Trying to REPAIR a Nintendo GameCube - Black Screen - No Disc Spin
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Hi, this Nintendo GameCube was sent in by Hayley, it was working when it was stored away 3 years ago, but now it doesn't display on the TV and it doesn't spin the discs. The power distribution has already been changed and it still doesn't work.
Can it be fixed? Let's find out.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince.
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I'm definitely buying a lottery ticket this week!!!!!!
Your spoiler saver didnt work for some reason. Im on a galaxy tab s8 ultra and i get the first comment below this one which spoiled it right away 😢
That was insane I thought you killed the board 😂👍
@@criostasis I know, annoyingly I think it only works on PCs. It is a shame RUclips don't stick a banner advert there to stop the top comment being visible. Sorry about that.
@@BowsettesFury I got so so lucky with this one Bowsette!!!
Love the spoiler Saver, i have asked for this on other channels and nothing, when they spoil the video i just skip it.
A miraculous bodge job! The perseverance and patience of Job.
I’m so glad you were able to fix it! My only explanation was the storage container it was stored in last year got pretty damp over the winter, so perhaps some condensation got in there and corroded that little spot on the board! Great video as always, thanks Vince!
Thanks for the background on the likely cause of the fault and sending it over to me Hayley!
Most have been existing to watch. Or did you know the result before the video went on air ?
Eh? My dude it was her item, of course she knew the result of the fix🤣
@@andersjakobsen9906I didn’t know the outcome until it went live on Patreon!
Definitely invest in silica gel dessicant packets. Toss them in your storage containers and you're good. Manufacturers understand that their products are sensitive to moisture so they use them all the time.
You crazy madman! Congratz!
Vince, when using SD cards, in cameras, after filming, pull the data off the card, then reformat the card. Each and every time, this resets the file allocation table. When you erase from a card, it leaves the FAT alone, and that can corrupt your files.
i was waiting for the smoke but i remember dont plp cut them boards down for a had held mod, anyway good fix
My GC showed a game in black and white then black screen. Tried 3 cables with same results. The video pins looked a bit wonky so im gonna start there.
And other idea's?
It's a good thing you're not a dentist.
What did I just see. Never have I seen a repair like that. Vince your mind works in a unique way. Keep it up.
That’s amazing. At first when I saw the drill I thought “oh no, man, that’s probably a multi-layered board” but the location of the via being right along the side of the cpu was perfect. Can’t believe this worked, that’s incredible, great job! BTW, first time commenting but been watching your vids for years. I love how you go all the way - you have to find the fault or it keeps you up at night. A lot of other people would just give up and say it’s not economical to fix, but you … you are a different breed my friend. Thanks for the entertainment. Cheers from Canada!
I'm speechless... I thought you'd ruined it for good. You are, at this point, *a mad tinkerer!*
BONUS INFO:
Capacitors and inductors have non-static resistance.
When performing the continuity test on a capacitor, you will have a brief moment of very low resistance while the capacitor charges up. As it charges up, however, the resistance will increase, meaning at some point the resistance goes above the continuity cutoff. This leads to a beep-to-silence continuity behavior.
When performing the continuity test on an inductor, it will at first appear to be open (or very high resistance). But as electricity begins to flow through the inductor, the resistance goes *down,* eventually leading to a situation where the resistance falls *below* the continuity cutoff. This leads to a silence-to-beep continuity behavior.
Thus, you can sometimes determine what the component is by the way the multimeter beeps:
Constant beep: Low-resistance resistor.
Constant silence: High-resistance resistor.
Beep-to-silence: Capacitor.
Silence-to-beep: Inductor.
Not all of them will behave that way, however:
If the capacitance of a capacitor is too low, you won't hear the initial beep, thus appearing as a high-resistance component.
If the inductance of an inductor is too low, the beep will begin immediately, thus appearing as a low-resistance component.
In other words:
Beep-to-silence or silence-to-beep *almost always signify* it's a capacitor or inductor (respectively). There may be some special non-standard components that exhibit these behavior, but I don't know _that_ much about electronics.
Constant silence or constant beep *doesn't necessarily signify* a high-resistance or low-resistance resistor; it may simply be a capacitor or inductor (respectively) with a very low capacitance or very low inductance (respectively).
Hey Vince, you were "on the ball" with this one 😂😂😂😂 Nice job. I wasn't confident that it would work but it appears that it did!
Well done 👍
You haven't ended up buying a fake SD card have you? It's what it sounds like to me. Even places like Amazon are riddled with them. Usually state to be a certain capacity but is normally only 1/4 or so of what's stated. Once it reaches actual capacity the files just delete/overwrite themselves and come out corrupted. You can use something like H2testw to find out/test it's capacity.
