SyncMaster of the Universe

When I was visiting my buddy, he pointed out that he had a 24” LCD monitor in the garage that he was throwing out. Sometimes it wouldn’t turn on, he explained. I don’t remember what he said after that, but the monitor ended up in the back of my crappy van full of cool junk, and now it’s here. Ready to be used for… monitoring? This here is a Samsung SyncMaster 245B. It’s a surprisingly chunky LCD from the halcyon year of 2007. It sports a 1920x1200 pixel panel, and it is not working. The blue light on the power button will blink, but nothing happens when you try to turn it on. After hauling it home in the aforementioned cool junk van, I decided I would take a look at my new monitor… someday. And after tripping over it multiple times in a row, that day became “today.” Looking at the internet, the commonly reported problem is that the 68Ω resistors on the power board get baked to death, go super high resistance, and then kill the monitor. On top of that, you have the usual Samsung issues…