I was sent this mClassic with NO VIDEO Output | Can I FIX it?
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2024
- Piotr very kindly sent me this Marsielle MClassic from Poland! It's stopped displaying, so is pretty useless.
He says something is getting hot on the board, so let's check that out and see if we can fix it!
Hope you enjoy!
Steve
PS. I'm not an expert in repairs at all. I do this for fun, and it may not be the best or safest way to go about repairing broken stuff. I'm pretty good at melting plastic though. Please don't copy me - I'm an idiot.
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Glad the package arrived finally! Just noticed the video on my YT feed. Thanks for the feedback on my soldering job :D
Too bad you haven't managed to get it working - one thing I can suggest is perhaps try it with different screen/console? mClassic even when I got it brand new, I had plenty of problems with getting it to show anything on screen sometimes with some consoles (primarily PlayStation 3) - usually replugging the HDMI cable when console was running fixed it - some weird shenanigans with handshake I assume? Not sure.
Hope you enjoyed the candies!
this thing hooks up only one way and im pretty sure he is hooking it up backwards. the red part is supposed to go to your monitor and the male HDMI plug goes into the console.
@@MartinMull13 And as you can clearly see at 19:07, it is connected correctly. The mClassic itself even indicates it, with 'Source' being where the console should be and is connected.
Don't worry Steve, we still love you.
This is such a spoiler alert don't ever do that again
@@behroz17just don't read comments before watching a video
That chip was ENA Zero, a series made by Sanyo.
i thought they had 6 contacts on them these only have 4
@@peterparker5077eastern European tax took 2 legs
@@peterparker5077 yeah, looks like it's a bipolar transistor but I'm not sure.
at 5:16 there is a SOLDER BRIDGE on the USB connection pins 5 and 6
I think that's probably just solder that got on the metal port itself
@@TalmiiorFixesStuffyeah it’s just some solder at the top of the connector, it’s not on the same plane as the pins
it think it is shorting the case to pin 6 at least.
It could be under it too. Worth investigating
arent data pins bridged on some boards to allow more amperage (pre usb-pd)
It's ok Steve, I'm mainly here for your song at the end of each video
"I did not expect this to work"... the mating call of electronic repairs. Well done, mate. Much love!
Edit: I was too hasty. Still very enjoyable to watch.
Dont matter if you didn't fix it or fixed it work.. still enjoy watching your all videos. Enjoy your great sense of humor and great repairs video as well
I appreciate you acknowledging that 27 degrees is hot for your area but not hot for many others. My area is routinely 35-40 degrees on a hot day which makes it top 10 hottest cities in US.
Some you win some you lose, great video, I'm UK based and electronics engineer. Stuff goes in the bin, that's life.
@stezfix those 2 little square ICs are LDO voltage regulators. They are also in Xbox contollers - TLV70718.
Just finished fixing my Game Boy Advance SP that had a very dirty power switch and I grew a lot of respect for this type of work. Goddamn that stupid little piece that won't solder properly. It took me almost 1 hour to clean the damn thing and it's only one tiny metal piece. So yeah, I envy your patience, keep the great work.
"Those balls look ok there." Oh my, thanks for noticing , Steve ! XD
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@jeffcook3747 Steve tells no lies, those were some mighty fine balls.
Greetings from POLAND to both of you! :)
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I wish you many more of his vids. They are great !
At 5:10 looks like a solder bridge between two pins on the HDMI connector??? Could be intermittent - I have an oscilloscope which developed a dead channel after ** 30 years ** which turned out to be a tiny solder whisker standing up off the board which had taken that long to finally bend over and shorted something out. Had been there since new and took that long to happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am 99% sure the little square things are Filters, and a way to test if they broken is to check is the diagonals are shorted, is they are, it's broken
If the case is metal, maybe it's shorting to the case..
I was thinking filter too.
I am thinking the same thing, pretty sure it's a filter, especially considering pretty much the entire circuit is dedicated to video and HDMI output
i dont think the filters used for hdmi on other consoles get ground tho?
Yeah, seen them on consoles a bunch. Definitely HDMI Filters. Was about to say this
Yea they look like baluns.
5:17 is that a solder bridge on top of the socket 5 and 6 possibly to the shield
Great fix!!! (spoke too soon lol) - Need to watch to the end I think! Even greater choice in T-Shirt =D
Give it another blast of heat, if it works again try changing the crystal. I had a USB arcade joystick and button controller board that only worked when heated once. On a whim I changed the 16MHZ crystal. It's working great ever since. Love the videos by the way.
