Re: Dell E173FPf

Haha yeah, I guess it doesn't help that through its leads it was acting as a sort of heatsink on the only part of the entire board that's discolored by heat-- from those two SMT transformer driver ICs!

Re: Dell E173FPf



Right... I also needed to prove to myself that buying caps was worthwhile because something else wouldn't overheat or burn soon after. When I took it apart again just now to make a shopping list, I see that lone 'xunda' cap is bulging. Poor soul... I guess he was just too high-strung... ...

Re: Dell E173FPf

Update: I can't find an Edit button so I guess I'll just bump... I forgot to mention in my first post that the 12V rail always measured around 12.2V, similar to goofy173's case. That was with a DMM; I wish I had a scope.

Anyway, I left it on for several days hooked to my machine that has DPMS disabled for presentations, and after leaving it off overnight, it reverted to the common "turns on slightly dim for 2 seconds, then off" symptom. I found by turning it on repeatedly that it would eventually warm up, stay on, and regain brightness......

Re: Dell E173FPf, it works! (so far)

I trash-dug this monitor early this morning and had basically identical symptoms with a near-identical board. The screen was very dim and would go dark within 20-30 seconds, after sliding out the CCFLs they were only flickering at the end with the leads. The most obvious differences between goofy173's board and mine are the silkscreen number being 790271200A00 instead of 790271200800, and my SyncMOS chip being soldered directly to the board instead of being socketed. Everything else looks the same.

Also, it's covered with Su'scon...