This may seem off topic of the sites purpose… Or at least I assume anything non-cap related is off topic… But I need some help replacing a broken trimmer potentiometer.

You see, I broke off one of the two trimpots used on my Nintendo DS Lite when I was doing a case swap… I thought they were screws. >< Needless to say they control the screen flicker/dimmer. The one I broke off is VR2, and controls the upper screen.

Now below I've attached a little snapshot of a working board, this is what it should look like, my one is obviously missing VR2.
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Hello. I'm going to try and attack several question in a single post. For starters I am somewhat new, yet not at the same time...

To begin, I am trying to repair my LCD monitor and Nintendo DS Lite. The Lite we'll get to later as it's somewhat off topic.

My LCD is a Samsung SyncMaster 216BW. It has experienced the classic screen-flicker problems that scattered these forums. A detailed explanation is as follows… If the monitor was plugged in continuously and ever turned off, turning it back on, if not instantly, would result in the screen-flicker to black image after...