The pic isn't just dim, i mistook the startup from the lcd as a dim picture,
but i think either the inverter gets no power or is bad.
I found and replaced a 5v regulator on the pcb but before that the monitor
was dead, now a fain no signal warning can be seen.
Any way to find out which wires supply power to the inverter, as well the
output has 4 sets of wires, are there 4 backlight
ccf's?
If i can't repair this one i will salvage him to make a homebrew beamer,
done it before with an old tft screen.

Bart Bervoets
"Michael Kennedy" wrote in message
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Well I didn't see anywhere you said it was an lcd. I just assumed that it
was a CRT as I'm sure that Ian Fields did...

Now we know that it is a TFT monitor that helps alot since before I was
going to say it was probably a weak picture tube.

Usually a dim picture is because of aging backlights. This isn't always
the
case though. You should disassemble the TFT screen and see if the ccfl
lamps
are good and bright or if they are dim. I personally have an old viewsonic
vp140 LCD monitor with a dim picture, but it is not from the backlights
(replaced them). Oddly enough the screen appears to be aged or damaged
somehow to make it very dark. Possibly exposure to sunlight???

- Mike

"Bart Bervoets" wrote in message
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Another loser reply, you know just as much as i that there are general
problems with lcd monitors.
I'm not asking for model related information.
aol user?