Help finding external display

I have had the same problem with my display this past week. It just stopped working! They just replaced the inverter (which is a non-returnable part), and it didn't fix the problem. I am going to have to pay $150 for nothing!! I want to buy an external display, and was wondering what brands worked best with my iMac. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks!! (Very frustrated with Apple!!! A computer should last longer than 29 months!!! Especially with the prices we paid for them!!!)
17" iMac G4 1.25GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) Pioneer DVD-RW/DVR-106D

Hmm, healed itself...
I didn't see that on the iMac G4 spec sheet!
Still as someone who works in the CIS world I always find it amazing how many faults are closed down with:
"No Fault Found":
"Power Cycled" (Switch off and on):
"Fault cleared during investigation"
etc.
Anyway good news and thanks for letting us all know.
mrtotes

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hi KazeShin,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
Here's a screenshot of the Lenovo G555 BIOS.
Spoiler (Highlight to read)
What you can try is to:
1. Press the power button and repeatedly tap F2 to get inside the BIOS.
2. From there, press the right arrow key once and press the down arrow key 9 times.
3. Power ON Display should now be highlighted. Press Enter key once and press the down arrow key once to select Auto-Selected display then press Enter.
4. Connect an external monitor via the VGA cable Press F10 to save and exit BIOS. Upon reboot, the display should automatically transfer to an external monitor.
5. If that doesn't work, press Fn+F3 to shift to an external display.
Hope this helps.
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