Re: Gateway FPD1976W - Power button flickers

Sorry to for the thread necromancy, but after a year, Google pulled up my thread here, and I was lucky enough to remember my password!

The flickering power button was a fluke - it was actually the network activity icon inside WindowsXP's taskbar blinking the was the culprit!

Anyway, after 3 years of rock solid performance, a new issue has cropped up in the last month: the OSD/Menu in the lower right corner appears all by itself. Sometimes, it displays the "Menu" (i.e "Auto", "Brightness",...

Re: Gateway FPD1976W - Power button flickers

Those were before - the only after pic is the last. The caps I replaced are the 6 around the mosfet heatink in the center of the PCB that follow a \ and / slashing pattern. Those 6 were replaced with the back and yellow caps I ordered from Scott. At first, I didn't think they were Panasonics because all I saw on them in terms of logo was a fancy "M" that reminded me of Realtek's crab logo. Then I remembered "Panasonic" is just the American name for Matsushita in Japan. The one I was missing from the kit was the tiny...

Re: Gateway FPD1976W - Power button flickers

Now you're talking -- my lawnmower could use that extra gallon of gas!

Here's the pics ... and they're worthless ...

Last person to use didn't set it to max resolution ... ...

Re: Gateway FPD1976W - Power button flickers

I intent to, but I'd hate to see him do that for just 1 cap. I might have to order his kit for an OptiQuest Q9-2 some day, so he could pop that cap in there at his leisure if/when that happens ...

Re: Gateway FPD1976W - Power button flickers

No experience. No testing equipment. Total noobsauce here, and $15 to roll the dice using one of Scott's (LCDAlternatives) was the farthest thing from horrifying. The unit had been unplugged and on my desk collecting cobwebs for 18 months, wasn't disassembled, and judging from other posts here, I was either gonna have 1 capacitor short or 1 capacitor too many despite Scott's efforts to stay on top of it all. Sure enough 1 capacitor short, but it was a smaller 47uf 25v capacitor just above the largest one. Unlike every cap grouped near...

Hi there. I recall posting in another multi-page thread regarding this LCD and finally got around to recapping the inverter on Monday. Here it's the following Saturday and just a moment ago, I could've swore I saw the power button LED flicker to orange for about 1.5 seconds and back to blue. Thinking the LCD was about to puke, I sat here sipping coffee and watched the power button. The blue LED flickered again - that time briefly off and on.

Is there any known issue with this button in other Gateway FPD models? I hope its no real cause for alarm. Heck, I hope it was my eyes playing...

Re: Gateway fpd1975w

I've got a Gateway FPD1976W that was doing the same thing for the month I had it (given to me for free by my daughter's great grampa because it blinked on and off on him) until 4 days ago when I woke up to the blue botton blinking on and off.

When I eventually did get it fire back up and stay lit (by completely unplugging and draining it of power for 30 seconds), it was a grayish white screen and the OSD buttons didn't work at all. No warning in the corner about native resolution either. Pressed the power button and it never came on again....