Re: ACER AL2423W - no display

Thanks for your help so far. I'm pretty confident I can do all this, as long as I can find the right parts. Does anyone have a schematic for this board? I tried searching for one last night but no luck...

Also I'd like to know where all that heat came from too, so I can be sure that replacing these caps will prevent it from happening when I plug it in again. Anyone got any ideas?

Re: ACER AL2423W - no display

Can't seem to edit my post... Oh well, here's another picture of the board from a different angle:...

Re: ACER AL2423W - no display

I have the same monitor, and after 3.5 years of faithful service, it's finally given up. It started hissing/beeping (blowing cap sound), so I turned it off, then turned it on again and got no picture and the beeping was still going, so I turned it off again.

Now I've taken it apart, and it is pretty clear where the culprit lies:



It's the biggest capacitor on the PCB, marked "C1".

When I touched the back of the screen as I started to take it apart, I noticed it was very hot to touch....