Re: Samsung 205BW bad connection problem?
Alexanna, thank you very much. The video cable is indeed a little loose. I guess when I plug it in, I accidentally pulled it a little bit. It is just out about .5mm.
Anyway, it works fine now. The LCD is actually brighter than before. Almost 100% brightness as when it was purchased. Before the re-cap, it was definitely less than 50% or even very dark sometime. Glad it works now.
Thanks all the members here.
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Re: Samsung 205BW bad connection problem?
Good idea. Sounds reasonable. I will double check, maybe reseat the video cable. Will report back.Leave a comment:
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Re: Samsung 205BW bad connection problem?
[B]Update: [/B]My caps arrived and I have replaced all six. I replaced them all. Now there is no video. Did I screw the monitor? I have soldering for over 15 years (amateur) and I was really careful. Now neither VGA or DVI works. The screen will light up immediately upon pressing the power button but just plain white. Pressing the menu button does nothing either, no English, German or anything. Anybody experienced this problem?
I did pay attention the polarity. It seems the Negative end have to match the negative end on the...Leave a comment:
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Re: Samsung 205BW bad connection problem?
Have you tried to replace all the caps? That might help.
Well, the bulbs might be a problem as well. I notice that my screen is about 50 to 70% of the original brightness. But I am using it as a back up screen anyway so I do not really care.Leave a comment:
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Thank you. I now understand. I just checked for the 1000uf and 25V Cap, they only have one size anyway. So I went ahead and placed the order. Only 5 bucks for all Caps. Not worthwhile to contribute to the local economy.
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Thank you, retiredcaps and Wrog. You sure got eagle eyes. The huge cap actually says 060916. I see 0638 on the yellow rectangle SPI thing. So that means the 34th week of 2006?
I bought the monitor at the end of 2006 and it began this problem in mid 2008 when it was still under warranty. As the problem was very random, I didnot call Samsung.
Great idea to replace them all. Now need to read PlainBill's post. Thanks again.
By the way, anybody know if there is a shop near Boston. I know everybody recommends...Leave a comment:
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I think I just be a victim of the Caps as well. I uploaded 3 pictures here. my eyes tell me that C328,C327, C265 might be bad. What a surprise.
Picture 4 and 5 are close-ups.
C328 and C327 are the two big ones. I see 1000uf 25V.
C265 is the tiny one besides the two big ones. It says 475uf 25V....Last edited by zoria; 10-27-2010, 06:50 PM.Leave a comment:
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Thank you, will do it asap.Leave a comment:
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Re: Samsung Syncmaster 225BW
PPMZ, my monitor got similar problem like yours, did you got it fixed?...Leave a comment:
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Samsung 205BW bad connection problem?
Thanks for a great forum. All my google searches on my monitor leads to this forum. I already searched and my problem seems to be a little different.
I bought the Samsung 205BW from staples new. It shows random problems such as.
1, sometimes pressing the menu button will not bring up the menu on screen or if it does, the menu will all be corrupted showing some texts that I do not understand.
2, sometimes, the lcd will be totally dead but let it sitting a few hours or days will bring it back to life.
3, VGA port seems to got poor connection problem...
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