How To Solve No Power Problem In HP

f1723 LCD Monitor

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This HP1723 17” LCD Monitor came in with the complaint of no power. Upon further
inspection I could hear a soft intermittent sound coming from the both front
speakers. Since the speakers can produce some sound, this indicates that the power
supply should be working fine and it may be some bad components located at the
secondary side that had caused the power supply voltage to drop not to start. The
power LED doesn’t light because the signal was coming from the Microcontroller
(MCU) IC. This means that if the MCU did not receive the right voltage from the
power supply, it will not send output voltage to the power LED.

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As usual, to open LCD Monitor cover , one have to be careful of not scratching or
leaving a mark on the plastic casing otherwise the customer may not want to accept
his or her broken or badly scratch LCD Monitor. Once the cover have been removed,
you have to remove another four screws (two at each side) in order to take out the
power/inverter and the Main board. For some LCD Monitors, the moment you have
open the cover, you could easily remove all the boards.

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The power supply and the inverter circuit are in one board while the Main board and
the audio board are in separate board. As mentioned before in my previous articles, I
do not immediately begin to troubleshoot and repair any board unless I have scanned
all the components with my eyes first. The power supply/inverter board look very
new and the most obvious sign that I could see was two filter capacitors (1000uf 16
Volt) had a slight bulge on top of its casing. I believe these bulged electrolytic
capacitors that had caused the power supply not to function properly. I have checked
all other e-caps too but all found to be good.

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Usually whenever a filter capacitor located at the secondary side of switch mode
power supply (SMPS) have a too high ESR value, the voltage will drop more than half
causing many circuits won’t work. Since I already found the bad e-caps, I have to be
certain that the secondary diodes (this LCD Monitor is using Schottky diodes) don’t
go faulty or leaky too. Upon checking the Schottky diodes (part number are
SRF20100C and SP10150) I found both of them to be working fine. Replacing only
the two bad e-caps with a good one solved the LCD Monitor problem.

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Now get this, if you want to be good in any electronic equipment repair, if possible
analyze other circuits too. That means if you every time replace only the fuse and the
bridge rectifier you won’t learn anything beyond that problem and you will get bored
easily. Let’s take my case for example, after the replacement of the capacitors I will
usually analyze other circuits too like finding out what kind of part numbers certain
components are using, which type of the inverter circuit is belong to i.e. Buck Royer
or direct drive?, why each backlight circuit are using four ballast capacitors?, How
many backlights the LCD Monitor is using, what is the inverter IC part number, what
is the supply voltage to the inverter IC? How many LED bar lighted up when test on
the secondary winding of the high voltage transformer? What would happen if I pull
out one of the backlight (will it still work or shut down?). What is the brightness line
voltage if set to minimum and maximum? You have to answer all of these questions if

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you want to be good at LCD Monitor repair. You can apply this kind of questions on
other electronic equipment too. This is a continuous process of learning how to be
good in electronic repair.

I don’t want you to replace caps or fuse everyday without knowing how other circuits
function or what are the components used in other circuits. Although to analyse
other circuits take you lots of time, I can guarantee you that the time you have spent
are worth it. You won’t be able to go far if you have set your thinking by just changing
components and not knowing the surrounding. If you want to improve in electronic
repair then you need a change of mindset in you and only you yourself can make the
different! Try this approach and I believe troubleshooting electronic will never be the
same again.
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Happy Repairing

Jestine Yong

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