Hi guys: This is my first time. I have a CTX color monitor that conked out. It's 14 inches, Model 1462ES, made in Hong Kong, with FCC ID: DBL1562. Symptoms are: 1. normal operation if the video signal is not applied yet. front panel LED lights to an orange color. 2. once the video signal is sensed, audible sparking occurs between ground and the terminal connected to the white wire from the flyback transformer. it's the wire that is connected to the insulated rectangular-shaped enclosed plastic connector attached to circular socket around the picture tube . there are three wires coming from the flyback x'former, (big red one)is the high-voltage connected to the crt, then the white one just described, then the small red one connected to one of the pins on the picture tube socket. No display or raster. 3. together with the sparking the front panel LED becomes green in color but breathes in and out as if the main power supply is severely loaded ("sucked of it's juice") as a result of the sparking as described in symptom #2. Is it the picture tube that's shorted, the flyback trasformer, or something in the CRT board? By the way the monitor uses the Philips M34EDC14X CRT. thaks a lot. Glorito Balista etes_oroq@xxxxxxxxx El Triunfo Engineering Services 174 Catane Street, Poblacion 1 Oroquieta City 7207 Philippines __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------ Make your TechAssist database better! Submit Repair Tips here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/ ------------------------------------------ To UNSUBSCRIBE your email address, click here: mailto:techassist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Or send a BLANK email with unsubscribe in the SUBJECT field to the address above.