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I guess my monitor asploded on the inside?

BlochWaveBlochWave Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm browsing the web one night, whee, cut the computer and stuff off, go to bed, and when I get back from work the next day I go to flip it on, only nothing. No power. If I look REALLY hard I see a steady but incredibly faint "flicker" maybe from the bulb trying to turn on

The power LED is light is completely dead and non functional, only unplugging it stops the flicker. Computer runs fine, I've done the whole gamut of stuff (different computers, cables, etc.) and it's very obviously dead. I'm on a spare monitor. The monitor that broke is almost two years old, a Dell 19 inch widescreen (and I bet I can and will still get it fixed under warranty, but I already ordered a new 24 inch, something I was planning on doing soon anyways)

What exactly caused this, and is it something I can actively help prevent in the future? Especially with my forthcoming new monitor?

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  • xa52xa52 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    It seems from googling around a little that the most common problem with lcd monitors is a bad capacitor, which could be changed.

    However, capacitors in monitors will kill you. Even if it's unplugged. At least, that is the case with CRTs. I don't know if it's the same with LCDs. That's what I was trying to find out on google.

    Not a very useful reply, but in case you were curious enough to poke around the inside, don't, unless you're certain that the capacitors in LCDs won't kill you.

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  • BlochWaveBlochWave Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Well, quick googling tells me that a typical LCD capacitor is 1 mF at 16 volts. If I were to grab both ends of it, the .016 coulombs of charge could rip through me in...tens of seconds. Which compares favorably to the hundreds of volts that can be stored in the especially high voltage high capacitance capacitors used in CRTs.

    But as I lack a soldering gun and am lazy, I'll let someone else fix it :)

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  • evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Since the power LED isn't working, I'm assuming this is a power supply issue.

    CRT monitors are on my "Never ever disassemble" list, but LCDs are fine.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    oh goodness I read this as "I guess my mother asploded from the inside?" D:

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