First let me once more send my sincere regards to the experts here(and for those keeping score at home, the nanao I was helped with a while back is still running great I'm happy to report).
That being said, the monitor gods apparently hate my guts because now my large monitor(the pentanic mentioned in subject line) has gone out on me....as before, I know very little about monitors, but am familiar with basic electronics(can fix pcbs, etc.) so be sure to use small words that I can understand ...the story:
Well, ironically enough, there was no defining event that caused this to happen; it simply worked one minute and not the next. I was working on converting a positional uzi by snk to work on my steel gunner 2 board...was working fine but had hooked up the U/D & L/R incorreclty, so turn it off and go fix that...come back turn it back on...chirping with no picture...everything I was doing was at the harness level however and nowhere near the internals of the monitor so I seriously doubt this had anything to do with it as I'm pretty familiar with boards(just not monitors)and again it's a positional uzi so it has no direct line to the monitor or anything like that...monitor ust blew out on its own in other words, which I suppose is no great shock as once I got it open it was marked as being made in august '97...at any rate, it says it's a model 1132 on the sticker, however there is also a marking on the board which reads: CH-288. The monitor sticker(on the tube itself) says: A80PNT29X...It's either a 29" or 33" (haven't measured it lately and it isn't marked on it anywhere, but as memory serves, it's a 29"...I think...)Ok, so that's as much as I can do as far as identifying the monitor/chasis...
The symptom:
Well as soon as you power on the monitor begins a regular, constant chirping sound...you can, of course, hear the games loading & Running, but no display at all, and though I cannot tell for certain, seems like it's not even turning on....just chirping with no picture...
Things I noticed(may or may not be helpful):
The "tube" thing on the back of the monitor(the yoke?) does not appear to glow at all...I noticed this because it does glow on my other 3 monitors when they are turned on....the chirping definately seems to be coming from this general area as well(cannot pinpoint it exactly)...
the onboard fuse is not blown so nothing that simple(damnit!)....
There is 1 capacitor (the orange, round kind) that seems to have a small black "spot" or "chip" on the top of it...but could 1 tiny capacitor in a non-important looking location really cause this? I've had boards with capacitors chipped much worse than this and they still worked fine...
Also, something I noticed that I thought was odd...there was a small string of glue going from one of the heat sinks down to the tube thingy(the one that isn't glowing)...this in and of itself wasn't weird as I understand the glue is added at the factory, etc....what was odd to me was that the string would pulse in perfect time with the chirping...reinforcing my suspicion that the chirping originates in this area...
What else....uh.....well, I've read on the boards so far that a likely culprit is the HOT(?) but the problem is I dunno what this is or where to find it....also read you can disconnect it and connect a light bulb to test it...but again, without knowing where or what it is, I cannot do this, so I suppose a good place to start would be to let me know what I'm looking for here(honestly I have my suspicions but I'm just too afraid to touch anything without knowing for certain what it is first)...
Have also read it could be a power problem? But again, not sure how to test for this on a monitor...so could use some help there too...
So that's all I know and the theories I'm leaning towards at present...if someone could help get me started testing these things(or giving me other options to test out) I would GREALTY appreciate it....I have a MVC2 on the way and wanted to put it in this cab
I could cry!
So thanks in advance and I really hope someone can help out.