Hey, everyone. My Samsung 245BW died the other day, making me quite sad. No problems at all, not even a flicker during the five years I had it, then all of a sudden, black screen. The power LED remained on, but nothing showed up at all. I was going to throw it out, but someone suggested it might just be a bad capacitor or two in there, so I went and opened it up.
And I have no idea what I'm looking for. I'm very new to electronics repair and only recently begun to learn how to solder at all. So everything in here is pretty much completely foreign to me.
I've added some pictures I took (sorry for the quality, lousy camera + shaky hands + bad angle, I can retake them if needed). The capacitors all look the same to me, so I'm beginning to wonder if any of them are bad after all. Further, I'm really not sure how to test them. So I guess my questions are:
1) At a quick glance, does anything look like it's at fault here?
2) How do you test individual components to find out? All I have is a multimeter.
2a) Where do you even begin to test said components? Just pick one and work your way from there?
The only thing I saw that even looks weird to me is in the first and last picture. It looks like one of the pins of one of the chips (circled in red) doesn't have solder on it. I can't imagine that sort of thing just falls off, so it's probably always been that way, so I doubt that could be the issue... could it?
And I have no idea what I'm looking for. I'm very new to electronics repair and only recently begun to learn how to solder at all. So everything in here is pretty much completely foreign to me.
I've added some pictures I took (sorry for the quality, lousy camera + shaky hands + bad angle, I can retake them if needed). The capacitors all look the same to me, so I'm beginning to wonder if any of them are bad after all. Further, I'm really not sure how to test them. So I guess my questions are:
1) At a quick glance, does anything look like it's at fault here?
2) How do you test individual components to find out? All I have is a multimeter.
2a) Where do you even begin to test said components? Just pick one and work your way from there?
The only thing I saw that even looks weird to me is in the first and last picture. It looks like one of the pins of one of the chips (circled in red) doesn't have solder on it. I can't imagine that sort of thing just falls off, so it's probably always been that way, so I doubt that could be the issue... could it?
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