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Had a similar issue with an old samsung synchmaster. The capacitors were the problem.

There are a lot of similar 10 year old reports on the net. E.g.: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=24494&highlig...

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https://badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=69534 says it's most likely the regulator on this screen

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Bad caps was a very common problem in the old days, I remember I replaced the ones on my motherboard at least twice. The classical symptom was that heating the motherboard will allow the PC to start.

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Yes,"Capacitor plague" it was called. There's an interesting story about espionage and incomplete stolen formula in the wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague