I pulled a 15" dELL flat panel monitor from the dumpster at work. It looked brand new. I plugged it into a spare pc and the screen flashed for one second and went black, but I could see the screen is still working.
Never had opened a LCD screen before but wanted to learn. I found one bad radial cap and pulled it. Ordered a set of six 1000uf's at a cost of $5.39 delivered and resoldered a new cap in.
The monitor works great now.
After my wife saw this monitor, she wanted it for her pc, because the frame on this LCD is smaller than her old one.
Total cost for the cap alone was $.18.
The hard part was getting the LCD monitor apart without breaking it apart.
Never had opened a LCD screen before but wanted to learn. I found one bad radial cap and pulled it. Ordered a set of six 1000uf's at a cost of $5.39 delivered and resoldered a new cap in.
The monitor works great now.
After my wife saw this monitor, she wanted it for her pc, because the frame on this LCD is smaller than her old one.
Total cost for the cap alone was $.18.
The hard part was getting the LCD monitor apart without breaking it apart.
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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