Had a little slack time at work today. Decided to tackle the gouges taken out of the board and patch them up.

Got a couple of the easier ones by bridging the gap with solder. The others were too wide. Andy is far better at this than I am (much more experience) and he had this wire that’s about as thick as a cat whisker. He deftly put the traces right, and even soldered back together a tant cap that had been pulled apart.

While he did that, I attacked the video wiring harness that had been butchered, and did some last minute patching of the board harness. The video harness was in *really* bad shape. People, when you convert something, there’s no need to cut wires right at the connector, lengthy wire is your friend!

Andy finished, and the video harness was done a few minutes later. Brought it over to the cabinet. Unplugged power from the main board, so we could warm up the monitor. That was if bad things happened (other than releasing magic blue smoke) we could see it and turn it off quickly.

After letting it warm, plugged the power into the main board and…hm…what’s this? White garbled graphics. Ah, nutz. Futz with it a bit more. No change. Crap.

What to do, what to do. What’s that, Andy? DIP switches? I dunno, worth a look-see.

Open the manual…hm…hey, switch 10…’FREEZE’ WTF does that do? Andy, is that one on? It is? Dammit son, flip it, flip it!

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Oh, crap, it works! Sweet Abraham Lincoln’s beard!

Smack the credit button a few times…yep, it’s playing! Oh…hm…playing mute. Sounds Good board blinks six times…means that’s good…but we have an MCR/2 amp, betcha it’s bad. Time for more research.