Dell 1905FP Monitor, How to open the cover and repair power-off

How did you determine the capacitors were defective? Visually or test?

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(Sorry, but my english is very bad, but I shall try to do my best:)

Well, ...

As You can see on my website, I found some advice, before I started, so I knew, what I perhaps should look after.

(The advise was not so easy to find and a "little" bit defuse.)

when I opened the cover, there were non capacitors (10v 100 µF), but on the output voltage, there was another one (10v 1000 µF).

It looked like, it was going to blow up, and this is normaly a sign of defect.

(2 other capacitore looked in the same way.)

So my answer is ... visually.

I tested then afterwards, and non of them seems to be wrong (on low voltage)!

But because of the advice, I replaced them, and the monitor then worked again ... :-)

File no: 11424

Thanks, English is fine. I remember I got a free 5.1 receiver and speakers that was not working. Found a bad cap (buldging) in the subwoofer and shorted speaker. Fixed good as new for basically nothing.