First post, by andre_6
Hello everyone,
I'm not sure if an LCD LG W1942S from 2008 can be considered "old" or "retro", but it's definitely not new. It's been manifesting some increasingly worse symptoms with it and I would like to ask for your help.
Basically from around 2 months back up to now every time I turned the monitor on, either with the PC or just "waking" it from suspension, I started getting some light "wind" on the image, that went away in about a minute, leaving a perfect picture again until the next time I turned on the monitor from a long period off/in suspension.
As time passed that "wind" going along the screen started to increase, and in the last month the monitor switches off immediately when I try to turn it on from a long period of inactivity/being off. Removing the power cord, giving it a few seconds and plugging it again starts to show some signs, and eventually springs it fully back to life after a few tries.
Today the same happened again as usual, but this time I got the most severe case of image "wind" until now, with the image eventually filling up so much the screen started to "bleach" itself. Turning it off and on again gave a perfect image, and I'm using it now with a crystal clear image.
Does anyone know what could be causing this issue? If it's the monitor itself it's fine, I figured either it's something within reach of my meagre soldering skills or I imagine it's just a product of planned obsolescence so I'll just replace it in that case...
But I wanted to check with you here so I can be sure that it's indeed a monitor issue and nothing else, and if possible, what is causing these issues and if there's a solution (i.e.: replace a specific part).
Thanks everyone, looking forward to find out more about this, happy holidays