Re: Xerox XA7-19i Died

I recapped the board with Panasonic FMs except the big 100 mF 400v one because I can get the caps easily, but that made no difference, so looks like CCFLs.

The monitor has always behaved exactly as tom66 describes. Running moninfo shows that the monitor is declaring itself as analogue on the EDID message. It is dual EDID so it has to look for a digital signal and defaults to putting out an analogue message if it doesn't find one. The snag is I haven't the least idea why it doesn't find one on my Gigabyte 7300 GS card via the DVI-I connector....

Re: Xerox XA7-19i Died

Thanks for all that. There is a tinge of pink on the PlainBill CCFL test, which fades away in a few seconds - does that make the CCFL the clear favorite or are the caps still worth a try? As I don't have access to a good CCFL for a test, I'll have to buy new and they don't seem too cheap in the UK, so prefer not to jump the wrong way.

My Xerox XA7-19i died after several years without a flicker, even if it never would operate in digital mode with a DVI card. No warning except slight disturbance of the picture earlier in the day. It just went black and since then will operate for a few seconds before going black again.

Go easy because I am not that experienced in electronics and have never looked inside one of these before... The power card looks pretty good - nothing scorched, just a little heat stain in one section. I reflowed connections for most of the old style discrete components - transformers, inductors,...