Re: Samsung SyncMaster T240HD flickering backlight, then 2 seconds to black


It's from April 2009. I was not able to enter the system menu, because none of the combinations I found in all those forums seemed to work. Or I was just not able to see it, because the screen is black anyway.


How can I check if the CCFL tubes are the problem? I tried it each with only one of the cables attached (for the upper half and for the lower half of the screen) but it always was the same behaviour.


Done. Unfortunately this didn't make it any better,...

Hello everybody,

eventually my good ol' SyncMaster T240HD is affected by the infamous 2 seconds to black like many others out there... A bit more factual, this is what happened / happens:

For some months now, occasionally the display flickered for some minutes after turning it on. By flickering I mean, that the picture from my PC was clear and crisp as always, but the brightness was varying quickly. The flickering only occured after turning on the display and always stopped after a while. The problem was not reproducible, so it did not occur everytime.
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Hi everybody,

I'm new to component level fixing and my only experience with soldering some of those funny little things together was at shool. It was fun, but I didn't think I would be doing it ever again.

However, I realized how much trash is produced by throwing away electronic devices because they are "broken". And I mean broken in a way, where the device seems to be in a marvelous condition, except for "that one little component" that burned away or was malproduced. So I'm...