Sorry for a lack of pictures, but I just got it back together and really don't feel like taking it back apart to snap a few photographs 
The monitor is an LCD FPD2275W made by gateway. The invertor board and main power supply is seperate from the video board. The monitor would turn on, fully functional, and the backlight would fail within a few seconds. This was an office monitor, and I was tasked with purchasing a replacement, which I did. Instead of throwing away the old monitor, I was allowed to keep it.
Basically there was a bad 1000uF capacitor on the invertor board, and apparently this is a common issue with this monitor. The top of the cap had burst and it was leaking. I am typing this post on the newly repaired monitor.
Its amazing how such a relatively cheap part can turn a perfectly good monitor into an expensive paperweight.
The monitor is an LCD FPD2275W made by gateway. The invertor board and main power supply is seperate from the video board. The monitor would turn on, fully functional, and the backlight would fail within a few seconds. This was an office monitor, and I was tasked with purchasing a replacement, which I did. Instead of throwing away the old monitor, I was allowed to keep it.
Basically there was a bad 1000uF capacitor on the invertor board, and apparently this is a common issue with this monitor. The top of the cap had burst and it was leaking. I am typing this post on the newly repaired monitor.
Its amazing how such a relatively cheap part can turn a perfectly good monitor into an expensive paperweight.
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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