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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.

Sounds like somethings shorting internally then. Have you stripped it down to just the raw GC board + powerboard and turned it on?

SS

ShockSlayer wrote:Sounds like somethings shorting internally then. Have you stripped it down to just the raw GC board + powerboard and turned it on?

Yes - with just the power board and main GC board the power lines still shut down after a fraction of a second.

Is there any way to force the power board to stay on so I can try to locate the shorted component by temperature?

Unseen wrote:

ShockSlayer wrote:Sounds like somethings shorting internally then. Have you stripped it down to just the raw GC board + powerboard and turned it on?

Yes - with just the power board and main GC board the power lines still shut down after a fraction of a second.

Is there any way to force the power board to stay on so I can try to locate the shorted component by temperature?

Sounds like a bad idea.

you could try to remove the AVE to see if the LED will at least stay on....then go from there

megalomaniac wrote:you could try to remove the AVE to see if the LED will at least stay on....then go from there

Good idea, doesn't change the symptoms though. I guess I'll just write it off as dead for now.