Opening the HP W1907 LCD

Waranty is 2 days out, and I wake up to a 1" mountain range accross the bottom and the usual random pixel rows turned on to various colors. I unplug after turning off, and pick it up for an intuitive look and sniff and realise there is something rolling around in there! My question is how to open the case without going postal?

haha, been there. This ones a little tricky. Hope you have strong fingers. start by removing the base. There are 3 screws. First pull the base plate off. Then remove 2 screws. Next remove the little rubber insert in the center of the base bracket. You will need a long phillips to get to the 3rd screw. Slide out the base bracket. Flip the panel over and stare at the lcd with the buttons side on the top. Grab a small flat head screw driver. Look at an angle in each of the corners between the inner black lcd trim and the silver outside trim. There is a slit. Shove the flathead in there and pry outward toward the silver trim while lifting on the black inner trim vertically. The trick is to flex the black trim toward the silver and then pull up. There are 6 plastic snaps on the top and bottom, and 4 snaps on the left and right. If you've taken laptop screens apart, you'll feel the similarity.

Once you pry the black trim off the front. Disconnect the LCD Menu button assembly and power button. Then flip over the LCD and lift off the back shell. Looking at the back, remove the 2 connectors for the speakers. Use a small flathead to pry the 4 Inverter power connectors. These 4 connectors have a clip on them and are usually hard to pull out using the wire. Once thoses 6 connectors are removed, remove the 2 phillips screws holding the AC power plug to the case. Also remove the 4 3/16 posts for the VGA and DVI ports. Next remove 4 screws, 2 screws from each side of the LCD assembly. Hold the panel face down with the aluminum tape in the bottom left. Lift the shield and guide the 6 wires through the cage. While opening, look inside and disconnect the flat ribbon cable as soon as you can. Put the LCD to the side. Remove 2 screws from the Video processing board, and 5 screws from the power supply. Note: 1 of the 5 screws is longer. Rotate/slide the power PCB away from the cage to clear the speaker and AC plug, Then rotate towards the Video board. Disaconnect 1 plug. The OTHER plug is SOLDERED and must be disconnected from the video processing board.

There you have it. It stumped me for about a half hour. No pry marks. Barely noticed the 2 slits in between the trims. Well, good luck. Happy Soldering.

PS: I opened mine because I assumed it had bad capacitors. It only powers on for a short short period of time.

Your direction was very helpful, thank you. It was a pain to get apart, but I, like you, have the same problem with monitor going "black" after it warms up. Shut it off and turn back on, picture is good for a few min's, if that then out again.
What did you find to be the problem with yours???
Much appreciated if you can help, thanks

Hi,
Same problems for my HP W1907....
I disassembled the lcd down but couldn't find any CCFL bulb.
Just white plastic panel with 4 cables on the top and bottom of one side.

Does it have a different type of bulbs?
Can any one give instruction to replace the bulbs?
Thanks

Ok, all of this info is great! However, the BIG question is this: Where do I purchase the CCFL bulbs? I have looked everywhere and I have no clue where to purchase them. Anyone have any information on that?

Step three of this was a big help for me.
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcit [...] 323546.pdf

Same problem here, followed the instruction to take her apart, finally got to the bulbs(capacitors look fine) and they look pretty good.

All the bulbs have a little black on each end, but they all work.

I plugged them back into the board with the monitor still dismantled, plugged in the AC cord and powered her up.

*Wear sunglasses if you attempt this*

Stuff is Bright.

I was expecting either the top or bottom bulbs to give out, or single bulb, but instead they all flicker and go out at the same time.

So could the culprit of this problem still be the bulbs?

What else could it be?

Followed this thread all the way down. Did you find a solution after you ripped off the shrink wrap?

I was having the same problem with my monitor. Unlike you guys, I did not have to replace the bulbs. My problem was on the power supply. There were 2x 1000uf 25v caps that were bulging ever so slightly. I had 2 on hand anyway so I changed them out while I was inside checking everything out. Everything seems to be fine now. I've been using it for the past hour and it has not went to the black screen yet.