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Elaine Benes
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: Did anyone every figure out how to fix NEC "scrambled m |
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I have looked at threads about this and was wondering if anyone had figured out how to repair the system boards from NEC's that exhibit the dreaded scrambled mess problem ?
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dbaisey
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No fix for these that we know of. My recovery % of one is pretty low. If no com can be made I cant do a thing. To be sure it requires the Osc board also. In some cases the D conv board depending on the exact model and version. For some reason once the earth ground to neutral (over) voltage gets to it its done for. Doug
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Elaine Benes
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I had an OSC board, swapping it in made no difference, I'll try the D-Conv board, see if that will pull it back...
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Elaine Benes
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Elaine Benes wrote: | | I had an OSC board, swapping it in made no difference, I'll try the D-Conv board, see if that will pull it back... |
No effect when the D-Conv board and OSC boards have been switched. . . . .
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dbaisey
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I meant to test as a board set. If the system board is bad.. its bad. Doug
At the projector receptical (unplugged) check earth ground to neutral voltage (large spade) then go around and start turning things on checking the meter. Esp dimmers unless its a designated circuit.
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Curt Palme
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I've spent a couple of hours one day comparing a working system board to a non syncing one. Changed a bunch of caps... nada!
I'm convinced though that it's NOT a chip problem. I'm sure it's repairable, it's just a matter of FINDING THE BAD PART.
(but then, isn't finding the bad part ALWAYS the cure? 
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Elaine Benes
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| dbaisey wrote: | I meant to test as a board set. If the system board is bad.. its bad. Doug
At the projector receptical (unplugged) check earth ground to neutral voltage (large spade) then go around and start turning things on checking the meter. Esp dimmers unless its a designated circuit. |
Don't worry, its not MY power that was bad, this was damaged before I got it. Unfortunately, you can't see if the "scrambled mess" is there if you can only turn it on to check for power up...
Curt: I hope to God you find the culprit someday, it is as annoying as hell. Especially when this one will synch up occasionally, and run just fine, but then it won't again...damn annoying...and I have every board from a scrapped XG EXCEPT the system board....
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dbaisey
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Same here many times. Also sent in to engineering and the response was 'no fix available' check line power before replacing Doug
Elaine if you replace it then it wont annoy you. At some point it got whacked so I doubt its going to just go away but I agree its annoying to work on also. You think you have it until the next mornings run out...
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Curt Palme
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Well I've got about 20 assorted system boards here from various NECs, so I'm in good shape. For bad parts..
What I need is the NEC extender boards (nudge nudge, wink, wink)
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dbaisey
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If anyone can mfg a duplicate set PM me.
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Curt Palme
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DAMN those are PRETTY!
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benareeno
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are there relays on the sytem board?? I had a rptv once that would only synch to 480i..1080i would cause a very similar scrambled mess and the fix had to do with the relays...seems similar enough.
Ben
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Tinman
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I have some ideas about this. Pretty good with this type of logic, and talked to Doug about it many times. But without and extender card, we'll never know.
Marc
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Brooklyn
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Switching out the deflection board on mine fixed the problem.
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Elaine Benes
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| Brooklyn wrote: | | Switching out the deflection board on mine fixed the problem. |
Deflection, eh ?
I think I've got one of those....
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Elaine Benes
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I swapped the Horizontal Deflection board, and a very, very slight change. It *seems* to lock to a computer at 1024x768 a little better now, but still no lock onto HD 1080i.
Also, I have tried several times to make a new signal entry, it just won't do it, when I pick a spot for the base info, whether I choose "Temporary", or a line, or default, the image disappears and never returns till it relocks onto the only entry in the list...
Makes me think its a memory location corruption issue...
Where is the memory located ? Can it be cleared and reloaded via computer or eeprom flash or something ??
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dbaisey
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What model do you have? Doug
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Mark_A_W
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It'll be a PG. Oscillation is on the Def board on a PG, there is no oscillator board.
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dbaisey
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| Elaine Benes wrote: | | Elaine Benes wrote: | | I had an OSC board, swapping it in made no difference, I'll try the D-Conv board, see if that will pull it back... |
No effect when the D-Conv board and OSC boards have been switched. . . . . |
Thats what Im confused about. Doug
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Elaine Benes
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XG1350.
I swapped out the OSC board, the D-Conv board, and then the H Def board, no real change. I was able to change the name of the single signal entry, and it has synched a couple times to 1024x768 60Hz, but that's it, all board changes made no effect, the scrambled mess is still prominently there...
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