Immediately after Advanced Micro Devices unleashed its newest platform portfolio, Acer(Acer BATBL50L6 Battery) made the official introduction of not just new netbooks, but also ultrathin and mainstream notebooks based on them. In the meantime, Gateway (owned by Acer) has been seeing to the company’s collection of PCs based on Intel Chips also staying up-to-date. To [...]

People who regularly ‘surf the net’ probably know all about the minor aches and pains that can arise when using computers for long hours. These back, shoulder and neck pains often seem insignificant to the user. Others subconsciously link the cause to other areas of their life such as an overindulgent exercise session, their workload [...]

My new Panasonic Plasma sadly has a bit of a flickering problem. In this video I have filmed a web page (skysports.com) in slow motion on both my 75hz Samsung LCD monitor (using PC) and the aforementioned 100hz Panasonic plasma (using PS3). I know they are different technologies but this will highlight why the Pano [...]

LG 710E 17” CRT Monitor came in with the complaint of power blink. A power blink problem can be cause by either in primary or secondary section or even in both sections. A defective power IC, power fet breakdown when under load, high esr in electrolytic capacitor, increased in current sense resistor value, a [...]

If you think that electronic repair is very difficult to learn then you have to read this article where only by using a solder gun could solve a Monitor color problem. Of course there were many tough dog cases (very difficult to find out the fault) in electronic repair but at the same time [...]

This Samsung 713N LCD monitor came in with no display symptom and no power. In other words, once you switched ‘on’ you could see the power LED lights up (no display) and then for couples of seconds the power led light goes off. When I removed the signal cable and switched ‘on’, now I [...]

TV tuner card problem with WMCE (Lumanate Angel Dual tuner) MediaCenter I have a Dell Dimension 9200 with 3GB ram, 512MB nVidia graphics card running with Windows Media Center Edition. I put a Lumanate Angel II Dual TV tuner card in it and installed the latest drivers. It shows up in Hardware in the [...]

One of the common problems in Samsung 153v LCD Monitor was display dim. If you get closer to the screen and begin to observe the display under dark environment you actually could see the display but it was very dim. If you press the front panel button, the on screen display (OSD) would appeared [...]

3 year old LCD monitor exhibiting strange behavior.

This Acer AJ17 Monitor came in with the complaint of wide screen and distortion (line swimming) across the vertical line of the display. Although you can adjust the horizontal size, you just can’t make it into smaller and the horizontal size still big and curve inward. You could also clearly see all the vertical lines [...]