Philips Brilliance - Recent Questions, Troubleshooting & Support

yes in your display ghraphics. and you might try facing the screen toward the wall. Terry

While I have no idea what "F.B.T" is, it sounds like you might well have a broken connection where that electrolytic cap is soldered to the circuit board. Solder points often fail and it's also very common for those caps to go bad, but they're very cheap and easy to replace. Try resoldering the 2 connection points first (use a low wattage soldering iron to avoid damaging the board), and if that doesn't help then try replacing the cap with one of the same capacitance (in mfd or ufd) and same (or even slightly higher) voltage rating. The exact physical size of the replacement cap isn't critical as long as it fits.

Hi, please consider that you have an issue with power supply of your CRT. Before checking any possible active components on it, first check the power switch. Then proceed to check power capacitor in the power supply.

Here's the link for the product support page; http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?ctn=109S20&scy=us&slg=AEN&grp=PC_PRODUCTS_GR&cat=CRT_MONITORS_CA&sct=CRT_MONITORS_GT19_SU Click "User Manuals" on the left. or here is a direct link; http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/1/109s20/109s20_dfu_eng.pdf Check page 28: "The Main Menu displays OSD MAIN MENU LOCKED . Pressing the front control panels hasno effect. How can I unlock this function? Press and hold the OSD menu key for about 10 seconds until picture displays "OSD MAIN MENU UNLOCKED"" Hope this helps :)

Conrad, your manual should tell how to unlock. If you have no manual google search for one. To show your appreciation press the helpful button and follow me on fixya for more tips and info

the last button & press & hold for some seconds it will go off

It would seem something is stopping your computer booting and you suspect it is the monitor. It could be or it might be coincidence and the new monitor has highlighted software problems that have accumulated over time or perhaps your graphics card cannot deliver the performance your new monitor needs. I suggest you test the monitor on a different computer to ensure it works ok and then try it on your own machine after fitting a different hard drive and reloading the operating system so you know it is clean and bug-free. If that fails I suggest you try with a different graphics card.

Go into the setup menu for the video card in your computer and tone down the sharpness control. Watch the monitor when you're doing that so you don't make it out of focus.