Opened up my monitor; Update

[Ak-47]

Opened it up just now(what a nice doggy! to do), and I'm looking at the 2 main drivers(I guess you could call them). One has this sketchy white gooey stuff on it, and the other appears to be fine. The bigger one(main one I assume) has the substance, and I'll try to upload pictures.

 

 

 

Where should I go from here?

 

 

Thanks!

 

paging @FREEDOM

[20000_Posts]

If you could post a picture of the board and then all the caps you bought. I think I posted a youtube video that walks you through it.

 

Maybe Bob-Sama can help too. Idk how to tag people.

 

And yea it sounds like a cap exploded. I had a friend that had one explode in his computer's PSU, yellow goo everywhere. Sounds like yours has been up to some mischief. ;) But yea I'd try to wipe off what you can. http://www.ehow.com/how_7577496_clean-circuit-boards-leaking-capacitors.html

Edited July 3, 2013 by FREEDOM

[Ak-47]

If you could post a picture of the board and then all the caps you bought. I think I posted a youtube video that walks you through it.

 

Maybe Bob-Sama can help too. Idk how to tag people.

 

And yea it sounds like a cap exploded. I had a friend that had one explode in his computer's PSU, yellow goo everywhere. Sounds like yours has been up to some mischief. ;) But yea I'd try to wipe off what you can. http://www.ehow.com/...capacitors.html

 

Got some really shizzlety pictures. Also wrote down all the Caps I need, so I can get the proper repair kit. Although this might be more work then it's worth :/

 

 

 

http://imgur.com/uHyaeAE,dsceMT4,AKzlx9J,qWSZ9X8,MWV3lUC,sAcbqfQ,Ot7Hjei#5 Is the album with some pictures. Some of them are really crappy, I took others on my Dad's Galaxy(That's some crisp-ass quality) that I'll upload in a bit once he lets me borrow his phone for like 5 minutes ;p

[20000_Posts]

Looks like only one blown cap? Or am I missing something from the beautiful crisp pictures? :P

 

The way I see it is you can give it a shot for five bucks, best case it works and you've saved yourself $100. Worst case it goes back to being unusable and you're only out $5 and you should start looking for a new monitor. But it's worth a shot I think.

[Bob-sama]

Opened it up just now(what a nice doggy! to do), and I'm looking at the 2 main drivers(I guess you could call them). One has this sketchy white gooey stuff on it, and the other appears to be fine. The bigger one(main one I assume) has the substance, and I'll try to upload pictures.

 

 

 

Where should I go from here?

 

 

Thanks!

 

paging @FREEDOM

That top-left purple cap looks leaky. Check the levels on the other caps too--a flat-head screwdriver can do fine there. If they're bulging, replace em. Double-check those three FETs attached to the heatsinks. Don't worry about the white goo--it's usually glue used to insulate components from each other. Do make sure the coils are all covered; if not, shrinkwrap can help you there. But be careful with coils especially--they can hold a charge for days after being disconnected from power! From here, I can't see any other obvious problems. What actually died on the monitor? I've noticed that backlights usually go before the actual panel: replacing a CCFL itself is usually more trouble than it's worth.

[Ak-47]

Opened it up just now(what a nice doggy! to do), and I'm looking at the 2 main drivers(I guess you could call them). One has this sketchy white gooey stuff on it, and the other appears to be fine. The bigger one(main one I assume) has the substance, and I'll try to upload pictures.

 

 

 

Where should I go from here?

 

 

Thanks!

 

paging @FREEDOM

That top-left purple cap looks leaky. Check the levels on the other caps too--a flat-head screwdriver can do fine there. If they're bulging, replace em. Double-check those three FETs attached to the heatsinks. Don't worry about the white goo--it's usually glue used to insulate components from each other. Do make sure the coils are all covered; if not, shrinkwrap can help you there. But be careful with coils especially--they can hold a charge for days after being disconnected from power! From here, I can't see any other obvious problems. What actually died on the monitor? I've noticed that backlights usually go before the actual panel: replacing a CCFL itself is usually more trouble than it's worth.

I turned it on, it would show display very dimly lit, then turn back off. If I did this repeatedly for like an hour it would turn on properly.

[Bob-sama]

Sounds more like a borked PCB. Give it a try.

[20000_Posts]

Sounds more like a borked PCB. Give it a try.

We pretty much came to the conclusion it was capacitors since there's been a lot of cases of his model having poor capacitors and having very similar symptoms.

 

It's been like a four topic journey. :P