Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
I can most definitely FORCE the correct resolution onto the monitor and it will work, the problem lies when it doesnt have the correct timing and shit and cant make the fonts look nice and whatnot. Because it HONESTLY believes that it is a 17inch acer.
Though, yeah, I FIGURE I could get the EDID data from another 22in monitor and write it to mine without any real issue I guess - problem is I would need the software to write to the monitor and possibly need some sort of connection or EEPROM programmer to...
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
GOOOOOOO CAPITALISM!!
Also, poor cheaply made products! Nothing like getting electronics with capacitors that are not meant to survive but a single day outside of the warranty!
Hahhaah!
Thanks for all of your help though ahead of time. This has been a super frustrating issue to me but just knowing that people are giving advice and helping has made it a lot more bearable....Leave a comment:
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
No clue. I could always take a picture of that too - but honestly, at this point, if it fails in another few years, Ill just buy a new monitor. By that time, LED monitors will have become the standard and Ill just end up replacing it with a much nicer version.
Hahaha....Leave a comment:
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
Well, most places around here that sell soldering irons are pretty crappy, unless I do an online order. Im in the USA, and houston, so there are plenty of places, but none I could get for under $10 easy. I think the last one I had was from Radio Shack and it was a huge piece of junk...same with the solder. Id have to find something at a specialty tech place, and even then, i dont think it would be under $20 easy for everything (iron + solder).
I can most definitely get you a better pic of the board when...Leave a comment:
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
When I get home, Ill take apart the monitor again (piece of junk plastics) and post pictures of it.
And Id still have to go out and BUY a soldering iron, solder AND flux. Honestly, I just dont have very steady hands AT ALL or I wouldve replaced the caps on the power/inverter board myself. Generally with a soldering iron I tend to burn myself and things around me. Also, I used to do cable soldering in the US Air Force but it wasnt small components but larger pieces...and even then...I was BAD...hahaha...
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
This is where it gets tricky for me - as Im generally a L1 and L2 tech. This is almost getting into the realm of L3 with messing with the internal components of a board.
How would I know which pins to short on my LCM-22w3? I would have to find some sort of technical schematics for the board right? And there, identify which pins? I think I still have my multimeter at home, to pull readings off of, but then how do I short it? Soldering (Im TERRIBLE at soldering)?
Ugggg. This sounds...Last edited by Xaeonis; 06-07-2012, 05:04 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
Okay okay. I think we are getting into the realm of crap that I can handle, but seems like a really hard thing for me to get into.
I completely understand that bad caps can trash other components. Understood and acknowledged.
Could I, by myself, without any unique equipment, short these pins and bring the monitor to reset the EEPROM data?
If not, how would I go about reprogramming it from the computer? I mean, Im sure there are EEPROM data writers out there for monitors, but...Leave a comment:
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
Both of those fail to yield solutions to anything.
The first one has nothing but registry edits in it, and if the EDID is off, then the registry fixes arent going to fix something thats obviously wrong with the monitor's reporting information.
The second one stops abruptly when no one yields a response.
I spent about 2-3 hours last night googling all sorts of key words and phrases including but not limited to "LCM-22w3"+"AL1714" and incorrect resolution and...Leave a comment:
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
The monitor settings arent proving useful at all. Nothing Ive changed in the settings are allowing it to work properly. It still not identifying as a 22in westinghouse in EDID. I even got an EDID viewer just to see - [url]http://entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm[/url] - and it reports the information as an Acer 1714. So the EDID of the monitor must be jacked.
A linux boot CD I dont think would change anything, as I honestly dont believe this is a windows problem at this point. I mean, its a generic pnp monitor without drivers,...Last edited by Xaeonis; 06-07-2012, 04:42 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
Used both a DVI cable and a VGA cable. Both of them fail.
Tried on 3 computers, all running win7x64 - DVI on 2 of them, dvi +vga on the 3rd. All report the monitor as a AL1714 (some acer 17inch monitor) through EDID. None of them would report the correct resolution through it.Leave a comment:
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LCM-22w3 new board, but display problems
This is the story of my LCM-22w3 that had bad capacitors and how I came to find that there is absolutely no solution anywhere online for this very common problem.
I originally found out my monitor had bad caps when it was doing that on, off, orange light, high pitched squeeling sound turning on. I knew the monitor was going bad, so I looked up guides and info and whatnot. Most everyone pointed at the power/inverter board. I took it apart and lo and behold! Bad caps. Puffy, all out, etc.
Since I am TERRIBLE at soldering, and most places for a 'repair' of the caps wanted...
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