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Turn the steel "chassis" over to reveal the power supply and main PCB. (and be extra careful not do drop it on the screen!) Lift it off carefully, incase you forgot to unplug a connection. The "chassis" holds the power supply and the main PCB for screen. Now that all connections are unplugged, you can lift the complete steel "chassis" off the screen. If you do not have a good memory, take a photo of all connections with a digital camera, coz if you plug em back in wrong your gonna fry your monitor. Next, unplug all the connections you can see. Once the plastic cover is removed, there will be a steel "chassis" inside with a stainless steel cover on the left hand side. (if you feel you need to use a screwdriver to help you get it off, be sure to use a wide bladed one as to minimize damage to the plastic). Starting at the bottom carefully and gently prize the back off. The cover is clipped on all round the edge. next, undo the three screws that are along the bottom of the screen. remove the three screws that hold the stand to the monitor. Pull off the plastic cover that hides all the connections (you probably took this off already when you unplugged the monitor). Lay the monitor face down on a towel (to protect screen) on your bench with the stand hanging off the edge. ** This is for the 206BW, but the 223BW and 226BW will be similar ** Eventually the monitor will fail to start up at all, even if left on all day. Once the monitor has started up it works as normal until its turned off again and then the whole blinking thing starts again. You may not even notice at first, but this will get progressively worse with the monitor taking longer and longer to start up. The problem is the same, but the component numbers are different:Ĭ261 = C107, C263 = C108, C265 (470uf) = C109 (680uf) Main Symptom of this fault:Ī monitor with this fault will blink a couple of times and then start as normal. If your power supply looks different to the pic above, scroll below the 'how to' and look at 'Alternative 206BW Power Board'. Note 3: Mike in Canada reports that his power supply was a different version than the one in the monitor that I fixed. Thanks to Ergo in Estonia for the info and pic. See the picture of the 226BW power board below the 'how to'. Note 2: For the 226BW the fix is very similar, the bad capacitors are C110 (820uf 25v), C111 (820uf 25V) and C112 (330uf 25V). Thanks to Hugh in the UK for the information Note 1: The 223BW power board is similar to the 226bw alternative board, the bad capacitors are 5x 820uf and one 330uf. This is a reasonably easy repair if you are handy with a soldering iron, but, some joints are small and there are some very small surface mount components on the board, so be careful with your soldering iron and sucker as not to "shot gun" the board. All three caps should be tested/replaced. There are three electrolytic capacitors on the power supply board that have probably blown - C261 (1000uf 25v) C263 (1000ufĢ5v) and C265 (470uf 25v). If possible test the screen on another computer first to confirm that it is actually the monitor at fault. Important note: this monitor can display very similar symptoms if the signal lead is loose/disconnected or if the graphics card has died in the PC. My info will always be FREE, But if this helps you, please consider a donation to help keep the site going.
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If your not sure, pay someone else to do it for you. I'm not liable if you damage yourself or your monitor trying this repair.
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Warning: Only attempt this if you are competent to do so! There can be lethal voltages inside the monitor even when its unplugged. All the info in this page is copyright to me as I spent time working it out, so do not put this info on other websites without asking me first. I decided to trace the fault and write this "How to" as I could not find this info anywhere on the net. Some say they used cheap caps so that the monitors would be guarenteed to fail, but its more likely that some office bod said "Oh no Nichicon caps are too expensive, just use cheap ones they work the same"!?! This seems to be due to the fact that for some strange reason Samsung decided to use cheap capacitors in their monitors which are otherwise very well designed and engineered.
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Nearly all Samsung Syncmaster monitors will suffer from 'Bad Caps' similar to those listed on this page. This info is primarily for the Samsung Syncmaster 206BW LCD Monitor, although it has been updated with information relating to other similar Samsung Syncmaster monitors (226BW and 223BW).