Crying at the screen while u trying to solder dry ass solder to the bga flux, flux, flux 😂
You are one of a kind Vince, you drill a big hole through the PCB, and when you did, i said for myself, "you fucked it up Vince, just swallow the pill and give up"!
And still, you manage to find the very right ball an get it to work!
Am amazed!
Great job!❤
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I can't believe that actually worked, Vince! Wow. How lucky is that. Would poking a wire through the damaged via and heating it with the soldering iron perhaps have worked? I would imagine it would poke through to the ball and perhaps solder to it? Would perhaps have saved the drill. That drill looked so terrifying under the microscope. :O
I know, what are the odds!!! I think the hole needed to be made bigger as the ball was slightly offset and not directly under the via. Also the via itself seemed to be quite full (maybe with the solder mask and bits of corrosion) 👍
Miracle indeed! After seeing the mess from the drill, I thought no way is this working. Well, you showed me. Unbelievable
I have a "part finished" of the exact same issue - on this one here I removed the CPU to fix the trace, OMG is it the most painful thing to re-fit the CPU... I need to try and motivate myself to re-try fitting it again... Totally amazed you managed to fix this after drilling through the layers lol!!! A "just before Christmas" Miracle =D Great work Vince!!! It shows that determination sometimes beats all the odds! I think if that proves to be reliable over hours of testing - it could be sold as a working Gamecube - other than how large that hole was, you've joined up what needs joining (properly) and secured it properly. So its a fix that should be reliable imho.
A Christmas miracle it truly was 😂 I think I remember your video from years back, we need a Part 2 now Chris! I want to see your pain of reballing it as I sit here smugly watching whilst playing Mario Kart Double Dash on the NON reballed GameCube😂
🤣🤣🤣@@Mymatevince Don't forget the part where in my first attempt I heated it for like 20 mins and was dripping with sweat from all the heat lol
@@GadgetUK164 Hahaha, but not quite as much sweat as when you used the drill in reverse!!!!
You're a mad man, Vince. Glad you got her Gamecube working. That was a great idea and a considerable amount of bravery.
I'm surprised it worked out (and glad it did so) but I admit I was mortified when you took the drill to the board😅 I personally might have explored the other side under the heat sink first. PS: I don't trust SanDisk cards any longer, after going through a number of failures...
there's a possibility there were fake/counterfeit cards ?
@@VintageTechRepairs they were legit, I just think the quality in production has suffered.
Tut Tut Tut, The old saying, "Measure Twice, Cut Once!". You never checked before drilling, there is a moral to be learnt here :D
Measure once, get lucky XD
Not going to lie I was kind of livid when you started drilling like a mad man. I thought you had killed the board for good. What an amazing result!
Chip off 100%. And Vince, you can sell this as working even with that fix. Just mention that in auction. I have bought consoles from Ebay u.k that was sold as mint but was damaged. The worst was a Amiga CD32 that was sold as in great condition. Did get it to Sweden and first thing i saw was that the whole console was glued shut with super glue. Seller acting like ”oh i did not know that”. Seller was a retrogame seller at Ebay so he knew. Then when i startup the CD32 there was graphic glitches that he did not know either. So now i was not able to fix that problem (cap replacement) without break the whole console cover. Anyways, keep up the great videos Vince. Greets from Sweden❤
Unbelievable. I honestly thought you would throw in the towel. The joy in your voice when it worked. Amazing
I suspect board corrosion like that is leftover contaminates from the factory, slowly eating away. I'm sure they use some water wash flux and I guess that could show the importance of thorough washing.
Vince, that was some excellent PCB digging you did there. Great job and a very fun video to watch.
Concerning the corrupted SD cards: Always be sure to shutdown your microscope before you power it off by holding the Standby button on the front pressed. It've heard of it corrupting files when power just cuts out (e.g. by switching it off using the cord-power-control of the lamp for instance). I do have an Andonstar microscope myself and keep on forgetting to shut it down propely from time to time myself.
Haha 😂😂 I'm happy to see your caveman tactics worked. Just drill a hole through 4 layers and solder everything that will fix it. 😅
It's crazy. following your video, I found some corrosion on my gamecube on the same area, almost the same spot.
To chime in with what other folks are saying about sd cards, there are high endurance sd cards for cameras if you weren't aware. They're slightly more expensive, slightly slower, but designed to record tens of thousands of hours of video without failing.
generally on a 4 layer pcb it'll be signal-vcc-gnd-signal in terms on layer order
Excellent, thanks for sharing👍
wow when I saw that hole in this several layers board i really had no hope for it working in the end that's really a miracle :D :) vince did a great job there ;D have a good day whoever's reading this...
