Re: Acer AL2216W - 2 seconds to black

Many thanks for your reply.

I did push all the cables in to the maximum and I noticed that this one looked like is was not pushed as much as the other one... but it can't be pushed any further nonetheless. Just to be sure I'll give it another try tonight. I did read it could be the cause of the white screen so I checked it really carefully but who knows, I may have made a mistake somewhere.

I will also test the fuse, thanks. Just out of curiosity, what is it I'm looking for exactly (what does it mean if it varies or...

Re: Acer AL2216W - 2 seconds to black

Hi everyone,

Some news from this Acer AL2216W monitor.

I replaced the board with a brand new one and...

The display went completely white when switched on and plugged to the computer.

So I opened the monitor again and checked all connectors, cleaned them (saw the "eraser trick" on youtube), verified that they were all completely pushed in, closed the monitor again, plugged it to the mains and...

The monitor went flashing white, back to black, white again, repeating...

Re: Acer AL2216W - 2 seconds to black

I have found the following guide to "repairing soldered connections" and it doesn't look so fiendishly difficult after all : [url]http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repairing+Soldered+Connections/750[/url]

Does this look like a proper guide to you all?

(well there's of course the badcaps guides, for example [url]https://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=32[/url] , which I will follow as well, should I decide to do this myself)Re: Acer AL2216W - 2 seconds to blac... to "repairing

Re: Acer AL2216W - 2 seconds to black

Thank you.

I have posted a message to my friends to find a soldering iron and if possible some help with the actual job. If nobody jumps to my rescue then I'll just go to the repair shop as you suggested.

And I'll order the capacitors now.

Thanks!

Re: Acer AL2216W - 2 seconds to black

Brilliant!

Thank you so much!

Re: Acer AL2216W - 2 seconds to black

It does sound harsh.

Can't be bothered to dust my board? Well if I knew I had to, I would have... I actually only noticed the dust on the pictures after I had closed the monitor (not to let it open with parts everywhere in a room where kids, pets could wreak havoc) but I didn't know it was such a problem. I couldn't even suspect it would be considered bad etiquette not to dust it. I guess it would be worth mentioning in either the 2 seconds to black guide or even the photos guide. And did I mention it was the first time I ever opened...

Hello everyone,

I have experienced this "2 seconds to black" problem on my Acer AL2216W monitor a while ago and found this forum among the google search results.

It took me a few weeks to find enough courage to open my monitor and look inside. I had tinkered with my PC when I was much younger but I had never opened a monitor and so I was a bit scared.

But everything went ok and so here are the pictures.

To any expert who reads this, I am totally unable to see anything of interest in the pictures, so if you can, please express...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello everyone!
My name is Ferdinand and I have stumbled onto this - wonderful - forum when my precious monitor got infected with the "2 seconds to black" disease. I have now disassembled and reassembled it and will be posting pictures in an appropriate thread very shortly...