Love your shirt!
What Steve you are making us all feel better! You are one of us after all 😇
@ 5:16, There appears to be a solder bridge between pins 5 & 6?
Nice vid Steve. I send to you positive energy! Hi from Albacete, Spain!
You can't win 'em all. At least you show your fails, so good on you. Bit of a shame nothing could be learned from this one either.
Good to see you Steve! Great vid mate!
You got me every time with that " FADE "
I actually love the mClassic. I use it in conjunction with my EON GCHD GameCube HDMI adaptor. Definitely helps clean up the image on a modern television.
Ooo I'll look into that. Where did you get the HDMI adapter?
@@rustynail1194 Google Gamecube Carby. It's a much better more affordable option and will work great with the Mclassic. Also you can get an EDID emulator that will force the Mclassic to 1440p if your monitor can handle it.
I use the mClassic with the PhotoFast 4K. It works great.
Intermission was great 👍
Love the Holy Grail intermission Steve😂 keep up the great vids pal 👍
EE Mark on a SMD can be a SOT-343R RP130Q521A Ricoh Linear Voltage Regulator
SOT-343R is a drastically different SMD package.
This trade is a true embodiment of a man is only as good as his tools
Watching from Poland 🔥
Dude, watching your videos, made me buy a multimiter the other day. It was great being able to test the voltage of batteries, now I'm going to try an electrocute...? sorry I meant, fix something. It's an interesting hobby, I just need to break something, easy, first.
Loving the My Mate Vince top. 👍
Welcome Back Uncle Steve.
Ale skisłem z Draży Korsarzy! 🤣
00:16 - ❤
I love that it’s hot at 28 degrees there in summer. Still winter here in Oz 🇦🇺 and it’s 34 degrees today. 🥵
You might be in North Queensland or WA. Here in southern Queensland today it will be a lovely 30c.
Nah mate, just outside Gatton, Qld
Love how you tackle these repairs with such humor, Steve! 😂 It's like a tech comedy show sometimes. Also, agree with the board holder idea, def helps with those wobbly moments! Hope Piotr has more goodies for you next time! 🍫🔧
AMAZING 🎉😊❤❤ works one instant and not the next 🤔🤔🤔😤
@13:34 the 2kOhm resistor to ground is probably a pull down resistor. So yeah, it’s totally fine for some resistors to be shorted to ground on one side.
Pozdrowienia z Polski dla Piotra
13:07 Yes, it would be normal for a resistor to be shorted to VCC or ground if it was a pull-up or pull-down resistor respectively.
The snack with The pirate on it, try it, it's amazing. Coconut bits covered in chocolate
I thought I’m the only one viewer from Poland 😄🇵🇱
Nonsens, there are plenty of us here 😎
Watched all your videos now, bring on the next content!
Love your videos! I miss the quiet moments when you speed up the video do the tedious tests and things!
How can the LED come on if it's drawing 0 ? What's powering the LED? Also, as pointed out elsewhere, at the beginning, there was a sliver of solder on the HDMI connector that looked like it was going between pins, when you were re-flowing that sliver might've melted back onto the pins?
12:16 Hi !
13:36 Resistance is Usile !
0 amps.
That little LED is gonna be 0.058 amps, not enough for a $10 meter to detect. Duh.
Tis just a scratch.
In the PCB lacquer.
Great video as always but couldn't understand what the device was supposed to do .
I think you need a board holder. When you were nudging the chip the whole board was moving.
when you looked beneath the big chip it looked like a small crack on the side of it. Could just have been dirt as well but it stood out too me ^^
I thought that it looked like a crack also, glad to see someone else thought so too!
You content is really......solid
Ill see myself out
Close the door behind you
Oh god no real fix but I'm so happy you tried Steve. Learning is hard. But hey I like your covers of popular music. Your originals are not bad either, a bit more prod! Says the guy who do nothing with music.
Gordon the Gopher pop up never fails to make me chuckle.
Nice, greets from Poland
@StezStixFix you might wanna reconsider your room ventilation. or is that a humidifier at 9:20 ?
Unlucky Steve I’m sure there’s going to be a revisit 😊
No you didn't butcher Piotr roughly translated Peter!
Why roughly? It's literally the Polish version of the name Peter, am I wrong?
pronunciation wise, he did 😆
@@Peter_A1466 he did not wdym?
@@Jaszczursky_ I mean he did...
Nice Python intermission.
