245bw with crazy colors

[pbrinks]

my 245bw recently died, and from reading another thread i was able to partially bring it back to life, by replacing 2 caps, and one of the 3 "problem" resistors(the other 2 tested fine).

The only issue i have now is that that colors are messed up, alot of green and black when windows boots, and just messed up colors once i get to the desktop. I have tested the monitor on multiple machines and with multiple cables, so i know the problem still lies within the monitor.

Is this a sign that i should replace the other 2 resistors even though they tested fine? should i look somewhere else? has anyone else come across this problem. thanks in advance.

[PlainBill]

Re: 245bw with crazy colors

This sounds like a problem on the signal board, possibly a corrupted EEPROM. What brand and series of caps did you use?

PlainBill

[pbrinks]

Re: 245bw with crazy colors

"1000UF 10V NICHICON RADIAL ELECTROLYTIC", ordered them off ebay, after replacing the 2 caps and resistor it fixed the "power buttons light up, but nothing on the screen" problem, but now i get the funky colors. I dont notice anything odd when i have nothing connected and i go through the monitors menus/when it flashes analog/digital, when looking for a signal, just once its connected to a pc.

Would a corrupted eeprom be a result of the caps going out? Out of all the threads ive read, youre the first to mention the eeprom.

[pbrinks]

Re: 245bw with crazy colors

actually, i think i was just having some bad luck, i started to mess around with the ribbon cable that has the black "bar clamp"(dont know the technical term), that secures it and the monitor would go to all white to black to black green every time i would power down/reboot/retry. Once i got it to "black"(with no green or white distortion), i wiggled all the other plugs and it started working properly. The two plugs i focused the most on was the one mentioned above, and the one that has the metal clips on each side to secure it(only one in there, looks like a tiny ide cable).

Thanks again, hope this helps, just re-check/re-seat all the cables if someone comes across this issue.