Stupidity vs Cleverness, the fallout....

To recover [B]some[/B] of my mental health and see at least [I]something[/I] good come out of all this, I am offering the following:
[LIST][*]The first one to PM me can have the guts of the monitor for free. Power board, main board, driver board, USB board, CFL board. Take one, take 'em all. It has the daughterboard on there as a repair and seems to work here on my bench, even with a cracked screen. [*]The second one to PM me gets an assembled and tested daughterboard, plus header pins for mounting. I'll also include a surface...

Stupidity vs Cleverness: Stupidity wins the day every time...

So with the help of this thread, I've been homing in on the problem with my 2405fpw. I was only getting 1.2V on the drain of the MOSFET, so I went the route of replacing D19, ripping out the MOSFET, caps, and coil, and putting an SMPS module in its stead (same as others have done on this thread).

Having a fancy Othermill and a DIY reflow oven, I decided to get fancier than tack-soldering in the SMPS. So I designed and milled a board, and then promptly destroyed the SMPS module when I was pulling it out...