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Ended up taking the power board from another (similarly nonfunctioning) monitor, replacing the caps on that with the replacements I got from digikey. It works now.

I use a pencil style weller soldering iron, one that just plugs straight into the wall with no base station. The monitor is an LG flatron 194wtx-bf, and the power board it uses is marked 68709d0012c. I'm fairly certain what happened is I shorted some components on the metal chassis that holds...

Finished reflowing all the joints on the board, and the second I plug it in sparks fly out of the board's ac input. Fairly certain the board's ruined now, so that's nice.

Both the blow dryer and the cap replacement were done on the power board.

It uses a regular power cord, has 2 boards (power and output), and I made absolutely certain before ordering replacements and double-checked before putting the replacements in that the values were the same as the originals. If it helps any, prior to replacing the caps, the monitor would turn...

I've got another broken monitor. Well, the same one as last time I was here, but whatever. Basically, it wouldn't power on so I checked for bulging caps, one was, I ordered replacements on Digikey and just now replaced them, but the monitor still doesn't work. The power light doesn't come on...

I just got a second hand computer monitor, and it doesn't turn on. When I plug it in and press the power button, it doesn't even flash the power indicator. I opened it up and can't seem to find anything amiss. No bulging or leaking caps, no bad solder joints, nothing. I managed to get it to...