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Fixing a Acumos AVGA2

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First post, by Mut

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I'm trying to fix a partially working acumos AVGA2 VGA that one of the transistors was removed.

Someone would have equal VGA could tell me which used transistors ?

Reply 1 of 7, by Jepael

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Which one you are missing?

The D1 which is a diode, or Q1, which might be a transistor, but I suspect it is a LM334 reference current generator instead.

Reply 2 of 7, by adalbert

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My revision is a bit different unfortunately, but this is what it looks like. There is a chance that D1 and Q1 will be the same part.

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Reply 3 of 7, by Mut

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Probably D1 and Q1 are the same.

Thank you for the picture !

Reply 4 of 7, by Jepael

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D1 is the "adjustable zener diode" TL431, more specifically, TL431CZ version of it in TO-92 package, by some manufacturer unknown to me (the stylized S letter). Because I don't know the manufacturer, it is quite impossible to know the tolerance of the part, whether it is 2%, 1% or 0.5%.

Q1 is bog-standard 2N3904 NPN transistor in TO-92 package.

Reply 5 of 7, by SquallStrife

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Jepael wrote:

some manufacturer unknown to me (the stylized S letter)

90% sure it's Signetics. It's not /quite/ the same as my Signetics parts though, so could be wrong.

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Reply 6 of 7, by Mut

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I found the same S431 diode on a crappy HMC ISA VGA.

But the acumos still not working.

It starts but sundenly the screen goes black with the message "out of sync", even in the bios.

Reply 7 of 7, by Jepael

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If you are connecting it to VGA port of modern TFT monitor, please make sure (read the manual) that it supports 70Hz formats, because many modern TFTs don't.