Re: I believe the caps are going bad in my Samsung T220, how long will it last?

Yep, I'll try and get to it sometime soonish. Only monitor I have at the moment, so I'll see what I can do.

Thanks.

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I'm new, and totally not a bot! Really!

The title says it all basically. How long will the capacitors last in their current state, if this is indeed the problem?

Here's the situation:

My T220's screen will turn off after a short duration following a power-on. The LED light remains on, so it's just the screen/backlight that turns off. The length of time it remains on before shutting off depends on the duration of time it was previously left powered down.

I currently get around this by, what I assume is, charging the capacitors a little. The T220 comes with the buttons on the right side for...