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

@embalse - I do believe a big white box just turned up at the door - Can only assume this is yours. - Current timeline puts it in my queue Saturday earliest for diagnosis!

Edit: It is your machine and damn these machines are pretty.
 
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Gentlemen, some pics of some other stuff I fixed... Recent acquisitions etc... and some stuff just to waffle on about :)

So above I mentioned I had a caveman moment and blew up a JP wonderswan battery charging unit by plugging it directly into a 240v supply. This is the result of that, all fixed now but it made me jump!:





I bought an new hoover/blower thing! its awesome!



This stuff is really good for marks on cases, screens etc and isn't crazy abrasive.. good stuff!



I paid a lot... £70 for 2 wonderswan batteries and a charger all boxed... I researched how much this is... I feel like I got robbed in broad daylight.




Added Double dragon to the sms collection.. total win. And another 3ds pokemon case because I need to re-shall another 3ds... I did my one earlier in the thread so no point doing a full breakdown but its done now :)



All the wonder swans are fixed! I think I will keep the blue one... Might even give it an IPS... I have no reason to and will never play with it but aye its pretty cool.







Added this to my GBA, its total win.



I also got a new meter. Built in rechargeable batteries a pretty epic auto mode, is capable of capacitance readings... I really like it, so much better than my previous meter :)

 
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Vince said:
@embalse - I do believe a big white box just turned up at the door - Can only assume this is yours. - Current timeline puts it in my queue Saturday earliest for diagnosis!

Edit: It is your machine and damn these machines are pretty.
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Yep, it's mine. I did not open it when it came back from Asus, just stuck another label on it and shipped it to you....

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embalse said:
Yep, it's mine. I did not open it when it came back from Asus, just stuck another label on it and shipped it to you....

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Awesome couple of bits on early tomorrow, got a plumbing job to do for a 92 year old (dont ask) and then I have a nokia g10 screen replacement to do for somebody who runs the local corner shop (again dont ask) and then I should be able to get on with some bits in my queue :)
 
I started listing some stuff this morning and I think Pikachu is staying.... Can't bring myself to list the GBC as I dont have one lol. In other news I bought more GG's, more joycons... yea i know, i know... and more switches... and A hwfly lute just turned up (ordered because I have lots of lites and am bored).... anyway plumbing job finished, phone finished... I think we are ready to clear down the bench and start having a look at the queue :)
 
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Not gonna try picofly?
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I have all the stuff to do it but i wont lie I do not like the size and slightly ghetto look of the pico vs a proper dedicated chip sometimes it is about the aesthetics especially if its something I might consider selling. Given the hwfly is now like sub 25 on the lite there is little reason not to spend the extra few quid and do the hwfly.
 
Had a pretty busy day yesterday after some plumbing and running around like a mad man for most of the day I sat down, had some dinner with the wife and passed out shortly after. Woke up at about 8:30 pm and hadn't looked at the queue of stuff at all. So kicked off at around 9pm and hit up a few little bits... Had a lite in the queue for the hwfly treatment, really enjoyed the install, this isn't going to be so much a modding switch thread and there is plenty of cool stuff to come but since I haven't shared a lite mod (up until a month ago it wasn't worth the outlay) but now the parts are so cheap I couldn't help playing with a couple of my spare consoles :) This ones been in the queue for a couple of weeks, it was sold to me as a bsod unit for £40 and was originally a blue switch but it had clearly been dropped heavily onto something like concrete and had big gouges out of its case so its now a turquoise one with some mods, its good to see it done!







After that I had a customers Game Gear to look at! Quite a nice one, came as a no power unit a week ago, no red light boot, totally dead.



It got the full OG treatment and I have to say the OG screen is a nice one. Mind you I think the owner is looking to replace it regardless so back into the queue until screens turn up next week. Today at some point I intend to make a start on the Asus machine and at least probe it a little bit see if I can work out whats up with it.
 
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kakarott said:
Is that a custom theme on the lite?
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Yea it is :D It's one of my personal consoles... I didn't want to sell it because of the APU reball, I wanted to give it an extended test but that was 3 weeks ago! it's been working perfectly so I couldn't help myself. TBH I use my oled if im playing switch so this was more just to do the install and hone my skills / mess around with. I like to solder stuff as you know and ive seen people moaning about the flex setup online so thought id try it myself... I thought the flex setup was absolutely fine tbh the end result is super clean.
 
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embalse said:
Yep, it's mine. I did not open it when it came back from Asus, just stuck another label on it and shipped it to you....

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question did you update the thermal on this to liquid metal or was it like that from factory?

Edit: its a factory install but is everywhere.. probably from being taken apart before :( no worries lets get on with this bad boy :)
 
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OK... that was easy!



@embalse - Im going to have to replace a couple of filter caps and flow a few bits for longevity and to ensure a good fix.. but I need you to get some liquid metal to me if you can? I dont have any but this machine has it from factory :(

Asus, absolute shame on you... shame... a random dude in his shed spotted and fixed the issue within 7 minutes of opening the machine. Also the absolute savages made a mess of the inside and left it half assembled. Shocking service.
 
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Vince said:
OK... that was easy!

@embalse - Im going to have to replace a couple of filter caps and flow a few bits for longevity and to ensure a good fix.. but I need you to get some liquid metal to me if you can? I dont have any but this machine has it from factory :(

Asus, absolute shame on you... shame... a random dude in his shed spotted and fixed the issue within 7 minutes of opening the machine. Also the absolute savages made a mess of the inside and left it half assembled. Shocking service.
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Hi Vince. Thanks so much. Happy to try and get some liquid metal for you. Is this the stuff you need?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ther...-liquid-metal-thermal-paste-1g-th-021-tg.html

Let me know and I'll order it


Thanks


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