{"id":13,"date":"2009-03-01T23:53:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T22:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2009-03-01T23:53:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T22:53:14","slug":"samsung-syncmaster-204b-died-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Samsung SyncMaster 204B died as well &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Note on previous post &#8230; simple as pie to pop the WD drive out of the enclosure and directly mount it in my server &#8230; back with access.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, my (2.5 year old) Samsung SyncMaster 204B has started to go &#8212; when first turned on, it&#8217;s dark, then gradually starts showing the picture, although as of today it remains dim and flickering.\u00c2\u00a0 Presumably the backlight inverter &#8230; apparently pretty common to fail, at least as discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experts-exchange.com\/Hardware\/Displays_Monitors\/LCD_and_Plasma\/Q_23261077.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (with pix and hints on fixing with capacitor replacements) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherboards.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?t=88079&amp;postdays=0&amp;postorder=asc&amp;start=0&amp;sid=b392a497d514c593ddf945d901dc9a02\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 You can buy at least some inverters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcdpart.com\/doc\/inverter_installation.html\" target=\"_blank\">LCD Parts<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inventgeek.com\/Projects\/shorts\/lcdfix.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">InventGeek has an article<\/a> on how to swap them.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, I&#8217;m still under warranty (which includes the backlight) &#8230; unluckily, I bought it in the US, and am now in the Netherlands.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how it goes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note on previous post &#8230; simple as pie to pop the WD drive out of the enclosure and directly mount it in my server &#8230; back with access.) Also, my (2.5 year old) Samsung SyncMaster 204B has started to go &#8212; when first turned on, it&#8217;s dark, then gradually starts showing the picture, although as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/?p=13\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Samsung SyncMaster 204B died as well &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}