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Thank you folks for your help; I installed the new board and it it is working great! I think I got the last board on planet earth from a small Spanish company: https://steielectronica.com/en/placas-main/4707-placa-main-monitor-eax66876001-lg-29um68-p.html (I bought a new monitor a month ago...

Yeah mark A scratched off without any visible damage. I just got a multimeter to test the power adapter and there was no issue there. I'll order the board replacement and give it a go.

Right, thank you very much for your help. I will get a multimeter to check with first. Does damage normally happen after doing what I did? (pluggining out all the wires from the mainboard and then connecting the power) I'm wondering if I actually broke it properly (beyond the burn I scratched...

So you wouldn't be too worries about the power adapter? I just noticed the "burn" at A scratches off pretty clean... maybe a small insect or something got fried? Would it be safe to plug everything back in and try? or does the blow at B mean there is no point (or can cause more damage)?

So my monitor decided to die :eek: It is an LG Ultrawide 29UM68. How it Happened (if it helps...) For a few days I noticed a light ticking sound at a very steady interval (just loud enough to be annoying) but I just assumed it was a speaker fault and didn't pay much more attention to it. The...

A friend gave me his laptop to try and fix it for him (I've tried and failed). He doesn't know anything about computers and lives only in his web browser, so he has no idea what the problem could be, he has no disks or windows licence key (Rubbed off under). The computer is running windows...

Any ideas?.. Anyone?

A friend gave me his laptop to try and fix it for him (I've tried and failed). He doesn't know anything about computers and lives only in his web browser, so he has no idea what the problem could be, he has no disks or windows licence key (Rubbed off under). The computer is running windows...