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#133415 - 06/01/2003 20:03 Another Display wierdness.
lectric
pooh-bah

Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
OK... In the morning for the past month or so, When I power up in my car, the dimness is displaying at around 60-70%. When I go to display settings, it says dimmer at 100%, I roll it down to 90%, nothing - 80%, sometimes it changes, some times not - 70%, nothing, then roll it back up to 100%, and it really IS at 100%. Seemingly all day. For the record, my car is wired such that it completely killes the player when I crank the engine. As in, all voltage drops everywhere except the starter. Am I alone in this? It's not of critical importance, as I'm pretty good by now at resetting the brightness w/o even looking at the screen. Anyway...


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#133416 - 06/01/2003 21:19 Re: Another Display wierdness. [Re: lectric]
matthew_k
pooh-bah

Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California

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#133417 - 06/01/2003 23:09 Re: Another Display wierdness. [Re: matthew_k]
Daria
carpal tunnel

Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
Yup. <A HREF="http://empeg.comms.net/php/showprofile.php?Cat=&User=rmitz">rmitz</A> has the same problem; He pointed it out when I was in his car yesterday.

Of course since I have his spare to send back to carsupport I guess he's not going to worry about it just yet

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#133418 - 07/01/2003 07:06 Re: Another Display wierdness. [Re: matthew_k]
lectric
pooh-bah

Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
Damn... Was hoping it was something else, as the player has been working fine for a year or so before exhibiting this behavior. Ordering Cap now.

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#133419 - 07/01/2003 11:40 Re: Another Display wierdness. [Re: lectric]
matthew_k
pooh-bah

Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 2298
Loc: Berkeley, California
The weather has probably gotten colder in the past month, which sets off the capacitor I believe. I had a wierd dimmer problem that was fixed with reflashing the kernel, but I still can't explain that one...

Matthew

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#133420 - 07/01/2003 13:30 Re: Another Display wierdness. [Re: lectric]
lectric
pooh-bah

Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
Would a 103M Disc Cap do the trick? (kinda hard to find SMT around here)

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#133421 - 08/01/2003 06:14 Re: Another Display wierdness. [Re: lectric]
rtundo
addict

Registered: 27/02/2001
Posts: 569
Loc: Albany, NY
My screen consistently dims incorrectly when the unit gets left in the cold. When warm I have never experienced a problem. The problem is always fixed by pulling the unit out and putting back in. Annoying but it works while adjusting the dimmer settings doesn't always do it.

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#133422 - 08/01/2003 08:06 Re: Another Display wierdness. [Re: lectric]
StigOE
addict

Registered: 27/10/2002
Posts: 568
Ought to do it, as long as the value is correct and you have the space for it.

Stig

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#133423 - 08/01/2003 15:11 Re: Another Display wierdness. [Re: StigOE]
lectric
pooh-bah

Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
Did it, done, fixed, thanks all!

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