Mintek Fix

Ryan,
The loose or broken connection may be possible since the ground wires in the DVD cable are so fine that it was difficult to solder the much heavier ground wires in the component cable to ithem If I can get it working as is I think what I do is to revert to the other fix to solder the component wires directly to the flat and non-flat strands of the component input jack. This will be easier to insure a good contact. I understand this should have the same effect as connecting them to the DVD cable.
In regard to the remote code I used the cable remote to search for a program code for the TV since the 3 codes they had for Mintek did not work.and finally found one that turned the TV off. However in trying to turn it on again it would only put the TV in standby and I had to push one of the side buttoms to get it to come on fully but still no picture.
I'm now going to undue the first fix and solder the component wires and ground directly to the flat and non-flat strands of the component input jack and see if that works. The problem seems to be that the TV doesnt want to come out of the DVD mode whenst it was originally frozen when I started the fix.
Mike