Hullo all, please be gentle with me as its my first post and my electrical knowledge is very basic but I'm willing to learn.
I've read the stickied post, and to be fair without pics most of it sailed over my head, but I've tested what I can.
The monitor initially started to go black occasionally when being first turned on, a simple power on and off would then rectify it and it would be fine again for days or weeks. These instances became more frequent until finally power cycling would not solve it.
After ruling out the GFX card and cabling the next logical step was the monitor itself.
On initially opening her up, I noticed a rusty area on the chassis, as the monitor has been nowhere near a water source I guessed (from what I'd read) that a cap must have leaked.
After looking at the PSU board though I cannot see anything obvious, there are no stains and no caps look to be bulging or have any discernible residue on them, just a bit of dust.
So I put her back together, no surprise the result is the same, then started researching via Google.
I've since given her the torch test and the image is still visible so I'm guessing again that power is not the issue and its the backlight.
Anyway, I'm now looking for your insights into what to test next to find the root problem.
I have a digital multimeter, capacitance meter and a soldering station (none are expensive but worked fine for me when modifying games consoles or anything with LEDs for friends/family in the past) but my knowledge of their use is very limited so need instructions dumbing down a bit.
hope the attached pics are good enough, look forward to any replies
I've read the stickied post, and to be fair without pics most of it sailed over my head, but I've tested what I can.
The monitor initially started to go black occasionally when being first turned on, a simple power on and off would then rectify it and it would be fine again for days or weeks. These instances became more frequent until finally power cycling would not solve it.
After ruling out the GFX card and cabling the next logical step was the monitor itself.
On initially opening her up, I noticed a rusty area on the chassis, as the monitor has been nowhere near a water source I guessed (from what I'd read) that a cap must have leaked.
After looking at the PSU board though I cannot see anything obvious, there are no stains and no caps look to be bulging or have any discernible residue on them, just a bit of dust.
So I put her back together, no surprise the result is the same, then started researching via Google.
I've since given her the torch test and the image is still visible so I'm guessing again that power is not the issue and its the backlight.
Anyway, I'm now looking for your insights into what to test next to find the root problem.
I have a digital multimeter, capacitance meter and a soldering station (none are expensive but worked fine for me when modifying games consoles or anything with LEDs for friends/family in the past) but my knowledge of their use is very limited so need instructions dumbing down a bit.
hope the attached pics are good enough, look forward to any replies
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