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Duo music/cd volume

Started by 8bitplus, 06/11/2017, 02:13 PM

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8bitplus

Hello. I'm trying to fix a black PC engine duo. The sound is working correctly for the HU card games, but very faint for the CD background music.

I have done a complete re-cap, and initially everything worked. Then the next day NO SOUND at all.
After days of poking around I fixed a couple of traces and replaced the 2 op-amps under the board, and the one at the AV jack.

I reassembled and found the CD volume is very low on both the AV and headphone jack.

Can someone tell me which caps and amps are for the CD drive?
Thanks
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8bitplus

After more reading it sounds like the problem may be related to the M51131L. I have a second fully working Duo and its getting 5v to pin 8 of the M51131L when playing CD music, but this Duo is getting less than 1v.
I'll take the board out of the case again and inspect that area closely...
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8bitplus

Fixed.
Turned out the OP-Amp at IC521 wasn't getting correct voltage. I linked it to a 5v line on pin3 and the cd music is nice and high again.
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