- Jul 8, 2013
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Hello. After much research on this site, I found that my problem, my monitor with no input or with input, blinking on and off (with screen blinking on and off also) was a power board capacitor.
I readied myself for some soldering and opened er up. Every single capacitor looks brand new. I have looked at every single capacitor in the darned thing and they all look fine.
This problem started fairly quickly. At first it was solved by continuously plugging and unplugging the power cable until it stayed on, and would stay on as long as I wanted to. Finally the thing wouldnt work after around an hour of trying so I gave up and used a smaller monitor with my comp. One day around a month later I got bored and decided to try the monitor. It came on immediately and worked for another week or so with me having to plug in and unplug the power cable repeatedly to get it on but it would work great with all buttons. If I powered it off with the button, and then hit the button again, all buttons would then become useless, and the only way to make it stop blinking on and off was to unplug it. Finally the thing just refused to come on permanently and I gave up until I had some time to open it up.
I know some capacitors break without showing physical signs, but I heard this was rare. Any advice?
It is a gateway 22" HD monitor from 2005. LCD
I readied myself for some soldering and opened er up. Every single capacitor looks brand new. I have looked at every single capacitor in the darned thing and they all look fine.
This problem started fairly quickly. At first it was solved by continuously plugging and unplugging the power cable until it stayed on, and would stay on as long as I wanted to. Finally the thing wouldnt work after around an hour of trying so I gave up and used a smaller monitor with my comp. One day around a month later I got bored and decided to try the monitor. It came on immediately and worked for another week or so with me having to plug in and unplug the power cable repeatedly to get it on but it would work great with all buttons. If I powered it off with the button, and then hit the button again, all buttons would then become useless, and the only way to make it stop blinking on and off was to unplug it. Finally the thing just refused to come on permanently and I gave up until I had some time to open it up.
I know some capacitors break without showing physical signs, but I heard this was rare. Any advice?
It is a gateway 22" HD monitor from 2005. LCD
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