I have a NES console that had the Grey light of death too and literally nothing I did made it work, I had 5 different connectors, new and used, it would either just show a solid color or garbled content whatever you did with it, I could put the connectors into other consoles and they worked, put them back and they did not. I polish the edge connector on the PCB, re-cap the whole board, checked every trace, measure every voltage, checked everything and all checked out and still not worked. I was sure it was a faulty chip on the board somewhere as nothing worked. But in the end it was STILL that damned 72 pin connector it was not happy about, even if I tried several different ones, original or not, boiled, refurbed, cleaned, ultrasonic, cleaned, sanded, you name it. when I finally managed to make one connector it was happy with this console have worked ever since with it. I don´t know how and I don´t know why but it just seems extra sensitive for some reason, It went grey again one time but then I just took the cleaning cartridge to it and it was good again immediately. it is by far the pickiest console I own but I made it my stereo sound mod console and I call it the franken-console- with my own console in mind I think you could try to test some more with the connector too in case you have the same problem as me
Interesting to hear! I will definitely have to investigate trying that spare connector I have left, and see if that makes a difference. And if it doesn't, maybe it's worth picking up another one for cheap just to try it out. Worst case, I'll have a spare connector to use down the line. Thanks for the recommendation!
I tried that too on my one console that I couldn't get past the grey screen. Unfortunately, no luck on that one. Now to buy a desoldering gun and go to town trying to socket and swap chips!
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Thanks for the video. Looked like a fun project.
It was! Thanks for watching!
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I have a NES console that had the Grey light of death too and literally nothing I did made it work, I had 5 different connectors, new and used, it would either just show a solid color or garbled content whatever you did with it, I could put the connectors into other consoles and they worked, put them back and they did not. I polish the edge connector on the PCB, re-cap the whole board, checked every trace, measure every voltage, checked everything and all checked out and still not worked. I was sure it was a faulty chip on the board somewhere as nothing worked. But in the end it was STILL that damned 72 pin connector it was not happy about, even if I tried several different ones, original or not, boiled, refurbed, cleaned, ultrasonic, cleaned, sanded, you name it. when I finally managed to make one connector it was happy with this console have worked ever since with it. I don´t know how and I don´t know why but it just seems extra sensitive for some reason, It went grey again one time but then I just took the cleaning cartridge to it and it was good again immediately. it is by far the pickiest console I own but I made it my stereo sound mod console and I call it the franken-console-
with my own console in mind I think you could try to test some more with the connector too in case you have the same problem as me
Interesting to hear! I will definitely have to investigate trying that spare connector I have left, and see if that makes a difference. And if it doesn't, maybe it's worth picking up another one for cheap just to try it out. Worst case, I'll have a spare connector to use down the line.
Thanks for the recommendation!
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I tried that too on my one console that I couldn't get past the grey screen. Unfortunately, no luck on that one. Now to buy a desoldering gun and go to town trying to socket and swap chips!