*Update After Cleaning the pins of the J204 connector the screen emits a glow after turning the brightness up all the way and the tube on the back of the crt has a glow which did not happen before as seen in pictures.

*Edit Here are some photos of the power board. As far as I can tell none of the capacitors look damaged. I also took a picture of the board on the tube itself, not sure what that is called. Sorry for the weird angles but its the best I can do without removing the board.

I have a vectrex with game and sound both working but zero picture, no dot in the middle of the screen or anything. The only thing I have done to repair the vectrex was replace a fuse which brought back game & sound function. I am not very tech savvy and this is out of my league, any help is appreciated.

⟐ Commented March 28, 2026 at 17:55 MST

The left eye shows a double vision of the game.

⟐ Answered January 26, 2026 at 18:37 MST

⟐ Answer edited January 10, 2026 at 2:04 MST

⟐ Answered December 18, 2025 at 16:41 MST

⟐ Answered December 10, 2025 at 19:34 MST

⟐ Answer accepted November 20, 2025 at 10:27 MST

⟐ Commented August 22, 2025 at 8:14 MST

I tried cleaning the connection port of the Intellivision with a small wire brush and the I side of the port with some light sandpaper. No change.

Help?

⟐ Answered August 22, 2025 at 8:11 MST

⟐ Answered July 21, 2025 at 23:48 MST

⟐ Commented February 01, 2025 at 6:41 MST

I’ve recently started a refurbishment on an Atari Lynx Gen 1, before I powered it on for the first time in my ownership, I replaced the Q11 power MOSFET, The ZD1 Zener Diode, and all the capacitors on the board in order to give it the best chance of working because i know the lynx has a tendency to nuke itself if powered on with bad power components.

After replacing all these parts and trying to power the console on, i get greeted with a black screen, reinserting the cartridge and powercycling the console a random amount of times will finally get the console to play, however, after about 8 minutes I notice that the screens contrast/brightness has adjusted itself without prompting from the wheel, the brightness will adjust via the wheel, but eventually it fades to where the wheel doesn’t do anything, then the game crashes and the console powers off without obvious cause.

This whole process takes about 15 minutes before it powers off on its own. The console wont turn back on unless the batteries are removed and reinserted. Then the cycle repeats itself with the black screen, having to power cycle and mess with the cartridge in order to get it to run again.

The game works fine in my Lynx II and this issue happens in the Lynx I regardless of the game I have inserted.

Im honestly at a loss here and would appreciate any advice or suggestions anyone could provide.

More information if it helps, after more testing ive found that this issue only happens on battery power.

Ive also found that removing the cartridge while the console is on does not shut the console off like it should. The screen just goes black. Power is run through the cartridge so when the cartridge is removed the entire console should power off.

Super confusing

⟐ Answered November 30, 2024 at 19:12 MST

⟐ Answered November 29, 2024 at 15:21 MST

I have som pictures if needed

⟐ Commented October 30, 2024 at 8:39 MST

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⟐ Commented April 14, 2024 at 8:52 MST

⟐ Answer accepted February 19, 2024 at 9:00 MST

⟐ Commented February 01, 2024 at 14:39 MST

⟐ Commented November 25, 2023 at 18:58 MST