Electronics Forum / Repair / April 2007

I have an LG Plasma TV and for the past four months I have had a
problem with colored "snow" flickering over the picture on my TV.
Here are a couple pictures I managed to take of the problem:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/9947/dscf1273rs7.jpg

Found this today :
http://www.lcdvsplasma.co.uk/
Loads of info on LCD and Plasma and whats best for you.

I WANT TO BUY MY NEW LAPTOP ANYBODY TELL ME BEST ONE I DON"T HAVE ANY
KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTERS

Anyone know why those teeny tiny silver oxide battery prices are off the
charts? Retail stores - including Radio Schlock - now want between $3.99
and $4.39 *each* and only a couple years ago they were half that price.
It doesn't make a lot of sense that you can buy a toy for your ...

I have this nice little 115v 60HZ motor which is rated 1/75th hp
1800rpm. It has two part numbers. They are:  PN 315-7239-PI or
possibly the correct one is: M10R0000X09.  It has  4 leads: black red
white and blue. It requires a 3uf capacitor. The manufacturer is

New to this group, just going to include a quote from my sister who
wanted me to post it on usenet:
 "... could you see if anybody else with a Toshiba CF27D50 has the same
problem ...  it runs for a while and then the sound goes off ... 

This is a 6  yo laptop that was working fine.  I replaced the
glidepad/button panel and now it won't turn on. Very strange because
replacement of the glidepad/button panel entailed removing and then
reinserting the thin mylar circuit strip into the new panel.  I have

my dog bit through my headset cable (Trust Multi Function Headset 310) which
I now try to fix.
The headset cable consists of three cables (correct term??) each of them
consisting of two leads which seem not to be isolated against each other (I

I'm trying to fix a Compaq Presario SR1365CL. The owner worked on it and
somehow decided that the hard drive was at fault. I'm not sure what else was
tried in order to "fix" it. Currently, PC will not boot Windows XP Home, but
BIOS can be entered and changed and it does recognize ...

Does any of you have a user manual or service manual for a pro mixer,
Pioneer DJM600?
I would very greatful, if you had one or both of the these in PDF
maybe?

I just installed a 486 board that someone gave me to replace a failed
386 into an old machine. There are programs on this machine that we
still use. The 486 board has Phoenix bios. Initially the setup option,
(F2) came up during post and allowed me to get into the bios to set

I jumped the bad fuse on this unit and smoke quickly came from this
component on the board.
It looks like a ceramic 1 inch shoebox. It has three leads and is
marked: A (trademark?) 3w  0.22 ohms  1  D  2.

I'm still having trouble with this Sony KP46WT500 projection. For some
reason or another I don't get any response with the adjustments on the
convergence, I get in the service mode with the remote and get to what I
want to adjust and no movemrnt.

My son's car is an Acura 2000 3.2TL. Recently, the SRS light came on.
Searching the web I noticed this was a common problem. Acura extended the
warranty on some of the components in the SRS to take care of this problem.
Initially, the local Acura dealer said the component, an SPORD ...

Can a celeron M processor be used in a motherboard that currently takes an
intel M processor.  Basically, can the tow processor be interchanged?  (I
realize the performance is not teh same, etc...)
Any imput would be appreciated.