Crackling Monitor

[Mr. Pedantic]

It's a 19" Philips LCD. It's nearly 5 years old now. Basically what happens is whenever the power cable is plugged in the monitor starts crackling, and you can smell ozone coming out of the grille at the top.

The monitor had this problem before, but it was intermittent and usually just wiggling the cable a bit would sort it out, but now no amount of wiggling will make the crackling go away. This last happened about 5 months previously, and for about 2 months it worked perfectly fine. About 3 months ago we started some house renovations that involved moving this monitor (my secondary) into storage for a bit while the rest of the house was worked on; basically taking out a couple of walls, adding a new room, and gib-stopping and repainting.

I've tried using different cables, using the cables on the primary monitor (a newer 22" LCD) and wiggling the cable around (as I said, it used to work, but doesn't anymore). It can still display images fine, but I'm afraid that if I use it it'll only be a matter of time before it borks completely. Is there a solution to this problem, or should I just scrap this monitor and maybe get a new one?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'd either get a new one, or take it apart and resolder whatever connections are loose. Probably in the power supply.

 

[shangshang]

It has bad capacitors. You can actually open up the monitors and replace the bad (buldging & leaking) capacitors. I use capacitors from dead motherboards. Many LCD issues can be traced back to bad capacitors.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I don't have the technical knowledge, nor the equipment, to replace components on a circuit board. In any case, I don't have any spare caps to replace them with; all the hardware I have at the moment is working and in use.