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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: PhoneGuy on June 05, 2003, 03:24:38 pm
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I recieved a new D9200 a few weeks ago. My cabninet is still under construction so not much time spent on the d9200. It went from a great picture to a dim nearly colorless picture (green/gray tint) after shutting it down and starting it back up a few hours later. The on screen menu looks fine, at least it's not dim. A Wells Gardner tech said it was probably IC101 and possibly IC103. Wells Gardner is sending out a replacement chassis.
Anyone else ran into this problem? Any difficulties swapping the chassis boards I should lookout for. I see there is a big hunk of putty holding the neckboard in place.
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This sounds almost exactly the same as what happened to mine after about 10 hours. Boy did I freak, I thought I was going to have to ship the entire thing back! (big $$$!)
Anyway, they thought it was the neck board. So I replaced that first. That required using a razor to cut the rubberish sealant holding it on at the tube neck. It slid right off and I tried the replacement one (my replacement electronics were not brand new, unfortunately). I never put another sealer to hold the new neck board on. I probably should, but I need to find out if some regular silicone chaulking is safe to use, or what exactly I should use.
That didn't fix it. So then I (nervously) discharged the tube. No spark or noise happened, so I assume the auto-discharge feature was working as it should. Then I swapped all the remaining boards. There was really nothing tricky to it. I didn't even remove it from my game cabinet (thankfully - I wasn't looking forward to doing that since the thing is so heavy!).
It worked! And has worked fine ever since.
This really sucked for me because I had just got my cabinet all together and working and then the freakin' monitor died! It was so anticlimactic!!
Wade
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The replacement chassis showed up yesterday. They were not new parts.
Since the replacement boards were already connected together I figured I should swap them all since maybe they are matched up. My tube also seemed to be dischagred. I swapped the boards without to much effort and the monitor seems ok. Hopefully I can get my cabinet finished before long so that I can give it to a real test.
Did you have to eat the return shipping costs of the old parts?
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I ate the return shipping but I didn't even try to get them to pay it. I was just happy that all I had to do was ship the old part back. Shipping for me was only about $10, I used Fedex Ground. I was happy to only be out $10!
Wade