Anand, your monitor probably has strong parasitic radiation due to decayed
filter capacitors and jams the remote receiver. Try to scope the IR rx
signal. An easy way is to put a 2mA LED in series with its pullup resistor
on the output. But this will not show glitches.

Peter

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