It looks like a heat sink was previously attached to the top of that IC and what you are seeing there is the usual white thermal coupling grease. If...
It is much easier to help if you can post the schematic of the particular monitor you are dealing with then also indicate where on the schematic you...
I just looked at the monitor schematic. The monitor has its own H scan osc. It will run with no H sync and no V sync input either. The V oscillator ...
The hole on the upper part of the panel might be for a power ON LED. There is a SOL on ebay that has a lamp in that position. It would also help hold...
yes it could be, but the slow motion of it means its changing over a number of frames too, the first move would be to look at the v sync on the scope...
It is almost certain that the resistor had the power supply across it, in other words feeding a dead short, to glow and burn up like that, otherwise...