Re: Dell SE198WFPf - Backlights go off after 2 seconds
Ok, I've now had 2 different Dell SE198WFP monitors with the same problem and I had to read numerous posts on numerous blogs looking for a solution before I actually figured it out, everything that I'd read suggested bad capacitors on the inverter board (and I'm sure that's an issue, but it wasn't mine). After replacing all of the caps on the inverter I still had the same problem.
Long story short, I found (on both of my SE198WFP monitor's) that at least one of the four CCFL backlight tubes had a burnt wire on...
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