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A project log for Forth and back again: Repairing a cheap LED-TV

This project is a collection of my experiences in repairing a TV from a hackers perspective. A 40" with no obvious HW problem is not waste!

benjaminaignerbenjaminaigner 10/02/2020 at 18:560 Comments

I did this procedure once with a graphics card (Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition), which had the strange error of supporting only EFI/BIOS resolution, even the boot screens of Windows/Linux crashed the GPU.

It works until now without any problems (~6 months of heavy Corona-caused gaming usage).

I do not have a clear procedure for doing that, but it takes roughly these steps:

I had to do it twice for my TV's board, because on the first try, the remains of the antenna connectors were too high, so the plastic cover pressed down the PCB again.

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