I got a LOAD of these from a corporate network to repair (80+ so far). According to their head tech, they didn't even live a year. They're packed with 'OST' caps, and we all know how nice those are..... 
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oh nice....i am going to have to recap that P4C800 deluxe then. has those purple ost caps
around the cpu.
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It's taken a while to recap them, close to 7 days so far, and I still have about 15 to go.... I could probably crank 'em out faster, but then this actually feels like a 'job'....
Once this batch goes back, another is coming in...
It's a 1-man show here too... No wonder I havent posted much lately... I just decided to take this weekend off and play... 
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nice earner though
heh, you should try working in an office, i try to hide in the server room otherwise i have to find people's dissapearing menubars 
and stuff. i started doing another office down the corridor also. the two VL6s came from there. could run the whole building if i had a few people. setup a datacenter 
and stuff with a fat connection, lease pcs and stuff. I will do that somewhere if things turn bad. thing is that i dont really enjoy support but it is something which i know what to do. if i can get small office linux file/mailserver solutions down then we will be in business. you cannot imagine on what crap some people are running a business on down here. there is lots of work to be done but only cost effective reliable solutions will get the work. just lost some business cos I quoted 1200 euro for each new comp while the other guy quoted 800.
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Vizio e601i-A3 - Has Sound and Display, But No Backlight - Bad Power Supply Board or Bad LED Bulbs ?I was given this TV from my great uncle. He said it just wouldn't turn on one day out of nowhere, replaced the TV, and gave it to me to possibly fix and use for myself.
Upon bringing it home and plugging it up, it showed a standby light.
I powered it on and without a flashlight, the display showed the "V" but the lighting is very dim, but visible.
The screen seems to blackout and stay black, but with a flashlight I can see the display.
With my Playstation 4 connected via HDMI, and running a game I can hear sound.
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Hi, this is my personal laptop, which the original board (lets call it Board A) blew up PU8700 (TPS51486), making a hole on the board, i had left the laptop at my desk one day with the battery fully charged and didn't touch it for a week, but when i tried to turn it on it didn't
Thought the battery was dead, so i plugged in the charger then tried to power on, the power LED blinked once, charged LED still orange, unplugged the charger, plugged in again and I noticed the "magic smoke" smell, so i unplugged the charger, removed the back cover and saw the blown IC (the "magic... -
Normally, I never post repairs this quick after I do them, because… I am usually very slow.
But today, I’m making an exception here. Why? No idea. Perhaps only because the repair details are still “fresh” in my head… which is ironic, given this is a 16 year old monitor that hardly anyone will care about today. It is new to me, though. 
I picked it up last November from someone on my local Craigslist. It wasn’t very close to where I live, but was close to a family friend that I had to go visit anyways. So after watching the posting on Craigslist for a few weeks and seeing it getting...
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Hi and thanks in advance for any input you might provide!
I have a Sceptre U550CV-UMRD8POTV83BB 4K LED (this is a dumb tv) that I bought new in August 2021, so It's just completed 3 years.
Main power board model: TP.MS3683.PC821 T-Con board: N4TP546UHDPU2L_BO
Last Sunday I was watching a dvd and fell asleep for about half hour, when I awoke the tv screen was black and couldn't get the dvd menu to show, so I changed the input to antenna and had sound but no picture, turned it off. I then got online and found this great site! ....read many troubleshooting tips and this... -
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I have a Samson Resolv studio monitor that has no sound output. I've opened it up and found two caps that are bulging on what I believe to be the power supply section of the amplifier board. The board is marked Resolv 65A AMP V1.2. The caps in question are YUSCON, 2200uF, 35V, 85C temp and have markings of RA(P) and are 16mm x 25.5mm tall. I've attached the schematic and the caps in question are C5 and C6. I'm assuming they are low esr caps. I've tested both caps and they test low uF, nowhere near 2200uF.
I'm going to replace the caps and I'll be the first...
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