I have repaired 3 Viewsonic VP211b monitors.
The power light comes on but there is in picture. In all three cases it was the same problem. It was a blown fuse on the inverter board.
1. The monitor must be opened: The black plastic back is pried off carefully. It is easy to damage or crack. This will expose the electronics.
2. Remove the metal covers: The power main board has a metal cover that is secured with 4 screws. When that cover is removed, you can then remove the cover over the inverter.
3. Remove the inverter: The inverter is held with 1 screw. There are a total of 6 pairs of wires to the fluorescent lights (3 on each side) that must be disconnected from the inverter and a there is a power and control cable to the main board that must be disconnected. The inverter should now be free.
4. Test the fuses: On the inverter there are two tiny surfaced mounted fuses, labeled F1 and F2. They are on either side of the power cable CN1. Either one can be blown. Test them both with an Ohmmeter.
These fuses are 1.5 mm long, 1.0 mm wide and 0.5 mm high (Case Style 1206). They have the letters FN printed on them. The N is for 2 Amps and the F is for Very Fast Blow.
I replaced them with the same fuse, except Fast Blow rather than Very Fast Blow. The replacement fuse has just the letter N. The FN was not available at the time and I felt the N would be close enough. The fuses were made by LittleFuse. They were purchased from Newark Electronics. Part number 64R8010.
Prior to acquiring the surface mount caps, I tested the inverter board by soldering a regular fuse across the blown fuse and putting the inverter back into the monitor. The monitor came back to life. Normally when there is a fuse blows, it is because there is a short someplace down stream. How ever the new fuses have held. Therefor I am assuming it was just faulty fuses.
With the new surface mounted fuses, the repaired boards were placed into monitors and they all worked.
Can a user obtain and replace a back light? Check out the monitor on another computer and/or another monitor on this computer- simply to confirm computer[graphics card] or monitor Check also the data cables - for bent pins and the like.
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nope all this was already done. it is the monitor itself. there are several places a user can buy a back light. they tend to run 25-65 dollars
thanks but that's why i came here, to verify if anyone else was familir with this issue before i fell into that trap.
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