I have perused these forums a few times, but this is the first time I'm taking to the plunge to attempt to repair one of my dead monitors.
I have several Viewsonic VP201B LCD monitors. A couple years ago I had one of them go out. I replaced it with a new one. Sometime last year I had a second one die which I also replaced. I've finally pulled them out of the closet and want to see if I can get them working instead of hauling them out to the trash.
This thread deals with the first of the two monitors. I can't quite recall how this monitor began to die, but I believe it seemed heat related. After warming up it there would be vertical strips that would begin to get "fuzzy" and eventually just blank out. If I remember correctly, if I smacked the monitor pretty hard on the face when it started doing this it would often fix the problem for a few more minutes before it would return.
Eventually, it would have the white bars immediately when turned on and they would remain on all of the time. That's when I replaced it.
I picked up a VP201B capacitor kit from ebay for it, but have yet to install any of them. I have read all of the VP201B threads I could find and realized that it didn't seem like any of the ones that were on here died in this way. (Seems that the usual bad capacitor symptom on these monitors is them simply not turning on?)
I have pulled apart the monitor and removed the two accessible ribbon cables you can see in the pictures and then reset them to see if this helped. No luck.
Before I go through the trouble of attempting to replace the capacitors, do you guys think this is actually a capacitor related issue?
Any guidance is greatly appreciated!
I have several Viewsonic VP201B LCD monitors. A couple years ago I had one of them go out. I replaced it with a new one. Sometime last year I had a second one die which I also replaced. I've finally pulled them out of the closet and want to see if I can get them working instead of hauling them out to the trash.
This thread deals with the first of the two monitors. I can't quite recall how this monitor began to die, but I believe it seemed heat related. After warming up it there would be vertical strips that would begin to get "fuzzy" and eventually just blank out. If I remember correctly, if I smacked the monitor pretty hard on the face when it started doing this it would often fix the problem for a few more minutes before it would return.
Eventually, it would have the white bars immediately when turned on and they would remain on all of the time. That's when I replaced it.
I picked up a VP201B capacitor kit from ebay for it, but have yet to install any of them. I have read all of the VP201B threads I could find and realized that it didn't seem like any of the ones that were on here died in this way. (Seems that the usual bad capacitor symptom on these monitors is them simply not turning on?)
I have pulled apart the monitor and removed the two accessible ribbon cables you can see in the pictures and then reset them to see if this helped. No luck.
Before I go through the trouble of attempting to replace the capacitors, do you guys think this is actually a capacitor related issue?
Any guidance is greatly appreciated!
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