So one of my beloved Samsung 204Ts quit a few weeks ago. Failure mode is the power light comes on but nobody's home, and the front panel controls do absolutely nothing. The only thing that changes the behaviour of the monitor is the physical power switch on the back.
Pulled it apart, replaced all the bulged caps on the power supply board, then realized something was rattling when I was putting it back together. Pulled the signal board out, and the damn thing rattles like a broken incandescent light bulb!
This is a high-density multilayer SMD board - Pretty much completely beyond my ability to do much more than look at it. For curiosity's sake though I would love to identify which component decided to be in multiple pieces inside. Does anyone have any tips for how to narrow down which component is rattling?
If it helps, it's
this guy right here. I think the rattle is coming from the rightmost third of the board.