Did I fry the monitor?

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I have been using a Compaq Armada E500 as a bit of a project PC. It works perfectly, so I took everything totally apart, and it still works perfectly. So I was playing around with it, trying to mount it inside my drawer. I dropped the motherboard, which ended up hanging by a wire (not good) It had partially unplugged, so it was off. I picked it up, but didn't realize that the little circuit board at the bottom (the one that says dangerous, high voltage) was exposed. I touched it (accidently) at the point where the very high voltage is, and zap, big spark, ouch, burned flesh...etc. I figured it would still be fine, because it didn't touch anything metal, but now it doesn't turn on at all.

The circuit board was plugged into the laptop (power source) but not into the monitor, so I am pretty sure that the monitor is still OK. But what could have broken?

I triple checked that everything is connected properly, so it isn't that.

BTW, I actually have a little hole in my thumb from that :D But it doesn't hurt...lol :)
 
I touched it (accidently) at the point where the very high voltage is, and zap, big spark, ouch, burned flesh...etc.
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I think something died when that happened. Whenever you see/hear a zap, spark, burning, explosion then you know something just died lol. If everything is set up the same way as it was before then it's probably dead.
 
Yasu said:
I think something died when that happened. Whenever you see/hear a zap, spark, burning, explosion then you know something just died lol. If everything is set up the same way as it was before then it's probably dead.
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Why does that mean that something died? All I did was touch a wire....wouldn't it just be a discharge?

Would it be possible to just replace that little circuit board? For a couple bucks?
 
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