Hardware

I recently repaired a MIDI keyboard which has been causing me trouble for a long while. This was my first go at doing electronic board repair with surface mount components, and it went well!

See the LCD display flicker on and off as the unit resets itself at random moments:

This model is pretty old now, and many of these units suffered a problem dubbed the “blue screen of death”. This relates to how the LCD would go dead and the blue backlight was the only sign of life.

I found a walkthrough of this repair in this excellent YouTube video. Fortunately I was able to follow along with that repair video and replicate the steps, both testing to find the problem and also the fix.

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