Help with IGT maching - screen sometimes dark, sometimes bright. Always tearing

[MRHblue]

This is my first post, so I am sorry if I missed something. I promise I looked at 'New folks start here'.

I bought an Aliens machine a few year ago, and it worked for exactly 1 day. I called the place I bought it from, they answered my calls a few times, but then nothing.

I have included the serial panel, a screen of when it looks good, and when it looks bad. I am happy to link to my YouTube and upload some videos of either if folks think it will help.

It looks to boot up correctly, CERONIX logo looks good, and the colors sweep through on boot. Then it loads the game and the screen is SUPER dark. I know the game well, and when I spin the wheels, the game plays normally. And the touchscreen works.

Sometimes after 10 to 30 minutes, it will come up to full brightness, sometimes not.

Any help would be appreciated! I am very tech savvy, but my soldering will probably need some work if it goes that way.

I would also like to look at other games and such for the cabinet when its back to better working order.

Thanks!

[Stayouttadabunker]

Okay, disconnect everything from the monitor and pull it out of the cabinet.
before we go further, are there any burnt, blackened pins in the connector housings?
If not, separate the LCD monitor unit from the framing enclosure.
Lay the monitor face down on the bench and start removing the zillion Philips screws they put on them to remove a simple back panel cover.
Once you have the cover off, take a good high resolution photo (up to 1000KB) and post it up here.
Take extra pictures for yourself so you'll have something to look at when you want to plug everything back together.

I haven't been inside a Ceronix in a while.
I'm guessing the LCD ballasts are on the left and the AD board is in the middle and the touchscreen controller board is like on the right.
On most of these older LCD monitors, the ballasts fire up the backlighting fluorescents needed to illuminate the Liquid Crystal Displays.
The AD circuit board (Analog/Digital) manages and displays video inputs on the inner LCD screens.
The capacitive touchscreen controller circuit board basically processes touch commands on the outer digitizer panel.
I want to see if anything back there appears to have well...gone to s**t...ohh..okay...gone bad...lol

Take a close up of the capacitors on the ballast board...if any.
The ballast board should have 2 pink and 2 gray wires going to it at each end if I remember correctly.
We want to see if any caps are swollen.
If so, there is a part number etched onto the circuit board itself.
Get that number and we'll locate a replacement for you.

If you have a old analog picture tube in there, forget everything I said because that's a whole different ballgame.

[MRHblue]

It is an LCD display. I will take the photos and get back with you. Thanks for bringing your experience.