Goren Buckwalk wrote: > Pics I can do. However, the angles a bit rough, me leaning on one > leg, system is up and running at the end of rack near the wall, Oh those photos were difficult! :-) But I think you definitely have the bad capacitor problem. Read about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Compare the pictures for the bulging top of the capacitors in the wikipedia article to the ones on your board. But note that the wikipedia picture is about the worst you will see which is why they made a good text book photo. Here is a photo from one of my LCD monitors that had the bad cap problem. As you can see they are not as bad as what is on wikipedia. http://www.proulx.com/~bob/photo_album/2012-03-18-bob-samsung-fix/4.html But those in my pictures are still bulging significantly. I replaced them. This fixed the monitor. I have actually repaired five LCD monitors all with similar bad capacitor problems. Now whenever anyone has a bad LCD monitor that they think they should scrap out I pop it apart and look to see if it is an easy repair or not. > Shaky shot of the worst of the three, other two hidden by CPU: > > http://s2.postimg.org/lbrkej89l/DSCN1309.jpg > (full size) You needed a tripod if anyone did! :-) Really hard to see but look at the tops of the cans of the capacitors. Are they puffed up even just a little? If so they they are bad and should be replaced. > http://s8.postimg.org/i33u96j5h/DSCN1307_smaller.jpg The reflection in the shiny part of the case actually looks more in focus than the direct image! If you don't feel comfortable replacing them yourself I am sure that you could find an electrically inclined friend that would do it for you if you bought the parts. Hard to say but probably less than $20USD in parts. Caps that size are not cheap. I am always shocked by how much parts cost and you have many of them on your board. Know any ham radio operators? I am sure that among that group you would find someone who would be able to help you with the soldering. This is really the easiest of the repairs on circuit boards. Bob
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