Trying. To. Repair. A. Nintendo. GameCube. Black screen. No
When i opened mine up, i had to use the wobbly extender bit which came with my i fixit tool kit i could then add the game bit to the tip of it and unscrew
Interesting fix 👍 good job
Cheers Paul👍
I think you just used up any luck with Nintendo consoles you had left.
My wife just ask why is the bip bip guy is having a yellow map now😂😂
That thumbnail looks so cool 😀
The upgrades on this channel make me glad that I watched your videos for 5 years
One video that I’m thankful of you making is the video 6 years ago of a tutorial called *How to set up a Nintendo Switch* (because when my mum bought me a switch, I had no idea how to work it because the last Nintendo console I used was a dsi from 2009 lol)
That was an awesome fix, I would have tried going from the side with an small wire first and trying to melt it with an hot air gun + lots of flux and if that would have failed i would reball it as i'm trying to learn reballing abit atm
Thanks Karthor. I think in hindsight I would have tried going in from the side as well. I just thought the heat sink was going to be a nightmare to remove, but as usual I was very wrong!!!
root canal treatment on the board... well done for the fix Vince!
FIL - They are probably filters
What a fix. I would have given up on that completely once the via was no more. Well done Vince!
I would have bet $1,000 that was now junk when I saw that hole in the board. I don't understand how it's fixed and working but congrats!
Too big thrill bit with the too big drill bit.
😂
My gamcube says right after language select GameCube DOL-001(EUR) say's An error has occurred.....any idea what it might be.
Vince, forget Sandisk. Get yourself Samsung Pro Plus (blue MicroSD card). They are very fast. They also have one that comes with USB MicroSD card reader for extra $3 here. I also have Samsung USB drives and they are very fast as well.
Just FYI.. counterfeit SanDisk SD cards are all over Amazon. eBay, etc.. they’ve even made there way into brick & mortar stores.
Just a quick one vince. If your microscope has a USB port you should be able to capture its output "live" on a laptop and record it. Saves the hassle and faff that comes with SD cards.
You don't really need to reball every BGA chip you remove. It's more "professional", sure. You'll receive less stupid yt comments that way also.
But, is you just want to fix things steady hands and some thick flux is all you need.
4:16 PLEASE don‘t touch boards like that! You might kill the board (ESD)! (No hate, I love your Vidoes!)
Hey homie I'm sorry but I'm not trying to listen to your wife slamming things in the background. I watched your videos cus they were relaxing and soothing and this video I'm hearing clanking and slamming like crazy. She gotta respect your filming a little more man. Your working.
IIRC the CPU is the smaller chip and the GPU with Chipset/IO is the bigger chip in the middle.
That's how it was at the time, with 2 Chip Solutions...
I always have a problem with Sandisk microsd cards. They are the worst of the worst I have found, and I actively refuse to buy them. I buy Samsung microSD cards these days, never had any issues with their ones.
I had similar problems with GoPro cameras and SanDisk(the extreme series not the cheap ones) constant data corruption lottery changed to Lexar and Kioxia and the problem is gone dunno if it's some sort of incompatibility or quality issue but some of my friends had same problems and some use SandDisk cards without issue.
Wow, talk about your long shot fixes. LOL That was more like ice fishing... you just caught a hole in the surface and hoped the fish were biting. :D
You must be one of the luckiest basketball players on earth , why arent you trying your luck with the national prizzzzzze ,according to this you have higher winnig chances than most . 😊😊😊😊😅
Hope the Rolls - Royce going tru the inspektion on OMT ! You have done a greth work on this !!,👍👍👍👍👍
you butcher of nintendo...i cant believe you used the drill....:( however you saved the day, well done! i bet you was sweating...lol
NGL, an ugly looking fix, but it was a fix. Does this count as training for keyhole surgery? Great job Vince
Can't seem to find your contact email. Do you want a 2tb wd caviar green hard drive? The only thing that's wrong with it is broken sata connector. Hard drive itself should be fine.
INCREDIBLE.
check out northwest repair. he is a damned gpu genie
Man, I think you killed the board 😂😂😂 just amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Love your videos! May I ask where you purchased your desoldering gun? I would like to purchase one like it. Thanks
good job man, but i personally would have reballed that chip and have a wire through the via, a google search revealed it only has 256 balls, so not that many, you could have done it by hand 1by1 🤪
Painstaking to watch with no flux the suspense is killing me and I'm not trying to be sarcastic I love your videos
Yup, when the gamecube asks you to set up the language and clock, the clock battery died. I did a little mod on my Game cube where I replaced the origingal battery with a battery holder to make it a little future proof and easier to repace the battery in the future,
You're skilled under the microscope Vince, but I think you'd find it a lot easier if you used more flux buddy.
