Acer H213H strange power issue

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jeanguy1980

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Very strange problem: monitor works for some days perfectly, then some days it won't power on at all. ( Completely no power).
I checked the cable, AC 240 input socket. All good. Capacitors look okay. I don't know what could cause this strange problem? thanks for suggestions or places to check...
 

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You can't test capacitors visually, you need to test them using an ESR meter - it could be a duff electrolytic, it's by FAR the most common failing in switch-mode PSU's.
 
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Thanks a lot for the quick feedback and suggestions. Unfortunately i don't have ESR meter at hand to test the Cs.
could faulty Capacitor cause this random power-on issue? sometimes it works, sometimes not. thanks again in advance.
 
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jeanguy1980 said:
Thanks a lot for the quick feedback and suggestions. Unfortunately i don't have ESR meter at hand to test the Cs.
could faulty Capacitor cause this random power-on issue? sometimes it works, sometimes not. thanks again in advance.
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Yes, quite easily - a high ESR capacitor could be 'just on the edge' - so depending on various random factors might 'just' start up, or might 'just not start up. If there's a start-up resistor, that could have gone high as well (it used to be a pretty common fault), and again it could be 'on the edge'. A common issue used to be all was working fine until you turned it OFF (or there was a power cut), and then it wouldn't fire up again - because the startup circuit had failed.
 
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I've just downloaded the service manual, the start-up resistors looks to be three in series (always a common cause of failure), R904, R905 and R906, all 10K. C908 or C939 would be good capacitors to check.
 
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