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Re: Sega Nomad Repair Help [message #126624] Mon, 20 November 2006 19:02 Go to next message
BelPowerslave is currently offline  BelPowerslave
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> I have a serious problem with my sega nomad. Whenever I try to play,
> this huge (around a nickle size)
> orange dot is always visible.I've tried to get rid of it, and even
> tried to move it. Yet nothing works. I not sure how this happened, but
> i can't undo it! I've looked online and found that many other people
> have this problem. Still, only one solution was found. Going to some
> repair man who makes it as good as new. Yet the closest repair store is
> 365 miles away! And I need to get this fixed before christmas! Any
> ideas?

Holy shit, I've never heard of anything like that. Man, now this orange
dot, it actually impairs the view of the game, or it's just sort of
like screenburn or something? I'll post this to ASG, see if anyone
knows anything there about it...

Bel
Re: Sega Nomad Repair Help [message #126627 is a reply to message #126624] Tue, 21 November 2006 00:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
blackevilweredragon is currently offline  blackevilweredragon
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Care to post a link to an article about it, perhaps pictures?
Something about this seems odd.. Is the LCD actually showing it?
(meaning, it's not something ON the LCD)
BelPowerslave wrote:
>> I have a serious problem with my sega nomad. Whenever I try to play,
>> this huge (around a nickle size)
>> orange dot is always visible.I've tried to get rid of it, and even
>> tried to move it. Yet nothing works. I not sure how this happened, but
>> i can't undo it! I've looked online and found that many other people
>> have this problem. Still, only one solution was found. Going to some
>> repair man who makes it as good as new. Yet the closest repair store is
>> 365 miles away! And I need to get this fixed before christmas! Any
>> ideas?
>
> Holy shit, I've never heard of anything like that. Man, now this orange
> dot, it actually impairs the view of the game, or it's just sort of
> like screenburn or something? I'll post this to ASG, see if anyone
> knows anything there about it...
>
> Bel
Re: Sega Nomad Repair Help [message #126628 is a reply to message #126627] Tue, 21 November 2006 21:53 Go to previous message
2000man is currently offline  2000man
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when i origionally bought a nomad from toys r us i got it home and in a
day id developed a dark blue line it was on the screen about 1/8 inch
wide so i took it back for a new one

man i hope i dont get the orange ball
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