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D50 Repair - menu button, firmware issue?
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<blockquote data-quote="tertiumsquid" data-source="post: 110629" data-attributes="member: 12757"><p><span style="color: #3C3B3B"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Hi all, got a troublesome Nikon D50 here. Powers up, takes photos, changes settings etc, but the Menu button doesn't work. Simple enough for an experienced electronics tech, right? </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #3C3B3B"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Hmm... </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #3C3B3B"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Tested the button itself, and it works. Traced the pinout from the zif connector to the button, continuity is good. (It's pin 6 on the zif, btw - pin 5 is Play, pin 7 is ISO, 8 is WB, 9 is Enter/Qual). Popped the main board out of the camera to attempt to trace the connection further, but sadly it's a multi layer board and I can't see the traces. Found a few extraneous solder balls stuck to the board, but picking them off didn't help. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #3C3B3B"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">So I put the camera back together and played with it some more. Turns out the camera actually responds to the Menu button being pushed (the top screen starts flashing the speed/aperture) but the menu itself doesn't come up. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #3C3B3B"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Any ideas on fixing this, short of sending it to Nikon for a ridiculous sum of money, or replacing the entire main board for a slightly less ridiculous sum of money ($80-ish)? Alternatively, anyone seen this before? </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #3C3B3B"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">(note: I did actually RTFM, and have tried both types of reset plus manually disconnecting the clock battery)</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tertiumsquid, post: 110629, member: 12757"] [COLOR=#3C3B3B][FONT=Verdana]Hi all, got a troublesome Nikon D50 here. Powers up, takes photos, changes settings etc, but the Menu button doesn't work. Simple enough for an experienced electronics tech, right? [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#3C3B3B][FONT=Verdana]Hmm... [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#3C3B3B][FONT=Verdana]Tested the button itself, and it works. Traced the pinout from the zif connector to the button, continuity is good. (It's pin 6 on the zif, btw - pin 5 is Play, pin 7 is ISO, 8 is WB, 9 is Enter/Qual). Popped the main board out of the camera to attempt to trace the connection further, but sadly it's a multi layer board and I can't see the traces. Found a few extraneous solder balls stuck to the board, but picking them off didn't help. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#3C3B3B][FONT=Verdana]So I put the camera back together and played with it some more. Turns out the camera actually responds to the Menu button being pushed (the top screen starts flashing the speed/aperture) but the menu itself doesn't come up. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#3C3B3B][FONT=Verdana]Any ideas on fixing this, short of sending it to Nikon for a ridiculous sum of money, or replacing the entire main board for a slightly less ridiculous sum of money ($80-ish)? Alternatively, anyone seen this before? [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#3C3B3B][FONT=Verdana](note: I did actually RTFM, and have tried both types of reset plus manually disconnecting the clock battery)[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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