I was given a Viewsonic VP211b non-working monitor. The screen was black and the power light would not come on.
I re-capped the power supply board and the power light now comes on but the video is bad. Faint vertical lines for a few seconds then goes black.
I'm going to scrap it unless someone needs something from it. The PS board also works in a VP201b monitor.
I re-capped the power supply board and the power light now comes on but the video is bad. Faint vertical lines for a few seconds then goes black.
I'm going to scrap it unless someone needs something from it. The PS board also works in a VP201b monitor.
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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