I picked up this monitor from a local computer supply shop for £30, advertised as faulty. Thought it'd make a nice complement to my 24" iiyama on my desk. Full HD 24" LED monitor, stupidly thin design.
I plugged it in and plugged a HDMI input into it but it just says no signal. On VGA it simply turns off the backlight after briefly flashing "Analog" in the corner.
I downloaded the firmware update from Samsung's website here
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/ow...oduct/S24A350H
and ran the program. It updated the firmware (took about 5 minutes) and the monitor powered off. Turned it on and the monitor works perfectly!
Amazing to think this almost got thrown away and it's so easy to fix. It runs off a 14V 2A power supply. I'm considering modding it to operate off a 11.1V LiPo battery which my model aircraft use. Will be interesting to fly (first person view) my aircraft with this in the field - 2ms update time!
I plugged it in and plugged a HDMI input into it but it just says no signal. On VGA it simply turns off the backlight after briefly flashing "Analog" in the corner.
I downloaded the firmware update from Samsung's website here
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/ow...oduct/S24A350H
and ran the program. It updated the firmware (took about 5 minutes) and the monitor powered off. Turned it on and the monitor works perfectly!
Amazing to think this almost got thrown away and it's so easy to fix. It runs off a 14V 2A power supply. I'm considering modding it to operate off a 11.1V LiPo battery which my model aircraft use. Will be interesting to fly (first person view) my aircraft with this in the field - 2ms update time!
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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