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I recently pickup a VA5 Sega Game Gear with nearly a flawless screen image. I played the first two Sonic games and loved it. I went to install a cap kit for future installation of game gear mods that are out there.

It still booting up because there is sound but the video quality was lost. I heated up the lcd connector bars then I lost all of the image only showing bright white screen : (

I doubled checked my work but everything was installed correctly however its playing blindly now. I did a continuity test and I have three components that indicate continuity, a beeeeep sound from meter, I don't know if that is good or bad. I wanted to ask if someone knows about those components if they are to have any continuity or not.

Those LCD connector bars are chip on glass. If you heated that up and it died, then the screen is completely dead. There is no saving it. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Heating those up is never a good idea if the unit was working before you started working on it. Should only ever screw with that if you have lines of pixels missing, and the screen is already dead. Even if some missing lines come back at first, they'll eventually fade out again regardless. =(

The best thing to do with it now is remove the screen and either install a game gear TV board, and a new screen or use it for a consolized Game Gear TV system.

Unfortunately your screen is now dead. Check out (google) the McWill and GGLCD lcd-replacements for the GameGear, they are amazing quality and once fitted - you will be glad that things happened the way they did. :)

best regards,
- dink

Thanks, I'll just get a GG TV board for now and use as a test bed to check if any video signal is obtainable on this GG and others that I might pickup later on.

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Sega Shammy Joined: 11 Nov 2016 Posts: 2	Tech - Game Gear question Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:24 pm
Sega Shammy Joined: 11 Nov 2016 Posts: 2	I recently pickup a VA5 Sega Game Gear with nearly a flawless screen image. I played the first two Sonic games and loved it. I went to install a cap kit for future installation of game gear mods that are out there. It still booting up because there is sound but the video quality was lost. I heated up the lcd connector bars then I lost all of the image only showing bright white screen : ( I doubled checked my work but everything was installed correctly however its playing blindly now. I did a continuity test and I have three components that indicate continuity, a beeeeep sound from meter, I don't know if that is good or bad. I wanted to ask if someone knows about those components if they are to have any continuity or not.

YoshiKnuckles Joined: 05 Nov 2016 Posts: 7	Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:52 pm
YoshiKnuckles Joined: 05 Nov 2016 Posts: 7	Those LCD connector bars are chip on glass. If you heated that up and it died, then the screen is completely dead. There is no saving it. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Heating those up is never a good idea if the unit was working before you started working on it. Should only ever screw with that if you have lines of pixels missing, and the screen is already dead. Even if some missing lines come back at first, they'll eventually fade out again regardless. =( The best thing to do with it now is remove the screen and either install a game gear TV board, and a new screen or use it for a consolized Game Gear TV system.

dink Joined: 09 Dec 2013 Posts: 228 Location: detroit	Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 1:29 am
dink Joined: 09 Dec 2013 Posts: 228 Location: detroit	Unfortunately your screen is now dead. Check out (google) the McWill and GGLCD lcd-replacements for the GameGear, they are amazing quality and once fitted - you will be glad that things happened the way they did. :) best regards, - dink

Sega Shammy Joined: 11 Nov 2016 Posts: 2	Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 1:33 pm
Sega Shammy Joined: 11 Nov 2016 Posts: 2	Thanks, I'll just get a GG TV board for now and use as a test bed to check if any video signal is obtainable on this GG and others that I might pickup later on.

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