My LCD finally died

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It lasted for 3 years until recently it started shitting out. I openned it up (Westinghouse LCD-20v5) and took a look at the board to see what's going on. The bulbs appeared to be okay, and there is a faint picture however I did notice some swelling on from the capacitors from my invertor/power board. Particularly from the 1000uF v25 and 200uF capacitors.

I'm heading to Radioshack tomorrow to buy some replacements, my question is do you think it would be wise to maybe get a higher voltage, like 35 or 50v? Couldn't hurt, right?

 

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I would replace all the caps with the same voltage, also when buying caps for a monitor you need to look at the rated temps, when I fixed my brothers monitor I ordered then from digikey.

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I forgot about temp rating, so same voltage is the way to go aye? I'm checking out that site now, thanks for the tips.

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Okay I replaced all the bad capictors, the screen comes on but flickers violently. It does not go black and has picture but it flickers. Any thoughts?

 

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check your refresh rate, make sure it's set to 60p HZ or something like that, but MUST not have an 'i' in the refresh rate

y mintor flickers violently when i set it to an i setting.... p is far better anyways

 

 

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I tried all that. I just threw it in a box for spare parts in the future, and kept the vga and power cable. It was time to get a HD monitor anyways, but that's next paycheck I suppose. :( Thanks for the help guys.

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Did you replace all the caps or just the swelling ones?  sometimes a cap can look ok but be bad, when I replace the I just replace them all