"James Sweet" wrote in message
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The display generated internally is just fine. Only the externally input
display tears. So it can't be "every single cap." I imagine it is
something in the sync input. I'll be checking it out. And like I said, it
is a "saved" monitor. If a quick fix won't do it, back to the dump.

Al



Sure it could, may only be one or two that are bad enough to cause a
malfunction, but it's worth checking the rest. Usually when one of these
surface mount capacitors is bad, the rest are nearly shot too. I usually
replace them all, then the thing is good for years. In a pinch, one can
check the ESR of all of them and replace those that check bad. There's
usually only a dozen or so.


Agreed, but be aware that the ESR values of surface mount electros tends to
be somewhat higher than those of a similar value in 'conventional' leaded
format, so a cap that you are expecting to read say 1 ohm, may correctly
read several ohms in surface mount.

Arfa