Re: Samsung SynchMaster 214T, Princeton LCD19D and VL1919

Retiredcaps:

I have borrowed a picture of the PS, don't remember where I got it, I've done alot of looking recently. I replaced all caps except the big one ,100uf 400v with Nichicon caps. The Video PCB caps were G-luxon 330uf 16v replaced with Nichicon PW series quantity (7). I don't have a photo of the Video PCB...should have snapped one when it was disassembled.

As I said, right now it is working but gives me problems on turn on. I currently have 4 monitors...all Princeton VL1919 and all turn...

Re: Samsung SynchMaster 214T, Princeton LCD19D and VL1919

Hello all,

I have a Princeton Vl1919 that blinks for several minutes and finally turns on and all is well. It has the TDK version power supply and I have recapped the entire PS PCB and replaced the known cruddy LUXON caps on the logic/video PCB as well. Still acts flaky on turn on sometimes. Sometimes it fires up first time. I have repaired 2 others and after recap they are great! Voltages on the regulators are 5.02 an 11.85. All that's left without dragging out the scope are the other caps on the video PCB and...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello all,

I confess I am a veteran...you guess how old! My first CPU like some here was also a VIC 20 with a tape drive. No where near a computer in my eyes. So I upgraded to a C64 with color monitor and DUAL floppy drives. You can see where this is headed can't you now? Well many years of upgrades and toiling at saving money at Harware hacking for a few more MHZ has landed me here with a quad core AMD and 8 GBytes of ram and 3 monitors and a RAID here and there.

I have been fixing things since...