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Are you handy with a soldering iron? Or know someone who is?
Ya might be able to save 'er, depending on your symptoms it might just be 3 resistors need replaced (which apparently is a common failure mode for your monitor)...
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15647
Heck, even if you do want a new monitor, still try and fix the old one and use it as a secondary screen
Cool and all but is it really worth fixing a 10 year old monitor. Time to just upgrade. There been a lot of leaps in monitor tech in the past 10 years. A cheapo monitor should be far better then what he had.Are you handy with a soldering iron? Or know someone who is?
Ya might be able to save 'er, depending on your symptoms it might just be 3 resistors need replaced (which apparently is a common failure mode for your monitor)...
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=15647
Heck, even if you do want a new monitor, still try and fix the old one and use it as a secondary screen
Lol good post would read againthe general choices nowadays are:
1)Nothing smaller than 24" god forbid that. Also nothing larger than 34" let's not be crazy.
2)Ultrawides 21:9 are for coolest kids. 29" minimum. Sometimes even with high refresh rate. Best served curved.
3)4K monitors for serious "I swear I can see pixels on 1080p 24". It looks horrible" pc people.
4)The ultimate pc master race of 1440p 144hz terrible backlight bleed ips lottery... Swearing ips is best thing ever and 1440p is not only a transition phase.
5)Do not buy a monitor now! Wait for X and Y. Oled is coming, FALD is coming!
6)Gsync/Fast sync smooth kids.
I myself just week ago got 1080p 25" 240hz Gsync Tn monitor(AOC AG251FG). Just because 1080p is very fine for me. I still cannot see individual pixels and most content is mastered either for 1080p or for 4k nowadays. 1080p does nice 4k downsampling if needed.
And I choose TN because I dislike IPS glow and I am positively surprised as TN panels seem to come a long way and I am very pleased with my choice.
Oh and if You game - high hz and Gsync is must. I would even say that if You don't game, high refresh rate makes desktop use very nice.
Glad it was useful. 16:10 monitors these days aren't exactly cheap or plentiful either - hopefully yours will live again!Just read that thread. That's really good info, thanks!
Reading this on my secondary monitor which is 1680 x 1050 It's pretty old, but still going along fine. The 16:10 aspect results in a vertical resolution is nearly the same as 1080 so it's got plenty of real estate for reading things and lots of other kinds of work.Glad it was useful. 16:10 monitors these days aren't exactly cheap or plentiful either - hopefully yours will live again!
Delicieuxz makes a great point that you may want to check the capacitors in there - after 10 years even the best ones start to pack it in - especially inside a hot running monitor. I know on my Dells it's a freaking oven in there - when the power board goes out on those it's epic, you get the electric squeal/fart *POP* -crazy image/blackout- and it smells horrid. Also if you were in the zone doing something at the time, you need a new pair of pants cause what's that buzz? SURPRISE BooM HOLY F**** *
I have 3 Dell 2407's that I keep limping along with blown caps and dead power boards. The 60Hz max is kinda lame nowadays, but until I can afford a decent 144Hz monitor + a video card that can actually drive that a steady avg 160fps I'm just kinda sitting on it.
Plus yea, I totally get the whole "kid/family/life" chops into gaming time especially, then you kinda feel awkward making that spend on equipment you can't really enjoy without feeling like a clock is always ticking.
Sorry I ramble - let us know how it goes on your repair.
Glad it was useful. 16:10 monitors these days aren't exactly cheap or plentiful either - hopefully yours will live again!
Delicieuxz makes a great point that you may want to check the capacitors in there - after 10 years even the best ones start to pack it in - especially inside a hot running monitor. I know on my Dells it's a freaking oven in there - when the power board goes out on those it's epic, you get the electric squeal/fart *POP* -crazy image/blackout- and it smells horrid. Also if you were in the zone doing something at the time, you need a new pair of pants cause what's that buzz? SURPRISE BooM HOLY F**** *
I have 3 Dell 2407's that I keep limping along with blown caps and dead power boards. The 60Hz max is kinda lame nowadays, but until I can afford a decent 144Hz monitor + a video card that can actually drive that a steady avg 160fps I'm just kinda sitting on it.
Plus yea, I totally get the whole "kid/family/life" chops into gaming time especially, then you kinda feel awkward making that spend on equipment you can't really enjoy without feeling like a clock is always ticking.
Sorry I ramble - let us know how it goes on your repair.
THRESHIN, let us know what the part number is on the power board in your monitor is, just out of curiosity - at least so I can find a sane picture of one online.New resistors and caps are a few cents or dollars, and take only a few minutes to solder all of them into place. I would do them all at the same time.
THRESHIN, let us know what the part number is on the power board in your monitor is, just out of curiosity - at least so I can find a sane picture of one online.
I have a few drinks in me at the moment, so excuse the excessive ramble....
First so the rest doesn't come out negative - judging from the info I've seen, and your enthusiasm with getting a new iron for this - you've got this, that monitor is gonna live. Hell yea.
I wanted to say that first, so I don't sound like i'm jumping on the wagon... I'd replace the capacitors while you're in there like Delicieuxz keeps imploring. BUT - hey if that samsung is easy to get into, then sure get the resistors in and let her ride. Hopefully if/when the caps go, it doesn't take out anything logic wise in there - I DON'T mean that as a scare quote either, like my dells, shit blew up in there and hey, the logic still works. It just depends on the failure mode of the monitor.
second, the resistor thing must be a quirk of that monitor. I've never heard of such a consistent failure mode with.. resistors of all things. At least it's easy, and doesn't nuke a microprocessor in there you can't fix. I wonder why the resistors die? The badcaps forum speculates that the hot glue they used is acidic/corrosive which is really feaking weird, but... that'd be a good reason for a strange failure mode eh? answered my own question there lol
My experience (not just my Dells), in 90% of cases when a monitor goes out, it's the inverter caps packing it in - IF your monitor/laptop is Cathode backlight. 5% is power board... which I only say cause my Dells. The last 5% (120% for f*cking TVs) is for things like TCON delamination or the logic board. Okay logic board I've only had 2 and that's some crazy symptoms edge case. TCON is... if you know what that is, push the soldering iron into your eye sockets now lol
I dunno, for sure do the resistors and get her running again. Snap a pic of the the other boards while you're in there. Do the caps sometime.... or assume if the monitor goes out again in a few year(s) it'll probably be the caps. Don't throw 'er away though!