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Tiviar Alpha Plus - Dead after powered off for a week

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    #32
    Dutch Roll
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Dutch Roll


    Ok great thanks. I gather the brown sludge at the base of the capacitors is actually glue or something and not the capacitors leaking all over resistors and other nearby components?

    Would you recommend I replace all the caps and not just the big one?



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    #33
    NewClareman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭NewClareman


    Yeah, just glue.

    Ideally you would replace all of them.



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    #34
    a clanger
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭a clanger


    IMG_20200828_170859.jpg

    In fairness replacing the PSU with a laptop power supply was very easy, just a pliers and a few connectors required. Took about 20min and €25



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    #35
    Dutch Roll
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Dutch Roll


    Lovely. I think that's what'll I'll do. Pretty straightforward I'd imagine. Thanks.



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    #36
    Dutch Roll
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Dutch Roll


    Any ideas lads? I think I've bricked it.


    IMG_20211223_203928.jpg




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    #37
    Dutch Roll
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Dutch Roll


    I fit the laptop power supply, got this on the display. Then put back in the original PSU and still getting this on the display.

    Reckon it's a gonner 😢



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    #38
    NewClareman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭NewClareman


    I suspect that some chip is blown. Hard to know what has gone wrong. Is there any chance you put in the laptop PSU the wrong way around?



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    #39
    Dutch Roll
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Dutch Roll


    99% sure it was the correct polarity, I was very careful. Nothing popped, no visual evidence of something going wrong. But I must have fried something.

    I'm no worse off than I was last week but it's a shame as the box is just over 3 years old.



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    #40
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    Reviving an old thread here

    My brother's Tivia Alpha has died ( won't power on) Mine shuts down randomly..I get it going by switching off and on via the rocker.

    Is it an easy fix to put a laptop power supply into these?

    There was a little link to thread about the faulty PSU problem and what you need to do to switch to laptop power supply.

    Can anyone help with info ?



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