Electronics Forum / Repair / October 2004

Hi everyone :)
I need to replace a capacitor that decided to blow up on an extremely
old XT 8088 motherboard. This capacitor looks like a tantalum
capacitor and has the following markings on it: 106 16. As far as I

If anybody has any old Western Electric Nassau solder laying around, I
would like to buy some.
Please email me at tomg(AT)fullnet.com.
Thanks.

Hello, just posting a solution to a monitor problem.
Symptoms: No picture and power/standby light seems to operate nomally.
Problem: Surface mount capacitor connected to pin 8 of U702(LM2437T) on
Daughter board has shorted out.

Set has perfect picture and sound, It has 3 color areas. On the left
third of the screen it is green, in the middle it is sort of blueish and
on  the third area of the sceen it is sort of a magenta color,
degaussing has no effect on removing this coloration.

Howdy folks,
  My name is Dustin and I found this group via Google.  Today I found
a TV on the side of the road, which is broken and I would like to
repair.  It's a nice TV, 27"  six years old.  The problem is that when

I've a 15" TFT Lite-On GC150ATA. I've replaced the TFT-panel and need
to adjust the colors/contrast for the new panel.
The monitor has an internal connector P303, for serial control to the
MTV312M64 processor.

I get interference on the coax connections and the rca connections.
S-video does not seem to be affected.  I've noticed that the left
speaker cuts out as well.  Does anyone know if there are known
soldered components or places that go bad?  Any assistance would be

I have a Modine gas Heater in my garage on a dedicated 110v/15A
circuit. (USA 60 Hz)
When the Thermostat is off, I can here a distinct hum from the main
power transformer in the unit. (110v to 24v Step down).

This is a question that may offend the reader because it is so
incredibly basic, but my deep ignorance and fear of setting off a fire
compels me to make this inquiry. The floor dimmer box on my halogen
torchiere died. I noticed that I could probably just cut the power chord

I am getting the error message "missing or corrupt himen.sys file, error in
config.sys on line 1" when I boot the computer. Under these lines the
following is contained    C:\REM LH C:\ CDROM\MSDEX  \D:MSCD000 and also
this line   C:\REM-BY WINDOWS SETUP- LH C:\CDROM\MSDEX \D ...

Leaves
How do I recover a lost file in a computer?
The Problem
I have a Mercury TV Tuner Card installed in my PC. The programme was running

long story short, i have a ps2 and the lil grabber thingi that comes
up and spins the cd(know what i mean) spins, but it won't come up to
the cd. i've opened it up, and it spins, and it does what it's suppose
to, except the spinner doesn't elevate to get the cd. any help would

This Pioneer DV-05 dvd player has good audio but a very dark picture. Checking
signal out of the S-Video plug shows good luminance but no chroma. If you use
the composite video out plug, the picture is barely visible. There were some
intermittent connections to the video plugs but ...

I'm working on a JVC model # RX-507TVN stereo receiver.
There isn't any parts list for it on the JVC website.
I email technical assistance and was told to buy the service manual.
Can anyone supply the part number for C806/807.  These two caps

I have a computer monitor whose display is easily readable, but images are
way darker than normal.  The monitor is adjusted to 100% brightness.
Suggestions?  -Eric