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Computer monitor won't turn on.
hesthefastest
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Help! KSP has a new update and my compy is out of commission.
Did some quick googling and found only general troubleshooting and the symptoms are very specific so I thought someone would know the problem right away.
-start up compy
-screen flashes start up screen (1 second) then dark
-twenty seconds later same thing
-compy is running fine, just can't see anything
Used to happen intermittently, a restart would fix it, but now its stuck.
Im thinking either screen or power supply, any ideas?
Thanks
Did some quick googling and found only general troubleshooting and the symptoms are very specific so I thought someone would know the problem right away.
-start up compy
-screen flashes start up screen (1 second) then dark
-twenty seconds later same thing
-compy is running fine, just can't see anything
Used to happen intermittently, a restart would fix it, but now its stuck.
Im thinking either screen or power supply, any ideas?
Thanks
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This is probably your monitor. I don't suppose you've another one to test with?
Or perhaps a laptop, hook up the monitor as a second screen on the lappy.
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The 20 second later line sounds like the computer is automatically rebooting once due to a startup error and then not going any further, which could indicate a hardware or software issue preventing start up.
So my bet is maybe your psu is on the way out and it's not powering the gfx card.
A quick test of the monitor on another PC or with a different source would confirm that the monitor was good.
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Exactly what I had to do with my monitor's PSU a few months ago. Taking apart the bezel was more of a hassle than actually desoldering/soldering a few caps (I'm sure there's a couple of retention clips that are flat out busted now, but there you go).
They typically look like this:
The one on the right is what a "bad" capacitor looks like. They may also have chemical residue on them, like you'd see from an old leaky AA battery.
This. My previous job had a bunch of Dell monitors that were really nice, but all had some bad capacitors. Apparently there was a rash of this about 10 years ago from some only partially successful industrial espionage. Tons of monitors that were otherwise fine would have problems just like this.