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Offline Tenacious

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Re: Has my A3000 died?
« on: May 04, 2008, 05:35:51 AM »
Oli_hd is right.  The 7407 (U352, an inverter) switches the ground side of the LED through a 56 ohm resister (R300).  The cathode is tied directly to a branch of the +5V rail.

Can you get your hands on a meter and check the power supply for +5V?  Check the little board with LEDs for +5V?  Check where the wires from that board ties to the MB?  Check this branch all the way to where it is supplied with +5V by the Power supply connector?  If you burned out a skinny +5V trace that supplies the LED and several chips, you will have to solder in a new wire to re-supply this branch with +5V.

It's sorta like heart bypass surgery.  Grin.

You didn't put the LED in backwards?
 

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Re: Has my A3000 died?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2008, 02:39:55 PM »
Let us know how this goes.  I think this is repairable.