So I just got a dell e228 wfp. upon turning on it lights up for a sec then goes off. I checked the CCFL's and they are good. I shined a light through the lcd and have picture. I tossed the power/ ccfl inverter board into the freezer and it stays on till it get hot

Re: Weird color switching- Dell e171fp

I've replaced all the caps on the inverter, power supply, and I guess the logic board, I would send pics but my camera really sucks at fine detail

Re: Weird color switching- Dell e171fp

Here are the pics...

I've got an older dell 17" monitor that will sometimes change its color. its running in 1280x1024@60hz. I am fairly sure its not the video card or vga cable because I have ran a samsung (710 mp) 17" on the same exact system earlier in the day.

sometimes it will switch back and forth rather quickly, sometimes the picture stays good and sometimes it look like its monochrome (of course now that I am trying to get a pic of it in "monochrome" its staying good, with a few teases). there seems to be no pattern in the color switching, i.e. it can be bad immediately after...

Re: convergence problem 42h82

yep its a toshiba

My old Big screen tv started acting weird, the whole screen will sometimes be entirely horizontal lines (which they will switch from red horizontal lines to blue and back). I've read a little on this and what I am seeing is to replace the SMT caps, and was wondering how do you identify values on SMD caps?

the caps I am looking at replacing are:
u4
100
16v

2b
10
16v

t1
100
6v

i am assuming theses are all 16v and 6v, 100uf and 10uf, but what does u4, 2b, and t1 mean???