I was given a 22" widescreen Sceptre lcd monitor today.. It didn't power up. A few weeks ago I spent a happy few days tearing apart lcd monitors and learning how to fix them, so I was ecstatic to receive this one today, and promptly went to work tearing it apart. It has VGA, DVI, HDMI as well as audio in and out with small speakers in the corners. I get it all done, replacing 2 1000uf 25v capacitors and fire it up. VGA works, sweet! So I go to hook it up to the DVI port on my video card.
Nothing. Blank screen. Source button? Vga works, but DVI and the HDMI Digital, don't.
I tore it apart again (after swapping first cables then going to a second computer to verify) to make sure everything was still good, and I could not find any other blown capacitors on either the power board or the display board. =-( ... at least it works for VGA mode, and since I can't sell it, I brought it home but I'm debating if I want to swap out a currently working 19" DVI for a 22" widescreen VGA?
I think if I could find the corresponding display board, I could easily swap it out, but I dunno if Sceptre would sell those separately? I briefly checked ebay but didn't find a part..
oh the model number is X22WG-Gamer. Anyone else have a Sceptre monitor?
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hmm.. apparently I'm not the only one with DVI problems
http://www.pcworld.com/shopping/reviews/prtprdid,28505645-sortby,retailer/reviews.html
