Monitor turns off after a few seconds, but the green light is still on. Is it getting old?
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So this external monitor I have plugged into my laptop has worked great for a while. It's an old monitor, bought on a bankruptcy-auction. It's an HP1530, and it's at least 5 years old.
For the alast few months of owning it, it's been working great, but recently when I turn the monitor on, it'll "warm up", and when it reaches the set brightness, it turns off, but the green light still stays on. Sometimes it doesn't shut off and actually works like it should, but once I call it a day and go to bed, I turn off my PC. The next morning, the monitor screws with me again.
I figure it's getting old, and something is broken inside the monitor, but I thought I'd ask people who know these things. And calling HP support would be... really useless.
Same problem. But I got a LG Flatron L1710S
And I think it is about 5 years old too.
Five years puts it in the badcaps era so I'm assuming your inverter is kicking out because of the caps kicking the bucket.
[QUOTE=MIPS;26545687]Five years puts it in the badcaps era so I'm assuming your inverter is kicking out because of the caps kicking the bucket.[/QUOTE]
When caps go off, then it should do a POP sound or what? My old CRT monitor did it and finally blow up. But this monitor hasn't done it. Yet!
But with my monitor, it flashes the pic for a sec, then goes off, power is on. I turn monitor off and on again, shows for a sec and pic goes blank. Buttons don't do anything too. I get away from that when I restart my PC or if I am lucky.
My SyncMaster 225BW did this, replaced the caps that powered the CCFLs and it worked.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;26545707]When caps go off, then it should do a POP sound or what? My old CRT monitor did it and finally blow up.[/QUOTE]
In bad cases they "vent" (that is, the tops crack open and rarely there is a bang) but for the most part, they just start to bulge their tops.
I had a similar problem recently, it turned out one of the wires that ran from the inverter to the CFLs had become loose. That fixed it for me, was you problem where the screen would go completely black like turning off and the power light remained fully and a little while later the screen itself returned?
[QUOTE=4RT1LL3RY;26547690]I had a similar problem recently, it turned out one of the wires that ran from the inverter to the CFLs had become loose. That fixed it for me, was you problem where the screen would go completely black like turning off and the power light remained fully and a little while later the screen itself returned?[/QUOTE]
In my case, the backlight came on for a short time (half a second or something) then went off. Power light stayed on and if you had a high contrast image on the screen you could just about see it if you looked really hard for the edges.
Check out [url]http://www.badcaps.net/[/url] and I know you can get kits to replace capacitors that have gone.
I already had a few lying around though so it was a quick fix.
[QUOTE=4RT1LL3RY;26547690]I had a similar problem recently, it turned out one of the wires that ran from the inverter to the CFLs had become loose. That fixed it for me, was you problem where the screen would go completely black like turning off and the power light remained fully and a little while later the screen itself returned?[/QUOTE]
No, it stays completely off :C
i got 3 dell 1702fp's for free that had bad caps. replaced 2 in each monitor and they work perfectly now. not gonna look it up but your monitor might have an issue that's easily repairable.
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