I know I saw it in VG&CE and Gamepro but the EGM issue is the one that sticks in my mind:
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Show posts MenuQuote from: thesteve on 10/04/2012, 08:07 PMnew ground?I ran a temporary ground wire from one of the shielding points back to the battery pack wiring until I can fix the damage around the AC adapter jack. Yes, I can remove the transistor.
can you temporarily remove the transistor
Quote from: thesteve on 10/04/2012, 06:53 PMyes the shields are groundWith the new ground I now get the backlight and light static in the headphone jacks and nothing else. Also, transistor Q502 gets really hot very fast. I'm thinking that there still is a dead short somewhere.
power comes in, goes through filter, to power jack, to filter, to fuse, to switch.
from switch it splits to 5V supply, -24V supply and backlight inverter
Quote from: thesteve on 10/04/2012, 04:54 PMlolI'm sure I did that too and got nothing. I'll be home in 20 minutes or so and I can take a look at it then. I'm really suspect of the area where the power comes in from the AC jack and the battery connection. The AC jack was toast and had burnt the board and ruined the pads where it was soldered on. I removed my repair from the area just to be sure that it was not shorting out anything but there was no change.
you need to be checking + lead to - lead on each cap
Quote from: thesteve on 10/04/2012, 03:00 PMboth sides?Positive lead on each of the the capacitor leads, negative lead on the negative lead from battery connection.
to ground..........
so you lost a ground
Quote from: thesteve on 10/04/2012, 01:04 AMthe chipset and sound should work without the 24, its for the screen only.The caps were a kit I bought specifically for the TE. There is 5V on both sides of all the caps.
the pop is from the amp, not the chipset.
what caps did you use?
and please check them for voltage (meter across cap power on)
Quote from: thesteve on 10/04/2012, 12:01 AMany sound?Nothing. Not from the speaker or the headphone jack, not even a pop when you turn the system on. Both the speaker and the headphone jack were working properly before the problems started.
Quote from: thesteve on 10/03/2012, 10:46 PMcheck the 5V regulator for system function, and the 24V supply for the brightness issue.I have 5V at every cap but I could not find 24V anywhere.
the 5V can be found on most caps.
the 24V on 1 cap and 1 pin on the display