Re: dell 2005fpw rolling display until warm

Thanks for the quick reply, I'm off next week so probably won't take a look until Friday...
The dell monitor gave me 3 or 4 years of good service until it started to have the warm up problems. Right now I'm just keeping it on, almost afraid to turn it off.

I just finished fixing my Gateway FPD2485W/LP2407 with the 2 seconds to black problem and while I was waiting for parts I pulled out my old Dell 2005fpw display that works but was put in retirement because it would take 5-10 minutes to warm up and during that time the display would be compressed to use only the middle third (horizontally) of the screen and would be rolling vertically (thinking it looks like playing with the vertical hold on old TVs) eventually the display would become less and less compressed until it gets to is full width while the rolling slows down and eventually, about a minute...

Re: Gateway 24" LCD Model LP2407

Thanks guys, I was experiencing 2 seconds to black and just finished replacing all the capacitors on the power (nearly all bulging) and inverter boards(both bulging)... all with panasonic FM's except the two 50V (47uF and 10uF for C876 and C857 in prior pictures) where my choices were FC's, or use the ones posted previously... digikey 493-3288-ND (Nichicon TS) and 565-1598-ND (United Chemi-Con KY). I had a harder time removing the caps from the inverter since the caps there lie flat with bent leads and had no rocking leverage (is there a trick/tip...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

hello, I'm currently residing in Phoenix and am grateful for all the prior posts relating to my gateway LP2407/FPD2485W which recently came down with the 2 seconds to black illness. I'm confident that I'll soon cure it.

I may also try to cure my recently deceased asus A8V that I used to use as a file server.

-Larry