Re: Samsung LCD monitor repair question

On a sunny day (Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:07:37 -0700) it happened Joerg
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I have not yet figured out how to open the thing.
I thas a 3 year guarantee, it is now exactly 1 year (minus 12 days).
So I want to be sure that I can actually fix it, before I break some seals.
The connector is hidden, perhaps one separate board, within the plastic case.


Then why not send it in?

Because their service department sucked, and no idea how long it
will take them to repair it, even if they repair it.


You can also measure an open terminator at the
PC side. Run it in VGA basic mode which it usually does for the first
10sec during boot and look at the levels. If the blue level suddenly
jumps a little when going to a similar blue-level screen in your regular
viewing mode then the terminator most likely goes open. If that happens
only on blue then it looks like a warranty repair case.

I have fed it some nice test signals, also looked for a defectibe blue clamp,
that seems all OK.
I ran ntest.exe on it too (Nokia monitor test, recommended, do a google for it).

Well... I will think about this for a while..... what to do with it.
Why am I so reluctant with service departments? Because I worked in one myself.
I will save you the stories.

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