[SOLVED] Samsung S24D340 doesn't turn on

[ijtl]

Hi fellas, my monitor won't turn on.

I have an older Samsung S24D340 (one of the ones with the <Mod Edit> touch buttons) used as a secondary monitor. It has been working fine without any problems or weird behaviour, even the buttons worked fine when I last used them, which was around a month ago. I usually leave it on when I power off my PC, as it goes on standby and turns the panel off and turns back on when I power on my PC. But last night I turned off the powerstrip it's plugged into whilst the monitor was on standby so the monitor turned off and today it won't turn on.

I've tried everything short off opening it up as I suspect the touch sensitive buttons are at fault? I do usually have a piece of tape over the power button/LED (which I have now removed) so that could be an issue, even though that has never turned off the monitor by accident.
Here's what I've tried:

• Touching the power button in various different ways ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
• Unplugging and plugging back in the power cord
• Unplugging and plugging back in the HDMI
• Unplugging both the HDMI and power cord and plugging in the power cord and HDMI (in all orders of doing so)
• Restarting the PC

Anything else I could possibly try before opening it up?

 

[taeioum]

Sounds to me that it's dead or dying.. Normally turning off a powerstrip while it's plugged in and turned on shouldn't be an issue. Unplugging and replugging the power cord is pretty much all you can do except for trying to connect it to a different PC or laptop, but even when it's not connected to a PC or laptop it should still turn on.

I'd assume it's a dead monitor though and I'd advise to take caution if and when opening it up, especially when plugged in.