Re: Faulty Monitor. Kinda works...

Ok great. I'll have a good look through that post now. In the mean time, here is a few pics. If you need a pic of a specific part of a specific one let me know and I'll do my best with my phone. I brought it to work with me so... ...

Re: Faulty Monitor. Kinda works...

Thanks for the reply...

I'll do my best to take some pictures for you tonight and upload tomorrow. I'm not sure which caps the 100uf ones are (would that be the label on them or a specific location on a certain board?), but none of the caps are buldging on the bits that I can see. The power board still has another protective metal plate over it which I haven't removed yet but the caps on the inverter board (as far as I'm aware is the left hand one) are fine...

Either way, I'll take as detailed pics as I can later....

Hi everyone, new member and first time poster here.

I have an Acer AL2416w monitor which is a bit faulty. I have noticed similar problems with this monitor on the forums but before anyone tells me to use the advice in the other posts, I thought I'd do my own post because I have a little more detail which may pinpoint the problem.

So a week ago, the screen started to get a little darker each day. By the 4th day, the whole left hand side was almost unreadable, only for me because I knew what the icons where without seeing the text below them. On the 5th day, I heard...