Re: ASUS ve205 goes black



I don't have an ESR meter of the money to buy one. Or the money to buy a new monitor for that matter. Anyway, the fuse I jumped is on the inverter board, it's the same board as one that was pictured earlier in this thread.

[url]https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=36275&d=1330701772[/url]

It's just below the power cord plug.

I've read so much info on 2 seconds to black, and I really think this board is an exception to what is normally the cause.

I think...

Re: ASUS ve205 goes black

I have the same problem as many others with the same monitor. The screen goes black after about a second after it it's turned on. I noticed that before this happened the screen would flicker.

After much research, I've found that no one has found a fix. Except a few who have had bad bulbs. There has been much discussion about bad capacitors, but that seems to be a dead end. I tested my caps using an old school method with an ohmeter, and they seem fine.

I think I did make a little progress though. As a last ditch effort to fix...