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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: ctoomey on March 12, 2007, 07:30:54 AM

Title: Turbo Express DEAD SCREEN...Working towards a cure.
Post by: ctoomey on March 12, 2007, 07:30:54 AM

I thought I'd start a thread for this...

On a dead screen unit I have, I connected the TV Tuner and a BAD picture (looked like a film negative) with static etc actually showed up. I then turned off the tuner and the game screen came on. Again though, it was 'streaky' and looked like it had a slow refresh rate (non tech terms I know) as everything was blurring pretty badly. It seems like the tv tuner signal actually 'jump started' the screen and now it will work (terrible picture though) every time I fire it up.

I then took another screen (basically the entire 'top half' of a TE) and plugged it into the dead screen unit and it jumped to life.

So, it looks like the screen issues are in the screen as opposed to being a capacitor issue etc...Not sure where to go from here with it but thought I'd put this info out there if others have also been tinkering to find a solution to this issue.

Title: Re: Turbo Express DEAD SCREEN...Working towards a cure.
Post by: Keranu on March 18, 2007, 11:34:39 AM

Very interesting, I made a thread months ago about ways of fixing TE screen problems. Thanks for this information.

Title: Re: Turbo Express DEAD SCREEN...Working towards a cure.
Post by: ctoomey on March 19, 2007, 04:05:29 AM

Cool, can you re post the link for that? I didnt see it....Thanks!!!

Title: Re: Turbo Express DEAD SCREEN...Working towards a cure.
Post by: Keranu on March 19, 2007, 12:23:07 PM

Hmm, I thought I made a seperate thread for it, but I guess I didn't. You can find the posts here http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=1546.0 .

Title: Re: Turbo Express DEAD SCREEN...Working towards a cure.
Post by: ctoomey on March 23, 2007, 10:36:50 AM

So I am assuming my screen is shot since when I plug in the back of my TE to another unit with a working screen it works fine. The 'Broken' unit is streaky and looks like its not refreshing quickly (non techie I know)....Any ideas? Thanks