Hi,
is there any repair advice for a PAL Cube that just flashes its power LED once when it is turned on and behaves as a brick-with-fan otherwise? I already found various references to the fuse on the power board on the net, but on this particular cube the fuse appears to be fine (24 milliohms) and swapping the power board with one from a working GC did not change the symptions.
Caused by slipping while measuring on the digital AV port - I may have shorted 3.3V or GND to one of the adjacent VData lines.
GC Power LED flashes once
GC Power LED flashes once
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ShockSlayer
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Re: GC Power LED flashes once
Sounds like somethings shorting internally then. Have you stripped it down to just the raw GC board + powerboard and turned it on?
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Re: GC Power LED flashes once
Yes - with just the power board and main GC board the power lines still shut down after a fraction of a second.ShockSlayer wrote:Sounds like somethings shorting internally then. Have you stripped it down to just the raw GC board + powerboard and turned it on?
Is there any way to force the power board to stay on so I can try to locate the shorted component by temperature?
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Re: GC Power LED flashes once
Sounds like a bad idea.Unseen wrote:Yes - with just the power board and main GC board the power lines still shut down after a fraction of a second.ShockSlayer wrote:Sounds like somethings shorting internally then. Have you stripped it down to just the raw GC board + powerboard and turned it on?
Is there any way to force the power board to stay on so I can try to locate the shorted component by temperature?
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Re: GC Power LED flashes once
you could try to remove the AVE to see if the LED will at least stay on....then go from there
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Re: GC Power LED flashes once
Good idea, doesn't change the symptoms though. I guess I'll just write it off as dead for now.megalomaniac wrote:you could try to remove the AVE to see if the LED will at least stay on....then go from there
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