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Elusive_Cure

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Last Activity: 12-04-2020, 05:46 AM

Joined: 11-30-2007

Location: Greece

Elusive_Cure replied to Toshiba Satellite - Locks up when plugged in

in Troubleshooting Laptops, Tablets, and Mobile Devices

09-28-2014, 06:36 AM
Re: Toshiba Satellite - Locks up when plugged in

Hey guys, thanx for the helpful repair procedure and photos, i just successfully repaired one A300 with the same NEC capacitor problem. I managed to scavenge six 300mf smd caps from a dead motherboard, desoldered the NEC, and soldered on the pads 4 caps just as shown on your pics.

Now the laptop is up and running perfectly, and i can charge my client properly for the job well done.

Cheers. ...

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Elusive_Cure replied to Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

in Troubleshooting TVs and Video Sources

12-06-2007, 05:55 PM
Re: Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

......i see ... that B+ got me confused ...... that must be R472 (4,7 1/2 W)

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Elusive_Cure replied to Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

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12-06-2007, 06:15 AM
Re: Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

tvtech thanx for the useful post...

i live in the countryside of Greece, so I'm waiting till next week when i'll travel to Athens for business, so i'll buy myself the components from an electronics store i know. Thank you for the offer though....

the tech stays in business because he's the only one around here, so he never runs out of customers....

i opened the tv two days ago and i saw that he changed C456 and C455 with old caps, not fresh ones, and when i looked at the bottom of the board to see...

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Elusive_Cure replied to Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

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12-02-2007, 04:03 PM
Re: Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

the bloody bastard took more than a month to fix it....
i thought he'd have it done by the time i returned from a seminar i had to attend,
i didn't have the time to trace out the problem myself, that's why i gave it elsewhere to be fixed.

p.s.

although i have a bachelor's degree on elec. engineering, i'm not that confident
on working on tv's and such (lack of experience), i mostly focus on the IT sector as a freelance comp./network tech.

however, since i was...

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Elusive_Cure replied to Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

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12-02-2007, 03:37 PM
Re: Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

thanx for the quick response fellas.....

will order the parts tomorrow and see what happens.

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Elusive_Cure replied to Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

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12-02-2007, 11:26 AM
Re: Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

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Elusive_Cure replied to warning!xcelite flush cutters!

in Equipment Usage, Soldering, Techniques, and Reviews

12-01-2007, 08:06 PM
Re: warning!xcelite flush cutters!

.....i'm just using a plain old fingernail clipper....works fine, snips right where i want to....

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Elusive_Cure started a topic Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

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12-01-2007, 04:39 PM
Panasonic TV, vertical osc. issue

Hey guyz. i need some advice here

I have a panasonic TX25 MD3P tv (euro spec) that after 10 or so years of operation it stopped displaying picture but had sound.

I took it to the local repair shop where the technician changed the vertical oscilation IC (LA7845N) and gave it back to me.

After a couple of days (literally a couple) it gave up again.

I haven't tried to repair it myself, but I'm sure I'd do a better job than him (now that i have the schematics on hand).

Can someone experienced give me some advice on what...

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Elusive_Cure replied to Just resurrected a Gigabyte Advance 10T

in Troubleshooting Desktop Motherboards, Graphics Cards, and PC Peripherals

12-01-2007, 07:37 AM
Re: Just resurrected a Gigabyte Advance 10T

[B]Update :[/B]

The board is a QDI Advance 10B, not a Gigabyte one, and here are some pics from the process…

The Donor board is a Soyo Sy-6BA slot 1 with 4 IDE and 4 Mem slots, a true wonder of it's time.

the red squared 1000 and 1500 μF Licon caps were bulged

The whole deal took me an hour, i was tired but curious for the outcome. I took out the caps from the soyo board re-practicing my soldering...

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Elusive_Cure started a topic Just resurrected a Gigabyte Advance 10T

in Troubleshooting Desktop Motherboards, Graphics Cards, and PC Peripherals

11-30-2007, 03:17 PM
Just resurrected a Gigabyte Advance 10T

Thanx to your advice here i managed to resurrect a board (Gigabyte Advance 10T-socket 370) i bought in a flea market for one euro. Had three RAM caps fried and a couple more near the PSU socket, replaced them with my good old cheapo solder iron and it works fine. I had some spare p3/celeron chips lying around but no board for them, now i have another guinea pig for my network.....I'll post some photos soon, and will present a HOW-To on my tech blog, as soon as i find time to put the story together...

Cheers guyz...

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