Somewhat related....do you think either of these would solve garbled speech? (MNF). I can hear it but it's garbled.
Quoted from snyper2099:I've repaired a few of them... I would suggest that either one of the 3 sound amps is shorted or a electryolytic capacitor is shorted.
If you can replace the electrolytic caps on the board, that may get it going again. It's fairly easy. The amps are much more difficult to repplace but they typically do not short out the 5 V rail.