I forwarded this to the group for a tech. PLease help. Phil Bader Hi, Have here an RCA CTC 177 and suspect bad eeprom chip as the set will not power on and have check all the ususal "stuff" ... standby supplies, etc. Question is... was there a procedure when putting in the new eeprom where you put in a socket also and then can extract the parameters yet from the "bad" one so as not to have to do an entire alignment? If there is such a process, what were the steps? Thanks, Harlan ------------------------------------------ Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html ------------------------------------------ To REMOVE your email address, click here: http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html To CHANGE your email address, click here: http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html