Starlogic 20 inch widescreen monitor scr...

Posted by louie12fix on Mar 09, 2009

bbkieffer, It sounds like a possible printed circuit board could have failed inside your monitor. You failed to tell if the light in the power on/off button shows any activity??? Some of these LCD monitors do have problems with their power supplys. Every LCD Display has two types of supplys in them. One requires that the first one is working. The main powersupply powers up two things. 1. the digital interface board for the digital info processing that is what you see on the screen, and 2. it also supplies low voltage to operate what is called an inverter power supply that generates high voltage 1000v-1500v to light the cold cathode Fluorescent backlight tubes that let you see what is on the screen. Yes, they are very similar to the new style of curlie-que screw-in light bulbs--- only the tubes are straight ones and run left to right in back of your LCD/FPD!!! You will need to contact Starlogic to find out if they have a monitor swapout program where you send them your nonworking monitor + some cash and they send you a REFURBISHED replacement. Or you could hunt down some local TV/Monitor repair shop that knows how to repair/replace CCF tubes and knows all about switch-mode and inverter supplies. Good luck on this mission, I'm louie12fix on fixya. or lmistyrel @ aol.com. BYE!