This monitor would power on, but the screen remained black.
So, I suspected it might be the power inverter that's causing this symptom.
I opened the case, and found several blown caps on the inverter or the power supply.
By the way, I forgot to picture the inverter PCB.
The blown ones were two Capxon 1000uf 25v caps and three Capxon 220uf 25V caps.
They were replaced by Rubycon caps with the same specs.
Now the monitor works perfectly.
So, I suspected it might be the power inverter that's causing this symptom.
I opened the case, and found several blown caps on the inverter or the power supply.
By the way, I forgot to picture the inverter PCB.
The blown ones were two Capxon 1000uf 25v caps and three Capxon 220uf 25V caps.
They were replaced by Rubycon caps with the same specs.
Now the monitor works perfectly.
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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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