Vizio E321VL no signs of life.

[rasterdan]

Re: Vizio E321VL no signs of life.

I contacted the seller and he said they had another board in stock he could send me. He also said to keep the original board for now. Very generous in my opinion.

Do you think I should install the board and only connect the power bundle first with nothing else connected and slowly start adding back the external connectors? I don't know if any of the other boards are required for the mainboard to start up.

I was thinking of only the main board and the connector going to the Visio logo for a start, then adding the display board ziff connection, then the sound, and finally the IR connector.

Also, does anyone know how to buzz out the IR board to make sure it is not taking out my main board? Maybe this little board has a short and is blowing something on the main board.

Thoughts? I don't want to blow a potentially good board. This guy is making good on his end.

BTW, I have a 42" plasma tv with a busted display. All the boards are good. I have never parted out boards on ebay or anything like that, does anyone buy up boards like this?

dv

[rasterdan]

Re: Vizio E321VL no signs of life.

Success, today I received a replacement board for one I purchased online and the new replacement mainboard works.

Using the resistor was a nice trick to see that the power supply could handle the load.

When I put the new board in, I only hooked up one cable at a time just to make sure if something else was killing the mainboard, I would know who the killer was. I was suspicious of the IR board so I did that one last. All plugged in and working.

Many thanks for your help.

dv

[budm]

Re: Vizio E321VL no signs of life.

Thanks for the repair follow-up.