Vince's Ebay Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)

Vince said:
Gents I have been holding back goodies from you... I feel bad! CIB N64 Goldeneye edition anybody? :D Got it for a decent deal missing a cable which I have now sourced :D - Might have to grab another controller and play some n64 :)

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Get the RGB mod in one!!! I still dream of getting a reasonably priced funtastic one or the white re shell eventually makes it to the market to match everything else
 
Got my ghetto digital microscope on the go, 1 hdmi microscope, an old drill press and a small hdmi panel, and hey presto :p

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Got my ghetto digital microscope on the go, 1 hdmi microscope, an old drill press and a small hdmi panel, and hey presto :p

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That's similar to my setup, I just run mine on a boom and output via obs.



I di need to quickly recap this JP game gear sound board though.

And it's about this far away to get a entire tiny gg sound board into one shot.

 
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@Vince .. right i've now got the switch here.. and there are 2 controllers that need some work..

The first (right hand one) is quite a simple fix I think, the thumb stick no longer has the vertical push down click, everything else works. So i'm guessing just replace the thumb stick?

The second (left hand one) is a bit more complex, the controller in itself works, every button, thumb stick etc.. and it controls the switch fine..

However, if I plug it onto the switch I get the little indication of a controller being plugged in, (like a flash of the controller colour at the side of the switch screen), however after that the switch refuses to recognise it's got a controller plugged into it. The controller does charge, but the switch refuses to believe the controller is attached.

The other left hand controller I have works fine and is recognised by the switch as being plugged in, so I don't think it's the switch itself. (thankfully!)

I was thinking just replace the charging rail, i.e. the black plastic thing that slides into the switch.. unless you have any other ideas?

Thanks again for any help you can provide.
R.
 
SimonRigga said:
@Vince .. right i've now got the switch here.. and there are 2 controllers that need some work..

The first (right hand one) is quite a simple fix I think, the thumb stick no longer has the vertical push down click, everything else works. So i'm guessing just replace the thumb stick?

The second (left hand one) is a bit more complex, the controller in itself works, every button, thumb stick etc.. and it controls the switch fine..

However, if I plug it onto the switch I get the little indication of a controller being plugged in, (like a flash of the controller colour at the side of the switch screen), however after that the switch refuses to recognise it's got a controller plugged into it. The controller does charge, but the switch refuses to believe the controller is attached.

The other left hand controller I have works fine and is recognised by the switch as being plugged in, so I don't think it's the switch itself. (thankfully!)

I was thinking just replace the charging rail, i.e. the black plastic thing that slides into the switch.. unless you have any other ideas?

Thanks again for any help you can provide.
R.
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Right hand one sounds like it just needs a replacement joycon thumb stick, nice easy replacement that is... the second one sounds like the rail / pins on the rail have issues, 9 times out of 10 its just some corrosion in the connector, some ipa and a toothbrush will often sort it.
 
Tinders said:
@Vince didnt think of a boom, that might be the next upgrade to this, nice idea. I need to track down a R47 inductor for this water damaged inductor, all teh fets seem fine and i cant see any other other damage around the damaged inductor, so fingers crossed i might actually have fixed something :p
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Boom and a modified ring light are game changers, you get space to actually work! Also the ring light makes a massive difference to image quality on these cameras so well worth looking at.

I quickly recapped a GG last night, It is mad really I can recap one of these in like 20 mins these days.





Full mod I can do in sub 1 hour which is mad when I look back at my GG at the beginning of the thread that took me like a day and a half to do :cry:
 
Tinders said:
@Vince didnt think of a boom, that might be the next upgrade to this, nice idea. I need to track down a R47 inductor for this water damaged inductor, all teh fets seem fine and i cant see any other other damage around the damaged inductor, so fingers crossed i might actually have fixed something :p
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How you getting on with the troubleshooting? I tend to start by checking all the inductors on the rails for shorts then once you work out which rail has the issue remove the inductor to see which side of the circuit the short is on, normally that leads you forward towards the power stages and to the fets, with the fets you can generally just check gate to ground which I found works especially well on vcore rails. What card is that? Generally I have much better luck on AMD cards :D

On AMD cards especially polaris there are tricks to bypass the bios chip to test for failed software bios side on "bricked" cards. Have resurrected quite a few failed flash mining cards using bios bypass wires :)
 
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Its an old R480 that got some water on it when i left a glass of water on top of the pc.....the rest was history!

I need to get some smaller probes for my fluke, its an old 83 mk3, the probes for modern smt stuff are a touch big. One of the inductors is visibly damaged, so im using that as a start point.
 
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Vince said:
Right hand one sounds like it just needs a replacement joycon thumb stick, nice easy replacement that is... the second one sounds like the rail / pins on the rail have issues, 9 times out of 10 its just some corrosion in the connector, some ipa and a toothbrush will often sort it.
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excellent, i'll try the clean first.. see if that makes a difference.

Thanks.
 
No pokemon mini party, you are not quite ready for the trash bin in the sky just yet!



14 jumpers on a heavily corroded board but it lives to play pokemon party for some more days! All I need to do is clean it, scrape back a few more areas just to make sure its not going to fall apart in a week, I have already neutralized the rust so hopefully its just a case of masking it and buttoning it up :)
 
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Vince said:
Right hand one sounds like it just needs a replacement joycon thumb stick, nice easy replacement that is... the second one sounds like the rail / pins on the rail have issues, 9 times out of 10 its just some corrosion in the connector, some ipa and a toothbrush will often sort it.
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Right i've had a look at the connector and it looks ok to me.. i've tried to take a photo,

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apols for the poor image, I don't have a microscope so had to take on my phone, but they look pretty clean and straight to me.. I will give them a scrub when my IPA arrives, and test it.. but do you have any other ideas?

p.s. I was also told at the weekend that a shoulder button on a different controller also doesn't work. :(
 
SimonRigga said:
Right i've had a look at the connector and it looks ok to me.. i've tried to take a photo,

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apols for the poor image, I don't have a microscope so had to take on my phone, but they look pretty clean and straight to me.. I will give them a scrub when my IPA arrives, and test it.. but do you have any other ideas?

p.s. I was also told at the weekend that a shoulder button on a different controller also doesn't work. :(
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Shoulder button is common, they rip off the board taking the traces with them. Normally you can scrape a bit away, make some new anchors (even steal a button from a lite donor or something) and away you go.. I showed a repair on one of these just a bit back here: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...d-console-repairs-mods.18940033/post-36365754

So on that joycon it will connect to the switch and work wirelessly etc but doesn't charge when connected to the console?
 
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