ninn
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Hi!
My candy got monitor-problems. I'd like to fix them.
As far as I know, it is the stock monitor for a new astro city, the Nanao MS9. I will verify that again, when I am back at home.
The problem is pretty easy to discribe, but I was not able to fix it till now. I am still thinking it is a connection problem, somewhere.
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symptoms:
When I first saw the problem, I looked a lot like just a slight flickering in brightness. I talked to the previous owner about it, and he said that a connection may became loose at the transport before - and then the picture disappeared completely. He then slapped the candy on it's right side. To my surprise, that highly sophisticated technique worked and the picture came back.
At home, I tried locating the monitor cables and reconnect those and the plugs and the remote board - and that seemed to fix the problem (for at least one night).
The day after, yesterday, the problem started to happen again. Since I already fiddled with the remote board settings - especially brightnes and contrast - I found out that the picture would not completely black out, but instead it 'just' looses about 50% in brightness when the problem occours. It is possible to compensate this effect with turning up the brightness - but when the problem vanishes, the picture will become far to bright. It looks a lot like someone turned on a light bulb on the monitor's inside.
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I still don't think it is a serious problem, more of a loose connection type problem.
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I already tried to find a solution in that forums, and this is the best match so far - sound like a very similar problem: http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10590&p=137545
This has been posted on arcadeotaku too: http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21606
Got any ideas? Can ou help me locating where I may look for loose connections? replace caps?
Thanks in advance,
ninn
My candy got monitor-problems. I'd like to fix them.
As far as I know, it is the stock monitor for a new astro city, the Nanao MS9. I will verify that again, when I am back at home.
The problem is pretty easy to discribe, but I was not able to fix it till now. I am still thinking it is a connection problem, somewhere.
----
symptoms:
When I first saw the problem, I looked a lot like just a slight flickering in brightness. I talked to the previous owner about it, and he said that a connection may became loose at the transport before - and then the picture disappeared completely. He then slapped the candy on it's right side. To my surprise, that highly sophisticated technique worked and the picture came back.
At home, I tried locating the monitor cables and reconnect those and the plugs and the remote board - and that seemed to fix the problem (for at least one night).
The day after, yesterday, the problem started to happen again. Since I already fiddled with the remote board settings - especially brightnes and contrast - I found out that the picture would not completely black out, but instead it 'just' looses about 50% in brightness when the problem occours. It is possible to compensate this effect with turning up the brightness - but when the problem vanishes, the picture will become far to bright. It looks a lot like someone turned on a light bulb on the monitor's inside.
----
I still don't think it is a serious problem, more of a loose connection type problem.
----
I already tried to find a solution in that forums, and this is the best match so far - sound like a very similar problem: http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10590&p=137545
This has been posted on arcadeotaku too: http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21606
Got any ideas? Can ou help me locating where I may look for loose connections? replace caps?
Thanks in advance,
ninn