Monitor troubles.

[altwight]

Recently my monitor has been making a feint squeeky noise while the power light blinks on and off whenever I try to turn it on for the day. I tried different power cables and nothing works.

At first it would do this only for a few moments before turning on normally but today it's just not coming on. It's like it's a car trying to start that doesn't want to start. It sounds like a mouse dying and breathing his last breaths.

Is it dying? It's relatively old. 22" Acer flat screen LED.

[xopher]

Yes.

[Senji]

Turn up your brightness all the way to buy you some more time until you get a new one.

[bungiefan]

My Samsung 22" started doing that to. The power light blinks and there's a regular chirp as it looks like the bulb tries to turn on. It was taking 5-15 minutes to turn on for about a week, and then it stopped turning on after any amount of time I was willing to wait. I'm wondering if it might be a capacitor on the board and if it would be replacable with basic soldering skills. My Samsung 19" from 2005 is still working and I've been using it as a secondary screen. My Samsung 22" doing this is only from 2007 or 2008.

[altwight]

Anyone have any thoughts on the capacitor being replaced?

[Ramor]

You can tell fairly easy if a cap needs to be replaced, just looking at it should tell you just about everything. If it's leaking or if the top is all bulged then you'd obviously need to replace that cap, though be careful because if it's a big cap (physically it will be large, but also anything around 150V+~ is fairly dangerous) just make sure your monitor is unplugged and that you give it a minute or so to dissipate its charge before you touch anything near it. The only way to test if a cap is bad without it being entirely blown up though you'd need a special tool (not a mutlimeter, cant test caps with those) and I'd imagine you don't have one lying around.

Caps are easy to replace though, just make sure your uF rating is as close as possible to the cap you're replacing (ideally you'd want the same rating) and the voltage just has to be at or above whatever's already in there, if you can't find the specific cap you're looking for at your local radioshack though you can always solder caps in parallel or in series (basically tying their leads together to make one big ass cap out of smaller caps), there are guides online to help you out.

If its anything other than a cap though I'd probably recommend just buying a new monitor, they're not terribly expensive these days.