Monitor Repair Ideas

[DrMag]

One of my monitors has started flickering badly when it first turns on--it does this for as much as a full minute before finally staying lit. Obviously time for a new monitor!

Or not... I'm trying to learn how to diagnose (and hopefully repair) equipment, and I'd like to try my hand at this one. My first guess, as I've learned from Dave's repair videos and seeing others' work, is to replace the capacitor. That would also make sense, because the flickering is quite periodic, which implies an oscillator (and thus likely a capacitor) is happening somewhere.

For those with experience, what else might be good for me to look at or replace in debugging the problem? Has anyone experienced this kind of failure and fixed it? Given it's a flicker (and not something else like a delayed refresh), where is the problem most likely to be occurring--the power supply?

[helius]

Likely the CCFL is worn out and should be replaced. It flickers at a particular frequency as the inverter tries repeatedly to start it and then waits to avoid overheating.