This was a dog I would not wish on anyone...
Q511 was shorted on the power supply board. If you replace it with another small transistor it will overheat and fail again. I replaced it with a TO-220 3055 type NPN power transistor with a small heat sink on the tab....keeps it cool...
Also unit still acted erratically...
check the +5 volt regulator on the CPU board on the front panel...
Replaced it and everything worked EXCEPT the remote control did not work...
this is a BS design, the 3 terminal 5 volt regulator has it's ground lead FLOATED up by 0.7 Volts with a diode....so the actual supply voltage will be 5.7 Volts.
With 5 volts on the supply it kinda works but not reliably and the remote didn't work.....
I upped the voltage to 5.7 Volt supply in place and it worked fine...
Replaced the 5 volt regulator with a TO-220 also and replaced the shorted diode that lifts the ground lead. You need to get 5.7 Volts on the CPU supply PWB for this beast to work well...
You don't have to remove the CPU card from the front panel which is a bear to do... the 3 terminal regulator is 3 leads that you can get to from the back of the PWB, it is just below where the leads come up from the power supply...
Hope this helps
Mark