Regarding TE Cartridge Ribbon Cable

[Slypty]

I've got a TE with a problem..  After replacing all Caps, I still get a blank screen.   I've read the Video Caps and Backlight Caps with an ESR, and they seem fine.

  A few of the Ribbon Cable solder points became loose during fixing, and I had to re-solder them.  I did a spotty job, and although I do read good resistance values from point to point, I'm not sure if I've soldered too heavily on ribbon connector points, causing some overlap of the connections.

  If, let's just say I did actually connect a few points on the ribbon cable which are supposed to be separate, would I get no reading on the screen with a game.. or would I get a blotched reading.. or an OK reading?  Anybody have an idea?  Thanks

[thesteve]

the cart ribbon, you would get no boot or garbled game

[Keith Courage]

I've seen games glitch and freeze when the ribbon cable is bad. Some short out in the middle of the cable requiring direct soldering of a new wires in place of the original cable.