Re: Dell 2405FPW intermittent power fault

Thank you, Sir. That sounds like a plan, and i think with the help of some card stock i should be able to separate the boards functionally so i can warm one without heating the other too much. I will get back to you with the results, and thanks again.

Eric.

Hi, searched for a thread that might give me the answers, with out having to start a new thread, but found nothing posted that match the exact problem I am having.

Bought the monitor W/computer second hand a week ago. The first time I had the monitor powered on for less than 30 min with no problem. The next time it was powered up for about 45 min and I lost power. With in 2 or 3 seconds the monitor powered back on and worked for another 20 min until i shut it down. Over the next few days this problem became worse - losing power sooner and taking longer to come back on line. I had...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi, I'm Eric, and of the generation that allowed my first introduction to electronics at age 12 to be the just introduced Fairchilds gaming system, and a little later the VIC20. I attended the South-West School of Electronics in Austin Tx. in the mid 80's. I took a job at Thunderware, a northern California company founded and run by a retired electronics engineer from Lawrence Livermore lab. He had designed an optical reading device that could be used with the one dot matrix printer made by Apple at the time. The reader was plugged...