*I do NOT suggest you attempt to do so unless you have the 'skills' needed and have done so before. Here is a Guide for fixing such things on your unit Every failure is different and may involve more or less caps. The pic below shows (2) swollen (BAD) caps.

Unplug your monitor completely and open the back, you will find the chinese made capacitors bulging and swollen its -exactly- what happens when they start to fail. >This is quite normal for such an old LCD. These flashes start getting closer together until the monitor stays black' 'I have noticed that if I start with a cold system that the monitor displays correctly at 1600 x 1200 for about 30 seconds and then the screen flashes every few seconds. What you are describing, is a LCD as its dying. Memory: 16GB in 4 G.Skill Ripsaw 2133 sticks I've tried upgrading the driver from Samsung but the driver is old and did not fix the problem. This monitor was on a different PC with a different video card and it was running at 1600 x 1200 without a problem.

These flashes start getting closer together until the monitor stays black, except for the very brief glimpse of the monitor message mention earlier. I have noticed that if I start with a cold system that the monitor displays correctly at 1600 x 1200 for about 30 seconds and then the screen flashes every few seconds. Because I can get the monitor to display at 1280 x 960, I know that things can work. The monitor goes black or the monitor flashes a message on the screen to use the optimal resolution (1600 x 1200). I'm having a problem when I try to drive the 204B at 1600 x 1200.

Syncmaster 204b driver