Meh, I'll just leave it on. I would hate moving the 200 pounds, disconnecting the eight rear inputs and risk a solder job that may not even work. The cable box keeps the tube at a very dim at night black screen. During the day you can't tell its on until the cable box or a game console is fired up. If the HD will never turned on again say from a power fail then I'll go the desolder and solder new chip route.AppleQueso wrote:those pins are unsoldered because they don't actually connect to anything. There's nothing to worry about with those.
I think one other pin on one of the two IC's doesn't actually make a connection either. I think it's pin 18 on one of them. That one IS soldered for whatever reason, but either way it doesn't really matter too much, kind of irrelevant info really.
It's not as hard as it looks to replace them. Too bad in my case it turned out that those IC's weren't my problem. (Pretty sure my problem was/is actually the flyback transformer. It'd cost way too much to replace that).
Make sure when you remove them, you do a good job desoldering them. Your only real worries replacing them should be accidentally damaging the PCB traces, which are quite fixable if you're in a pinch anyhow.
Wegas seem to have this power supply problem. Though uncommon, I found multiple sites pointing to the chips. If you get the flashing six or seven light, it could be the ICs. Unplug for a few hours and then try the hair dryer trick.
The chips are under twenty bucks shipped, I should pick them up as a backup plan along with a couple sockets.
