[rescue] My Sparcstation Voyager is disfunctional

[Toby Thain]

On 2018-04-24 5:06 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Can you shine a flashlight on the screen and make out any text? If so then
> the screen is working fine but the inverter or the DC stage is bad. This
> means that if you can fix or replace the simple electronics that power the
> back light everything will work.

Yeah.. the flash sure is suspicious. Fixed many bad caps in LCD inverters.

--Toby

> 
> Cheers Patrick
> 
> On Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Michael Welle <ml01 at c0t0d0s0.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Michael Welle <ml01 at c0t0d0s0.de> writes:
>> [...]
>>> I haven't had time to look into it. But the hope is that a new battery
>>> will fix that, even if the symptoms seem to be a tad strange for a flat
>>> battery.
>> nope, I just changed the NVRAM and it did not fix it. It remembers its
>> MAC address now and boots fine, but without anything on the display.
>> Switching off the machine produces a short white flash on the display.
>>
>> Regards
>> hmw
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