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Dell monitor - power button broken

  • 11-12-2008 02:37AM
    #1
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭


    I've a Dell monitor, 1707FPt, and the power button is broken for the past few weeks. It's about two years old and out of warranty (Dell used to give a three year warranty on monotors when bought with a system but since about 2005 have limited the monitor warranty to the length of the system warranty).

    Basically the button won't work to turn the thing on or off. At the moment it's on so I can't turn it off. This isn't that much of a problem as I just switch it from digital input to analog input when I want to turn it off so it goes into powersave mode. Flick it back when I want to turn it on and it works well.

    However, as some day the power will be disconnected, I'm assuming that as a soft button, it will need to be turned back on after a power disconnection, giving me problems then.

    The button is one of those with an LED inside to indicate that it's on so I'm assuming there's a little plastic offset in there to turn it on and off. I'm guessing that that's broken (obviously a pox on the company that made it and offsets are evil anyway as they're prone to breaking).

    Solutions anyone? I'll happily take it apart if necessary, however I know that Dell don't assemble the thing themselves so I'm working on the basis that there isn't a replacement plastic bit to be had (though if anyone's got a broken monitor with a fixed plastic bit I'd really appreciate it). And budget's extremely tight for the next long while so I'd rather not have to suddenly buy a new monitor for what after all is a tiny bit of broken plastic with no circuitry (presumably) attached.


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  • #2
    witnessmenow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,364 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    If you could remove the plasitc part of the button it might be possible to be able to turn it on and off with a pen or something?

    Even if it was more damaged than that, it would be pretty simple to wire it up to emulate a button press, just solder a piece of cable to either end of where the button is pressing and touch them together when you want to turn it on, looks ugly but would do the job :)

    Also this link might help


    Good luck


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