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    Default Neo Geo AES csync low? (RESOLVED/FIXED)

    I have one of the early iterations of the Neo Geo AES that on bootup only shows a black screen and was previously mute.

    Bit of a long shot but does anyone around here know if pin 126 of the LSPC-A0 chip should be showing 5 ohms of resistance to ground? On replacing the CXA1145 video encoder chip, I can now get sound but still no video, and I measured csync input at 0.4 volts which seems kind of low for what pin 10 of the CXA1145 is expecting.
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    I dont have any experience with a AES but in general it sounds like you have a short some where...
    I get the feeling you already know that though.

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    It looks like the LSPC-A0 is faulty, but I have no other system on hand to reference. Worst case scenario is rob the part from an early MVS unit.

    I'd also like to know if the RGB channels before they go into the CXA1145 (pins 2, 3 and 4) are supposed to be 0.7vpp or if they should be stronger. Curiously this replacement chip isn't outputting the RGB on the other side (just like the original, which was confirmed faulty) and the specsheet insinuates it's just a passthrough, so I have more CXA chips on the way.

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    I hope this information may be helpful to others in the future which is why I'm posting a followup. I was able to source a battery corroded MV1 board and determined that csync is normally 5 M ohms to ground pin on the LSPC-A0, and should NOT be 5 ohms as it was on the faulty AES. So I performed a transplant:





    The Neo Geo AES now works as it should. So my suspicion is someone plugged or unplugged a video cable into the system while it or the display was on, or there was a power surge- bridging the audio output and csync input of the CXA encoder. Which bled into the LSCP-A0 chip's csync output pin and eventually shorted it to ground.

    Video of the now fixed system in action:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leMB9AX9v-Q&

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    Nice work!

    You got any ideas where I need to start with this one I've got on my bench of ToDo stuff? It is an older one that used the +5 3amp PSU with it. Client didn't think they one they had was working and tried to power it up using an SMS power supply...so... it had a full +9 - +13+ unregulated voltage applied to it near as I can tell. Nothing seems burnt out visually on the board itself, but the original PSU does smell cooked and isn't providing any power so that is at least confirmed to be dead. I was able to put a +5 1amp adapter to it and now all I get with it is the following in the brief video:

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YD...MLql9OoO2yPl0g

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    Check to see what's getting excessively hot while it's powered and running, fingertip touch to the tops of chips if you don't have an IR thermometer, be careful not to short anything.

    Also check to see if everything is getting five volts that should be getting it, the bios chip pin 1, the DIP package 68000 CPU pins 14 & 49, etc.

    Somes guesses are: a circuit trace has burned open from overvoltage, one of the processors (68000) could be damaged without tripping the watchdog reset/click of death, or the power rail has something wrong with it, check Q1 transistor, Q2, Q3, Q4, etc.

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