running, then maybe it is just a bad monitor. Or as you say it could still be the video card. But I think only applecare would need to diagnose any of these problems.
Note, in my case applecare did not diagnose my problem, I did. And it was only by accident because one time I just happened to be looking at the video card just after booting and noticed the video cooling fan wasn't running.

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