Dead GC?

[Crazy Inventor]

Okay so a few months ago, when I was testing a Rev A GC for my portable, I plugged my test battery into it to power it and it stopped working. I have no idea what's wrong with it. When I press the power button the fan turns on and that's it. I measured the regulator with my multimeter and it's outputting the correct voltages but it won't turn on. I want to try and fix this by April (it's long because I have no idea what's wrong and how to fix it), because my school band has their trip to Boston and my friends and I want to bring the GC with us with something to do at night.

Thanks in advance.

 

[DefectX11]

Hmmm. By correct voltage do you mean 12v? make sure that the battery isn't over or under.

Also try and test with the original AC adaptor.

 

[lyberty5]

Happened to me, try this :

Test it with the wallpower

Use thicker wire for power

Make sure you're feeding 1,9V in the two spots labelled on the guides, and not only one

 

[SonyQrio]

It's your wire. Use THICK wire. Like 20 guage.

 

[Crazy Inventor]

No offense to anyone but your not understanding my question. I never used the battery in my portable, it was just to power it upstairs when I was testing A/V. And the wire was 18 gauge so...

Note: I tried posting here with my phone but if cut off. The battery was 12V and 7Ah. So i don't don't why it was killed two of my GC's but I never used it in the final product. The final version runs off wall power (the power supply is unmodified.)

 

[SonyQrio]

You're using the original reg?

 

[Crazy Inventor]

Yeah, I've done nothing to the console except take it apart and put it back together. I was supposed to be the console I used until it broke.

 

[DefectX11]

There's a bad demon in your house. Quickly, grab some holy water.

 

[SonyQrio]

That is really, really, really weird. All I can say is i'm sorry and don't use that battery again!

 

[Hackerbilly]

Same thing happened to me with like 3 of my gcs.
Now,I've got a half finished portable with no gamecube to go with it.
I had firgured out what happened to one of them through. The regulator that was
plugged into it was partically out and had fried it. IDK why the other 3 stopped working through...

 

[SonyQrio]

One other thought....

Are you sure the entire board is fried? Are you sure it isn't just the regulator that kicked the bucket?

 

[Crazy Inventor]

Not really sure, can I even test for that?

 

[SonyQrio]

1. Get a different reg and hook it up to the GC.
2. Use a multimeter and check the voltages coming from the reg.
3. Hook the reg up and see if the appropriate voltages are getting to the points on the capacitors under the board.

 

[Crazy Inventor]

My only problem is I don't have a spare reg and I'm not spending $20 on one on some website.

 

[SonyQrio]

I have one. I'll send it over if you pay shipping.

 

[Crazy Inventor]

It's alright, I'm not too worried about I still have my portable.

 

[SonyQrio]

Okay.