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My monitor wont turn on so I'm wondering if the picture's of the INTERNAL chip's are defective or anything.

Info: Two of the capacitors are a little bit bulged up.

Thanks

[recovering disk space - old attachment deleted by admin]They look fine, check the PSU and connectors. QUOTE from: dwegiel on July 11, 2010, 08:57:13 PM

They look fine, check the PSU and connectors.

The wire's are fine. I don't really KNOW what you define as a PSU but on this monitor there is a Power Board which is the first picture i attached.Hard to tell from the pictures, most of it looks OK, but there is a fuse in there.  That's the first thing I would check.isnt it supposed to be transparent? i mean it all white...
Fuses are almost always clear glass so you can see if the element is OK or burnt out, but I've seen a few like this.  I don't know what the thinking behind this is.  Sometimes something like this isn't so much of a fuse as an direct electrical connection.  Hard to tell.

If you have a multimeter, pull the fuse and check the resistance across both ends.  If there is continuity it's OK.  If there is no continuity, the fuse is bad.

If you don't have a multimeter, just pull it and take to Radio Shack, or somewhere similar and get a new IDENTICAL one (you might have to buy them in a five pack).  It shouldn't cost that much, at least it should be cheaper than a new monitor. Quote from: rthompson80819 on July 11, 2010, 11:24:25 PM
Fuses are almost always clear glass so you can see if the element is OK or burnt out, but I've seen a few like this.  I don't know what the thinking behind this is.  Sometimes something like this isn't so much of a fuse as an direct electrical connection.  Hard to tell.

If you have a multimeter, pull the fuse and check the resistance across both ends.  If there is continuity it's OK.  If there is no continuity, the fuse is bad...
Slo-Blo fuse vs Fast-Blo.  Ceramic body COULD be high voltage.  Can't see the bulged caps.  The backside of the board looks a bit discolored, could be the flyback transformer (black one) is shot.  That's what usually goes on a CRT monitor. Quote from: Computer_Commando on July 12, 2010, 05:17:25 PM
Slo-Blo fuse vs Fast-Blo.  Ceramic body could be high voltage.  Can't see the bulged caps.  The backside of the board looks a bit discolored, could be the flyback transformer (black one) is shot.  That's what usually goes on a CRT monitor.

the discoloration is just my shadow. hehe ill try take it to radioshack. thanks


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