TK_Monkey
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Of course with the sense of humor these things have when I fired up my Millipede w/ the Braze kit installed to show it to a friend who was in town for the holiday I have monitor problems. Pictures attached, the screen is mostly static with the occasional jump, horizontal and vertical hold adjustment don't remedy the issue. I went to double check and it looks like I've got a vertical chassis 4600 in this machine and after some digging it seems like reflowing the solder on the pins of the daughter cards is a good path to clearing up a lot of issues on these. The solder on the pins of the connectors look okay, but there's next to no solder on one of the legs of the v hold pot so I want to pull both cards and play solder doctor to see if it will correct the issue.
The avoiding a terminal error comes in the process behind that. I know if I'm needing to disconnect everything to pull the whole chassis I need to discharge the tube to avoid getting a buttload of voltage through me, my question is can I disconnect the connectors going to the daughter card and pull those cards w/o having to discharge the tube or will doing that eat me or the components? I've never had to do work on a monitor before so I figure best to double check before doing things, though it seems like I wouldn't have an issue doing that.
FWIW the game plays just fine and I can see the pixels moving when I start up a game.
The avoiding a terminal error comes in the process behind that. I know if I'm needing to disconnect everything to pull the whole chassis I need to discharge the tube to avoid getting a buttload of voltage through me, my question is can I disconnect the connectors going to the daughter card and pull those cards w/o having to discharge the tube or will doing that eat me or the components? I've never had to do work on a monitor before so I figure best to double check before doing things, though it seems like I wouldn't have an issue doing that.
FWIW the game plays just fine and I can see the pixels moving when I start up a game.