When the video started working after the re-flow I was willing to bet money it's not gonna last. I remember that era when everyone but granny was shoving their dead gpus into ovens in the hope of resurrecting them, and surprisingly quite a lot did... for a short while. Heat does that sometimes to dead chips. Unfortunately it never lasts, and unless you have strong reasons to suspect corrosion, re-flowing is generally wasted effort. You stumbled into confirming the main chip was the culprit, and now it's dead for good. To the recycler this goes.
I've always wanted one of them
Hi Steve, BGA chipsets which heat up too much and "pure" tin soldering don't go well together in long term ; I wonder if this is not the problem... 🤨
28c would be a nice cool day lol I would love to live in the UK. Especially if it rains as much as I hear about. It's been almost 41c here for 2 months straight :(
And where is here?
@@Vandebilt Texas in the US
great video once again. what portable monitor were u using in this video please thanks
My mate Vince tee!
Hi Steve!! What cable are you using to connect the Switch to the monitor? Thank you so much for your content!!!
I guess the aluminium cases forces the board to flex and cracks some microsoldering maybe even under that chip.
4:34 the 4 pins where it says U3 dont look soldered good there???
No they don't. That could be why it only works after a soder reflow. I think this thing was made at 5pm on a Friday, like everything else made in China.
Well done !
Oh, you got Korsarze candy, you lucky bastard!
The reflow master
Polish Chocolate is good, yum!
We have the power!
Draże Korsarze ❤
Pozdro Piotr
can win them all steve
2:44 I have missed you. In a very non-creepy way, of course….saved it 😂
Is that a RP130x voltage regulator they come in dfn 1010-4 packages. s-manuals smd code search identified it as a possibility.
Sometimes I watch your channel and I wax existential. I think of how our ancestors crawled out of the sea at some point and ended up going into the trees and coming down again. Then I think of how I am writing this on a device made with components from all over the world in a language that is not my own, communicating my thoughts to people I will never see in person who also understand a language that may not be their own. I also consider how we have one thing in common: watching this man tinker with items that our species at some point invented and created from scratch.
.... yeah I don't enjoy being me a lot either/
Skip? Not with that sweet Patreon old school rap slow jam
It may be the crystal, working fine with heat and then going back to failing once cooled, worth a try ....
You need to add another well-deserved 4000 subs to your counter!
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Aww that was a rollercoaster of emotions there! I really thought “nah, that’s not gonna get fixed, hot-air the hell out of it for luck and then give up if the magic heat doesn’t fix it”
And then it worked! You have the magic touch!
Gods of electronic repair:
“Oops, sorry, wrong number, gonna need to take back that magic touch, soz”
I think sometimes it’s harder to walk away and say “I tried” than it is to keep going until you get down about it or go insane, so well done mate.
And well done for not doing what I suspect some people do and cut the video after it stopped working haha.
Yeah, this one was a rollercoaster, that's for darn sure. I went back to it a couple of days later, 'cos it was driving me mad that it worked for a bit, but alas, those electronic repair gods would not let me replicate the success 😢
You should get a multimeter that chirps on a diode junction and beeps on a short (in diode mode)
Could it be a damaged pin inside a HDMI port? I can't remember seeing you check?
Yourvthe best
There you are!!
I use 2 of them for PlayStation classic and this make big difference looks
519 is the timeline you can see the two data lines bridged with solder right at the scene where it connects to the board
It’s projected to be 97 degrees (36• Celsius) here in Indiana, USA Today.
Didn't know you from Bolton. 😊
Oh man, I didn't know these can force 4:3... now I might need to get one, unless you wanna sell me this one to play around with?
Oh hell yes Draże Korsarze, just had them 5 minutes ago lol 😂
Had no idea you where a local :) ....
Ever go on the toughsheet wednesday car boot ? Been decent for old retro electronics :)
Noticing the monitor go into Power Save mode, before it finally worked (before putting it back together), I thought it was turning everything off. But it was just something it was doing right and not an issue. LOL.
Fully reballing. Reflow is not for long. Maybe the connection is lose again?
No review of the chocolate ?
Shocking !!!
Snatching a fail from the jaws of victory is an achievement of some sort.
Steve probably can't review it until it has cooled down; otherwise it will affect the melted plastic count! (LOL).🤣
This was definitely a what the flux moment. If it won’t work after reflowing I just usually just blame static electricity.
Mclassic is a good little device, alittle over priced, bit I like the one I have, and I also like the photofast gamer+ I own
maybe plug the Mclassic into a usb plug as opposed to the usb on the console?
peace be upon you sir
Piotr = Piter - you readed it quite good :)