Why don't you use GC Loader PNP By Black Dog Tech instead of the discs?
One way to see if that pad was still connected to the BGA of the chip if test the corroded pad in diode mode, if you get a reading then it is connected. Edit - never mind hadn't watched all the video.
Imagine if you started every video with the schematics and specs. If the unit is well-known there is no reason not to, and everything would be so much easier. Got away with this one
Cool fix. Interesting how it corroded in just one tiny spot in the storage. Maybe that spot had some manufacturing defect even before putting it in storage, making it more prone for corrosion?
is your mainboard same as hers? maybe switch over and check and then if it works then send a complete and functioning one back to her and keep the botched working one yourself :D
I always think you deserve a quiet studio to block out the background noise. Log cabin in the garden or something?
Wow!!...full of twists and turns, literally. I loved to see the laser. Also, you were real lucky there heheh!.
hi micro drill 0.5mm and under this is the best way to do it note when the real mask goe's very hard there's no it come away
i fix a pcb for a tascam 38 break was down the side i re glued the pcb put it fine jumper wires add the solder mask 10 years later
the pcb is still ok
i buy alot of gear of ebay you don't have to be picky about reselling gear you fixed as long as you tell the buyer you had it in a repiar video
i think you be ok
in the 90's in the video hire days alot of video recorders went out on hire that were never working right note
if you see all the repair video's were they do up betamax decks and resell them they don't worry about the repairs
to the gear you are showing all good things how many things you will save in the years to come
Do you know the GameCube has the internal clock battery Vince?
What I think I'd have tried first would have been to stick a fine wire, maybe one strand of a finely stranded wire, down the corroded via to see if I got a connection somewhere down the hole. If i did, I'd have tried tinning it and coating it with flux to see if it could connect somewhere along the way, and then have it soldered on through the existing hole.
Vince. Love you, bro. But look up some teardown videos before you work on these popular consoles.
Northridge fix uses heat and UV light to cure thicker applications of solder mask
Hi Vince that was incredibly difficult to repair, well done 👍
Awesome vid! The grid of vias that you see are unlikely to be the location of the actual ball on the IC. They are adjacent to the balls and allow the signals to immediately connect out to the other PCB layers. If the balls were on top of the vias, the solder would likely wick down the hole and cause a bad ball connection.
@Mymatevince , where did you get that sd card that is failing ? Perhaps it's not the capacity it's claiming it is
I'm happy that you were able to fix it, but, man, that was ugly and I kind of doubted it... : ) That was a serious candidate to the dump.
Well done Vince your persistence paid off, a good thing to remember you can’t break something that doesn’t work ☺️
Keep up the good work
Now you know who touched it if you come across a repair, and it looks like the board had a drill bit went through it..
I did something similar to a Via southbridge on an old motherboard. I had to file a V groove onto the side of the chipset pcb to access a ball under it. It was corroded.
Trying. To. Fix. An. immaculate. Nintendo. Game. Cube
for the sake of my sanity try to use micro drill bits next time which are meant for "this" kind of repairs...keep it up 😜
With regards to your microscope currupting.
I run my scope through a capture card in to the PC and use obs to record what I'm doing.
Might save you some time and you can have your scope in to a big screen making it easier to see.
😁
Ive fixed 2 gamecubes so far by turning the potentiator down that controls laser because both systems would power on but not spin discs
What a fluke! Well done though 😄
What’s with all the cups and plates noise in the background and someone slapping around in sliders
Use ADATA, NETAC or APACER. SanDisk breaks too often.
Hey Vince. I would run your sd card through h2testw to make sure your card passes the test.
For the amount of butchery on this one... you definitely have all the reasons to punch the air haha. Great save!
Sandisks are the only brand of card I've ever had fail and it's happened about 3 times to me. They do issually go read only so at least you can recover the data but I personally view them as the least reliable.
Lol good ole Vince, making a complete mess of something relatively routine once again.
I’ve gotta admit Vince, a bit of me died when you were drilling in to the motherboard.
The drill scene reminded me of the Matrix film, where the squid things were drilling into their city
Do a H2testw check on the offending microSD card and see if it has any faulty sectors Vince
beware there is fake solder mask around i take a test bit out of the tube and use the uv light before i use it on any pcb i know what you use so i buy what you have