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Well here is a test you can do. When the monitor goes black, take a flash light and hold at it a angle towards the monitor, if you can still faintly see the image then you have a blacklight/inverter issue. Another common issue with this is the capacitors on the inside. They will also cause this. If you dont see an image then the inverter will need replacing. As the steps for replacing all of this are quite long, ill post a few helpful tuts :).
For replacing the backlight:
http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/shorts/overview.aspx
For checking/replacing bad capacitors:
http://www.wizardanswers.com/liquidvideorepair.html
I know these arent your monitor but its generally the same idea with all of them. If this doesnt work it will be a inverter issue and if it comes to that just let me know and ill be glad to help :D
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Jul 15, 2009
- Alrighty looks like the power is the problem here. So with that lets talk about opening it up first. Most monitors now are held together by pressure tabs. Its tricky trying to get them to open but if you take something with a flat end, like a nice skinny flathead screwdriver it works quite well getting the two halfs apart. Just be sure not to hurt any components on the inside! Make sure you have all the screws removed from the shell as well. After that usually the parts are in a metal casing which is easy to get open (just more screws). Once you get these two open, look at the boards very carefully, looking for bad capacitors (they are bad when they are buldging at the top), burn marks, or other signs of damage. Sometimes it can still be as simple as replacing a cap. Go through these simple steps and if you see no signs of damage on caps and such ill tell you what you need to replace the inverters and how to do it. Remember this does take a bit of patience.
