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Ok folks,
We are making some progress here. The SBC will get a new Video Chip and we investigated this a little bit more.
As to cause of this:
The CIM has 3 Heat elements attached to LCD to be able to operate in climate below 0C / 32F
The 3 elements are controlled by a control circuit which...
Update:
The silicone arrived yesterday from you know where, but they didn’t pack the new IC into Anti Static bag…….
So, I opened a case…..
Will keep you posted
I am getting tired of this…..
Even the smallest, most logical thing seems to be a huge uphill battle.
I am glad that my company...
A general note as to the Video Chip.
CHIPS is a subsidiary of Intel Corporation and this particular video chip is a HiQVideo Accelerator, which was introduced in the mid to late nineties.
This particular device here was manufactured in week 20 of 2004 (May 10th to 26th).
So, it lastet 18 years...
Ok, all capacitors passed the first test, and Transistors, Diodes and Caps on bottom layer passed first test.
but the Video Chip does not put out HSYNC / VSYNC or any signal on the two LCD idc’s
When board is powered up and nothing is connected, Video Chip gets warm (it shouldn’t)
we are...
Back to our favorite problem child.
We got a CIM of a 806B, where the LCD would stop displaying anything right when the Boot / BIOS part ended and then after a while would not display anything at all anymore.
after initial inspection, we were able to turn LCD backlight on and off.
Then we...
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