Expiring monitor - any thoughts?
Biccus Diccus
Axion 17" CL-1766, had been jittering a bit on start up for some months and
occasionally whilst on for some time. Last week it gave up the ghost,
frizzed very spectacularly for a few seconds, went blank and proceeded to
click click click. Bad smell of something burnt. Any approximate diagnosis
welcome as I am not sure if it is worth repairing. It is about 3 years old
and has given good service.
Regards, Jamie
GSV Three Minds in a Can
person Biccus Diccus <jst...@hotmail.com> said
Unless you have a local TV repair shop that will check it out for
peanuts, then it probably isn't worth repairing. The 'professional' VDU
repair places want Ł50 or more to even look at it, and a standard repair
come to Ł100+, with a whole 12 month warranty (and you probably have to
drive 30 miles to deliver it to them, and pick it up again when it is
fixed). You can get a new/refurbished one with a 3 year warranty for not
much more (digi-uk springs to mind). Besides, it is time you had a 19"
one anyway, right. 8>.
Prodding around yourself is very much =not= recommended unless you are
very sure what you are doing .. there's an awful lot of kV on the EHT
supply, and enough capacitors to keep it around a long time after the
power is turned off.
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GSV Three Minds in a Can
Paul Hopwood
You'll need to get an estimate to be sure, anything in the region of
£60 - £100 isn't uncommon for monitor repairs.
Avoid the "specialist" repairers and ask your local computer shop or,
better still, hobbyist electronics outlet, where they get stuff done.
There's probably a small outfit locally who'll be able to diagnose and
undertake repairs at component level. If it's something small/daft
that's failed they might be able to replace the component where larger
"specialists" often simply replace the assembly, at your expense of
course.
I use a place in Derby called Electronics Workshop, but unless you're
local I doubt it's worth your while trying to get the monitor to/from
their workshop.
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Biccus Diccus
Thanks GSV and Paul. I have some contacts at a local college who run courses
on computer maintenance so they may know some friendly techs. Thanks again.
Regards, Jamie
Dave
educational purposes as well. I had a fault with an Atari ST computer and
took it into college for the technician to have a look. In our next lesson
was my computer with the top off and the technician went through the steps
in fault finding this type of fault. The result was a working computer and
knowledge of how to go about repairing this type of fault myself.
I am not saying to get someone to show YOU but they could use it to show
their students. There is nothing like showing someone how to fix something,
much better than theory.
Same goes for cars, my uncle had his car floor welded as part of the welding
lessons (back when he was an apprentice).
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Dave <Da...@oneofthedoomedericssonfactories.co.uk> wrote in message
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> If it is a last ditch attempt, they might want to have a look for
> educational purposes as well. I had a fault with an Atari ST computer and
> took it into college for the technician to have a look. In our next
lesson
> was my computer with the top off and the technician went through the steps
> in fault finding this type of fault. The result was a working computer
and
> knowledge of how to go about repairing this type of fault myself.
> I am not saying to get someone to show YOU but they could use it to show
> their students. There is nothing like showing someone how to fix
something,
> much better than theory.
>
> Same goes for cars, my uncle had his car floor welded as part of the
welding
> lessons (back when he was an apprentice).
>
Hi Dave
Colleges can be quite helpful. I've actually been on their computer
maintenance course so am reasonably competent to build/upgrade computers but
for obvious reasons I won't delve into a monitor, not having the required
electronics background. Probably similar at most colleges, where students'
computers are upgraded and repaired for the cost of the components only.
Great bunch of people I found too.
Regards, Jamie
Dave
afford to have the latest equipment to show the students and sometimes what
they have is quite old so by learning on a students faulty monitor/PC is
ideal.
Glad to hear that you are being cautious. If you take the appropriate
precautions, you should be safe but someone needs to teach you them first.
I first started repairing monitors with only the knowledge to stay away from
certain places. It was years afterwards when a friend of mine sat down with
me and taught me more about them. If you can get the extra training, take
it but until then you do right in staying away from the insides of them.