back, sorry been away, i switched the lamps places and same exact story, so my suspicion is the lamps are fine and the driver is either busted, OR i am not bypassing that chip correctly, i might have gotten lucky by shorting those two legs, but its not completing the story, but merely giving me "the end"
ill refer to the schematic posted and see what else i can short to make them work better and come back with results
PS. thing says warning high voltage, can 12V power adapter really zap me? it has a half amp and one amp mode inside, but its chinese so you can pretty much half that, if the board upps the voltage to 200-300v to drive the lamps, with super low current, will it be any worse than piezoelectric lighter shocker that has like 10kV? or will it be more like a tazer?
pps. the monitor was never on i found it outside and took it apart, dave taught me not to turn it on but to take it apart, then turn it on