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I am actually still working on it. I am pretty sure I was sent two bad inverter boards. Hard to believe, but now I have three inverter boards and none of them work, but both back lights are perfectly fine. The inverter board shuts the back lights off automatically when it senses that the power going to them are not equal. My original inverter board failed to bring power to the top back lights. I was wrong when I said that the display comes on perfectly for 1-2 seconds. If you look very closely you can see that the bottom is lit up more then the top. I took apart my monitor and took the top back light out to see what was actually going on. My original inverter didn't even light up the top one, the first one I was sent only lit up the top one half way (like it wasn't getting enough power) then shut off in the same manner. I then emailed the ebayer I bought it from and they sent me another one, but the replacement didn't even power on. Be careful with buying the inverter boards on ebay.

I am almost positive I have just had bad luck and now I'm stuck with 3 bad inverter boards.

To make sure it is the inverter board and not the back light you can take the monitor apart and plug the back light that is not lit up into the other back light port and see if it lights up. If it does, then it is your inverter. If it doesn't then it is your back light. These monitors do have 3 year warrenties on them and I don't believe they are 3 years old yet, but if you bought them from bestbuy (like I did) you're out of luck.