Showing posts with label BS700. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BS700. Show all posts

Sunday, May 12, 2013

How to defeat the standby circuit in the Seleco BS700 tv chassis

Some time ago my 14" Seleco TV started to exhibit a problem:
exactly 5 minutes (and when I say exactly 5 minutes, I mean exactly 300 seconds) after startup, it turn back to standby (here is a post about that here).

I 've found this problems is related to the processor's NVRAM (C.I.1 - NVM3060) that lost its content.
I managed to reprogam it (using the ponyprog programmer I have written a post about), but the solution wasn't definitive. After a while the NVM3060 lost its content again and the problem raised as before...

So, to get around the problem,  I decided to try to defeat the standby circuitry. I've requested help on some repair forum with no success, so I dived a little in the bs700 diagram. I was not able to fully understand how that circuit works, however I was able to realize that grounding Pin 16 of the TV processor should have done the job. And it does! This is what T1 and T2 manage to do depending on the various ORed conditions required to exit the standby mode (press P+ OR press P- OR command from the remote OR ...) . T1 in particular keeps pin 16 down to ground through R14 while the TV set is running.
A side effect of this approach is that every 300 seconds the screen flashes black for less than a second. This is due to the processor still trying to turn the tv in standby as the default sleep time times out; it's a command internally executed by the processor I cannot do anything about.

So the modification more than trivial as ground jumper is very close to R14. Just have a look at the following pics to see how I've made the connection.

Good luck with your bs700!
Emanuele.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Seleco BS700.4 turns in standby after 5 minutes


My Seleco 14SE112 (BS700.4 chassis) started suffering a weird problem: it turned back in standby mode after exactly 300 seconds (5 min) since startup.
Observing the screen picture carefully I also noticed that colors were too shining, like the color setting was set to MAX.
While tuning brightness and contrast from the OSD menu worked fine,  color setting had no effect.
To make a long story short it was the processor EEPROM that lost its content.
It is an NVM3060 chip, a not so common EEPROM type.

Googling around I found the PonyProg project from Claudio Lanconelli (http://www.lancos.com/prog.html), an EEPROM programmer software. One of the suggested hardware interfaces, the SIProg interface, is able to manage this kind of memories. It is a funny interface built of  a "mother" board and many "daughter" boards, one for each memory and PICs families the programmer is able to deal with.
So I spent some night in building the motherboard and the NVM daughter board (I've slightly modded the motherboard to keep it as simple as needed - see my other post about ponyprog/SIprog implementation/modding).

I have been also able to find a ROM image for the bs700.4 on the Internet..
Loading the EEPROM with the new image fixed the problem.