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Originally Posted by TheBR
Sorry i wasn't clear enough - it is the IR Scanner that broke, the screen functions perfectly.
I took it apart and can see a "burnt out" area, although that really does make it sound worse than it was, around the ribbon cable connecting what I think is the IR scanner around the screen to the mainboard on the IR scanning hardware side.
On close inspection the ribbon cable had a burnt out line. I ordered another from china for a couple of quid but it still didn't work.
I don't have the electronic expertise to diagnose it further but, being honest, it looked like potential water damage that caused a short although im not sure where or how the water got in there. There seemed to be a green powdery residue on the IR scanner hardware in the area.
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salt water damage.
somehow salt water got into the container ship container it traveled in from the factory.
end result: copper chloride where you don't want it.
serial port is your only choice, since you already tried to repair the scanner.