7176I / ACER [17" monitors]

• OSD moved to far right so only half is visible.
• Clicking noises.
• E/W cannot be adjusted. (ACER - 7176I information)
• Reduced horizontal size.
• Powers down with a burning smell.
• Dead. Green LED lit.
• No picture. OSD menu present.
• Bright with flyback lines or dark picture.
• Pincushion distortion.
• Poor pin cushion.
• No variable voltage.
• ABL adjustment.
• Picture instable and pumping (about 1mm).
• No picture content. Background gets bright when G2 increased.
• Horizontal centre adjustment.
• Functions intermittently.
• No picture. LED is yellow like standby. Horizontal- and vertical deflection are present.
• Picture quivers in width to 2cm. (7176I ACER repair tip)
• Dead. Yellow power light flashes. Occasionally relay also clicks.
• Retrace line not blinking.
• Background adjustment.
• Pincushion effect. Noise bar in display. (7176I tips)
• No picture.
• Dead. Amber LED flashes every 2-3 secs.
• Picture breaks irregularly in the line.
• B+ adjustment.
• Q311 shorted.
• Colour end stage (blue) is defective. (ACER - 7176I information)
• No picture just white screen.
• Monitor does not start up. PSU chirps.
• Screen is only red.
• Change mode failure. (ACER - 7176I information)
• No start-up.
• Inadequate picture and bleedover when contrast increased.
• No vertical size control.
• Excessive width with E/W bowing.
• Shuts down.
• No blue.
• Resolutions and picture repeat frequency. (ACER - 7176I information)
• Transistors Q311, Q312 and Q313 work for about an hour and then fail again.
• Horizontal overlapping picture out of frequency. (7176I tip from ACER)
• Too bright or too dark - intermittent.
• Picture disappears after longer operation time. LED becomes yellow.
• After switch on picture appears for a short time, lines foldover, picture disappears.
• Picture width jitters - intermittent - in all resolutions.
• No output.
• PSU is ticking.
• Picture width alters. Occasionally picture is white.
• E/W-fault: Q321 has S/C after some time.
• Bright raster. Retrace lines.
• Vertical lines on right hand side of picture.
• No raster.
• Size regulation.
• Yellow picture.
• H-size pre-setting.
• Horizontal hold adjustment.
• Geometry specifications.
• Focus voltage flashover at the spark gap.
• Mains voltage and power consumption.
• Poor focus.
• Pincushion, trapezium cannot be regulated, black line in picture. Q313 gets very hot.
• Contrast and brightness factory setting.
• Intermittently dead.
• Horizontal phase shift - no control. (7176I tips)
• HV starts up briefly, then the monitor switches off.
• Goes into protective circuit.
• Fuse broken.
• Spot killer faulty.
• Dead. Amber LED OK.
• Inadequate colour. Green drive CTL inoperative.
• Focus adjustment.
• Pulsing then attempts to power up.
• No red.
• HV adjustment.
• PSU and line end stage fail again.
• No horizontal size control.
• Specifications.
• Wavy picture. Unstable horizontals.
• Horizontal output transistor keeps failing.
• Smoked.
• Partial line collapse.
• Horizontal linearity fault.
• Dead.
• Intermittent picture, standby LED and sync.
• Excessive width. OSD controls not pulling in picture.
• White raster but no video. (7176I tip from ACER)
• No picture, no OSD and white raster.
• Horizontal phase and picture height vary intermittently.
• Fails horizontally. White vertical line in centre.
• Dead. Amber LED on front flashes every 3-5 secs.
• Goes off. Burning smell.
• Screen is bright with flyback lines.
• E/W fault.
• E/W output stage is defective.
• No HV.
• E/W-distortion and no function.
• Dead. Amber LED steady (powers up with LED disconnected). (7176I ACER repair tip)
• E/W is distorted, vertical lines are bent.
• Horizontal output transistor Q311 shorted repeatedly.
• One colour missing. No fault can be measured on the RGB board. (7176I ACER repair tip)
• Convergence adjustment.
• No green.
• No high voltage. LED only lights up yellow.
• E/W fault. Sometimes a 3cm wide dark stripe wanders from the left to the right. (7176I tips)
• Dead or goes black intermittently (common problem).
• Screen gets too bright after operating for a few hours.
• No power up. Amber LED flashing.
• Flickering picture.
• No i-screen, i.e. intelligent OSD with white text on blue background.
• Smoke from power supply.
• Pincushion. Sides lean inward and user adjustment slightly bulges.
• Power supply whistles shortly after switch on.
• No vertical deflection.
• Foreground adjustment.
• No brightness control. (7176I ACER repair tip)
• Picture becomes too bright.
• High voltage abnormal.
• E/W defective, picture present.
• E/W trapezium adjustment.
• PSU electrolytics are destroyed and VRT 601, 602 are defective.
• No picture no vertical synchronisation.
• No power up. High voltage tries to come up and surges. Amber light flashes.
• Horizontal shift.
• No horizontal deflection.
• Screen is only bright with flyback lines. (7176I ACER repair tip)
• Geometry adjustment.
• PSU switches off immediately.
• Wavy picture.
• Pulsating at start up, LED cycling yellow and green, powers up when warm.
• Brightness slows down after warming up.
• No EHT, relays on PSU operate.
• No RGB output.