breathing life into old chips

It's a Ferguson T7073SJD, using an ICC9 chassis. One website containing a faults database listed the failure of that chip giving the exact symptoms that I see (no sound when the set warms up and the remote operation goes unresponsive). I've pulled the main board and will re-solder all the joints in that area just to check; there's only one electrolytic as part of the circuitry surrounding that chip but I'll replace it with a known-good just in case. Tony's point about the crystal was interesting - I didn't think those things ever failed. I'll see if I've got a spare to try anyway. The set's awful inside - very cheaply made with little thought to cable runs, connectors, and how the various boards plug together. Guess they must have had different teams working on different sections and management for the overall project wasn't exactly what it should have been... (typical of more modern equipment unfortunately!) cheers Jules For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer