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Gateway HX2000: Minimizing visibility of these lines?

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:31:35 -0700

Well, my throwaway display developed 5 lines in storage. It's being used with the Mac Mini 2012, but these lines developed in storage.

Any way to minimize the visibility of these lines, or is the display toast?

⟐ Answer accepted February 03, 2024 at 23:31 MST

Gateway HX2000: monitor for security cameras dvr

Sun, 30 May 2021 22:32:10 -0700

I am trying to hook up my hx2001l monitor to my night owl security camera dvr through the vga port. I can’t seem to bring up the on screen display on the monitor. All I get on the screen is (frequency is out of range). Any thoughts?

The monitor has been working properly for years as the monitor for my wifes home pc

⟐ Commented May 30, 2021 at 22:32 MST

Gateway HX2000: I can barely see the screen

Mon, 18 May 2020 23:01:03 -0700

I can barely see the screen and adjusting it makes no difference

⟐ Answer accepted May 18, 2020 at 23:01 MST

Gateway HX2000: How to access the service mode (ViewSonic VX2033WM)

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:40:02 -0700

I have an HX2000 with known capacitor issues I originally intended to try and repair, but I forgot about it and let it sit. Since I had to reorganize a few things, I remembered about needing to repair this and I did the rough math - it isn’t going to be cheap because I need to rework the entire power supply as I have not been able to pull a stable number off of any of the caps, indicating a fair amount of them need replacement to the point it makes more sense to condemn them all and do it in one session.

The point of contention I have is that the panel has multiple surface layer chips (non affecting but cosmetic) and a isolated crack where I can’t see anything but black, but is nothing more then a very small point of damage at most. I want to get into the service mode to check how many hours are on the panel to see if it’s a high mileage display or the panel hours are low. While I’m willing to look into it, I want to see how many hours this has on it since it’s so old and has panel damage that is mostly superficial. I also ran it nearly 24/7 for 3-4 years on top of whatever was on it prior to me getting it since it’s so old (6/12/2009).

Forgive the recycled photos but this is the damage to the panel:

*Good images*

I have tried power+back, power+forward, power+menu and none of these did it. I hope Gateway just had the command changed in some sad attempt to hide it’s ViewSonic origins and didn’t remove it outright.

⟐ Edited by author September 26, 2019 at 18:40 MST

Gateway HX2000: What would cause the power to the monitor to be unstable?

Sun, 22 Sep 2019 05:16:38 -0700

I got this HX2000 used a few years ago, so I do not know the history of the unit prior to me getting it. That being said it has been working very well so I do not think the monitor is in bad shape internally. However, I set it aside because 900p has largely fallen out of favor and can be difficult to live with. I have pulled it out of storage because I have plans to use it for a few projects I am working on. Anyway, this monitor has 2 different issues:

Image ghosting

Inversion problems

For reference, this is how I tested the monitor. What is throwing me off is I don't see typical signs of failing capacitors. While the capacitors look okay visually, it isn't out of the question. It still has the original capacitors as well. From what I see, it looks like a panel or input board problem.

While I am willing to attempt a repair, my budget is limited because of some panel chipping that doesn't affect the monitor to the point of being unusable (with many being surface level) but one of them extends to the entire LCD itself (but is isolated). I'm flexible on this, but I'd really like to stay under what a typical used LCD monitor (in working condition) will probably cost locally (~$20-30, most likely). I'm going to say $10 is my hard limit. The local Radio Shack closed some time back, so I can't buy the capacitors for $1-2 each locally to recap both the power supply and input board anymore.

Here is some photos of the capacitors on the video board and power supply, along with the panel damage

1 year update… Yeah, I didn’t get to this one for some time. Posting for closure.

I tested a small group of capacitors on the monitor (C819/823/820/837/840) and I cannot get a reading. As such, I think this one needs a full recap - if it’s worth trying. Since I sat on it so long (mainly because I paid $1 for it), it isn’t a display I desperately care about. I think I’ll run it until it dies and then move on unless I can think of a case a 1600x900 monitor is worth doing a full recap I don’t know if it’ll fix it or not.

It’s in need of 10 capacitors if I go for a full recap, so in a way it’s not one of those $5 experimental ones. I need to have some assurance. In lieu of a repair, I have provided a capacitor list based on what I found in mine to help others. I have another monitor that’s in perfect shape and have no trouble with getting good used ones (or finding ones with the right fault), so I didn’t really want to address this one. Not to mention getting it for $1 and probably 3-4 years is more then enough for me.

⟐ Edited by author September 22, 2019 at 5:16 MST