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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG/PCE Repair/Mod Discussion => Topic started by: Slypty on May 21, 2015, 07:51:43 AM
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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
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the cart ribbon, you would get no boot or garbled game
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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.