Been trying to repair my monitor's circuit board. There are many ceramic capacitors the side of a needle head. Unfortunately, I don't have a steady hand, and after many trials, the solder from both sides of the capacitor are gone, and I can't get any new ones to stick. I'm not an expert, so I don't know exactly how an electrical connection is established. Is it where the soldering is supposed to be? If so, I might have burned through the board. I see the yellow/orange color and no sign of circuitry where the solder used to be. Actually, I'm trying to solder back a resistor that I removed to test...

Re: Dell E228WFPC goes dim after 10 minutes, not 2 seconds

Well, glad to say I fixed my Samsung Took a while, but got it done. As for the Dell, because from what I read, seemed like the resister fix was for me, and not C806, I tried it. It works, but the left side like another user gradually gets dark, and C806 seems to fix this. Not sure if I should remove the resistor, but I'll be ordering the part for C806. At least I know that C806 seems to fix MOST of this Dell's model despite symptoms.

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Well, I finally busted out the soldering iron. I bet most of you could have salvaged and replaced 2 caps in 5 minutes. It took me probably close to an hour because I was nervous and my my soldering iron was a cheap 30W and halfway, and I had a lot of problems getting the old solder to flow. Took me a while to remember you should put some new solder on top of the old one. Well good news. I got my old monitor to work. I know I used crappy capacitors. Not only were they from a CRT older than 10 years, but they were Elite brand at...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hey everyone. I'm about to experiment with soldering today! I consider myself generally tech saavy when it comes to electronics. I've built several PCs, but soldering individual components is a whole new level. Even understanding circuitry and what each component does is a whole new level I can't imagine I'll ever get to. I never really had a need to solder until my 22" LCD died and googled for ways to fix it. What got me excited was reading about the capacitor plague and finally bumping into this forum. It seemed easy enough...

Re: Dell E228WFPC goes dim after 10 minutes, not 2 seconds

Hey guys. I know this is old, but hopefully someone can steer me towards the right direction. I naively bought this monitor from a Goodwill Outlet Store since my Samsung LCD died. I plugged it in and the boot diagnostic graphic showed and disappeared after 2 secs. I thought this was normal until I plugged in via both vga and dvi onto my computer and same thing: 2 seconds of my desktop each time I power on. Picture looks great as long as it lasts. I had poor lighting so I'm not sure if the backlight just turns off, and of...