Turbo Express no longer boots up, backlight has power but no sound, no boot HELP

[ColterF]

Hey Everyone,

       I'm new here, I just moved and opened up some old boxes and low and behold my turbo express. I'm going to play this thing I thought. It had sat in a box with batteries removed for about 9 months- 1 year. When I tried to boot it up there was nothing, it has power, the screen "turns on" you can see the backlight turning on. But no boot up, no sound so I imagine the games aren't booting at all.

       I looked around here and saw a few posts about dead screens, or dead circuits that power the screen but I'm not even hearing the game start, do I have a dead system, dead screen, is it that single dead circuit at the top of the board I've been reading about? I would love to get this thing back up and running again. I'm in Southern California, does anyone know any places or people of a reputable nature that could/ would/ will repair it? I'm very hesitant about just sending it to an address out of state without a good recommendation or experience.


 Any information would be greatly appreciated.

[Platinumfungi]

Hey Colter, welcome to PCFX 

If your Express backlight is working (the screen turns white when you power it on) but you have no audio and video, then it sounds like faulty capacitors.

It's a pretty common problem and, as you mentioned, is documented here in the forums.

There could be someone much closer then myself, but I can repair it if you'd like. I'm in MA. Here's a link to find out some more about my reputation/some of the work I do: http://gametz.com/user/platinumfungi.html

[Duo_R]

red ghost does good work from what i have seen. i am in Norcal if u wanted to save on shipping. drop me a pm.