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    Gateway gtw-p50m203 power supply issue

    Hey all so I have this other set that I have been working on for a while. Originally I received it with flickering pic upon startup. This is attributed to failing surface mounted caps 25v 33mfd going south on the y sustain. Well my father in law ran this set for 2 years after I repaired it. But started it again so I used the heat gun method on the y board and pic came back.

    While its having the issue the transformers in the vs circuit are making a heck of a noise. When I find the offending cap on the y board the hiss in the power supply goes away. But this time as I powered up it blew a ceramic resistor 2.4 ohm off the vs load on the power supply. I believe it's for power sensing through a series of components and makes its way to an optocoupler. I replace the burned out rectangle ceramic power resistor and still no vs. va comes up for a split second until power supply shutdown causing a 5 blink alarm on the power supply error led. So I get va momentArly no vs. all low voltage dc supply's are there. The odd thing is that the power supply has a va and a vs ok signal from mainboard seperatly . Both are 3.3v at the time which leads me to believe the issue is mainly in the power supply. Pfc is working. I have dc to the primary's of the vs transformers but no secondary output from what I can tell with my fluke. I have tested signals from the vs on optos and the two are inline with va on on the va side. Just no vs output. I'm stumped. I have tested all switchers diodes and fets. Anyone else run into this? This is a lg built set and the unit is basically a sampo. 2003 build date. Power supply is manufactured by powerex pw-1550 and the resistor that originally blew is r24 and lg part number on the board is 3501q00004a
    Oh and I have tried disconnecting y and z from power supply too and there are no shorts between vs and ground so nothing loading down the supply.
    Last edited by freakaftr8; 10-09-2012, 12:10 PM. Reason: Added info
    Did I leave the soldering iron on?
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