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Hey everyone, I'm after a little help.

Recently picked up a game gear which powered up and showed backlight, but it had no picture, brightness wheel had no effect and no sound.

I picked up a cap kit and installed it and now I get sound, brightness wheel works and you can just about make out a ghost of an image on a severe angle with the brightness turned up all the way(game playing is chuck rock in photo).

Now I haven't the foggiest why its not working, I have checked and rechecked the polarity and rating of the caps and reflowed solder on all of them again after replacing.I would say its an LCD issue, but from experience they normally show a garbled picture?

The only thing I have not done is the caps on the power board since I was told they don't generally fail and if they do, the game gear won't work.

Any help gratefully accepted as I'm at a total lose end on where to go from here.

Thanks in advance

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Hey nachoman -

Did you have any luck with this over the past week? Many times the capacitors' electrolytic fluid will leak on your board and cause problems with your traces, cover other components, etc. When you removed the old capacitors, did you do some clean-up work, scrub the surrounding areas and do some multimeter tests for continuity?

It adds time to the work, that is certain. However, the elbow grease can help solve some of the unknowns down the line.

Just my two cents on this one. Good luck.

I'm having the same issue but intermittent now that I've used contact cleaner on the brightness control. It's a VA-5 board and I replaced all the capacitors. Typically if I power cycle a couple of times it works for a while but will randomly go out while playing. It can be seen at an extreme angle when this happens. Any ideas?

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nachoman Joined: 03 Dec 2016 Posts: 2	sega game gear repair help Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 3:26 pm
nachoman Joined: 03 Dec 2016 Posts: 2	Hey everyone, I'm after a little help. Recently picked up a game gear which powered up and showed backlight, but it had no picture, brightness wheel had no effect and no sound. I picked up a cap kit and installed it and now I get sound, brightness wheel works and you can just about make out a ghost of an image on a severe angle with the brightness turned up all the way(game playing is chuck rock in photo). Now I haven't the foggiest why its not working, I have checked and rechecked the polarity and rating of the caps and reflowed solder on all of them again after replacing.I would say its an LCD issue, but from experience they normally show a garbled picture? The only thing I have not done is the caps on the power board since I was told they don't generally fail and if they do, the game gear won't work. Any help gratefully accepted as I'm at a total lose end on where to go from here. Thanks in advance WP_20161203_14_52_00_Pro.jpg (1.58 MB)

ckrtech Joined: 09 Dec 2016 Posts: 1	Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 9:19 am
ckrtech Joined: 09 Dec 2016 Posts: 1	Hey nachoman - Did you have any luck with this over the past week? Many times the capacitors' electrolytic fluid will leak on your board and cause problems with your traces, cover other components, etc. When you removed the old capacitors, did you do some clean-up work, scrub the surrounding areas and do some multimeter tests for continuity? It adds time to the work, that is certain. However, the elbow grease can help solve some of the unknowns down the line. Just my two cents on this one. Good luck.

el_jeffe2 Joined: 14 Jan 2017 Posts: 1 Location: Austin, TX	Game Gear Repair Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:33 pm
	I'm having the same issue but intermittent now that I've used contact cleaner on the brightness control. It's a VA-5 board and I replaced all the capacitors. Typically if I power cycle a couple of times it works for a while but will randomly go out while playing. It can be seen at an extreme angle when this happens. Any ideas?

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