So about 5 minutes ago the most bizarre thing happened to my secondary display, a Dell 2407wfp. I had just finished playing a game on my Dell U2410 and went to display settings to turn on the 2407wfp, and instead of coming out of standby mode I hear "ssssssst.. POP!". Damn thing scared me half to death, it being 3:45am. I seriously jumped about a foot out of my seat. LoL. Has anyone ever had this happen or heard of such a thing? In 20 years of building, repairing, upgrading, etc my own and hundreds of customers computers I've never heard of such a thing. The display seems to be completely dead which means it more than likely blew a capacitor on the power board, which is a repair I've done a few times in the past so I'm not overly worried. I've just never seen one go with such a loud noise! I guess tomorrow I'll be taking it apart and if the carnage is abnormally bad, i'll definitely post up some pictures. man... i was nice and relaxed, ready to go to bed... and now i'm all wound up from that unexpected scare. lol. so much for quality sleep... ugh. edit: I just looked up capacitor repair kits and here is the power board. I'm guessing what blew was that one big dog in the middle.
I've had a few CRTs blow and smoke like hell, but never had an LCD fail in such a manor as described. Both of mine went quietly.
While I have no technical input on this, can I give merit points for the picture in my head after reading this title!?
First off, i am posting this for other people with this problem to read. Same thing happened to me, after some looking i found it is indeed the capacitor in the center. I also found the specs on it since it's hard to get to: 120uf 450v 105°C
