Is my gamecube too hot?

[tom10122]

I just noticed today that my gc board gets pretty hot, the heatsink gets warm fast and if I take it off the heatsink the ibm chip gets too hot to touch within seconds of turning it on( I only let it run for maybe five seconds with no heatsink. ) is this normal? I trimmed my pcb but just minimal on one side with the gold part partway off, It didn't work at first so I filed it down and it works, I noticed that one of my ports has a pin shorted to the ground, I didn't disconnect it because it was too hard to desolder, another thing is I shorted the little silver capsule that keeps the time because I thought it was a fuse, never noticed the temp before .

Stole the pic from ashen but I shorted the silver thing by the controller ports not the other one

 

[Mr. Hooker]

that little

another thing is I shorted the little silver capsule that keeps the time because I thought it was a fuse

Thats your timing crystal, fix it.

clean off your cpu, gpu, 2 ram chip's, and the heatsink with a clean dry sock, then replace your "heatsink thermal paste".

 

[tom10122]

i'm assuming its important? can I just make it so it doesn't sort of do I need to replace it?

 

[Mr. Hooker]

make it so it doesn't sort

That should do it.
And without thermal paste, the heat from the cpu will not transfer to the heatsink to dissipate the heat properly. You could still use the pasty stuff on the stock heatsink for testing, but since it was broken lose you should replace it before closing it up when finished.

 

[tom10122]

Thanks! It's just the solder pads now I think it helped , although without the heatsink its too hot to touch , with it it just gets slighty above room temp but it might just be the heatwave, As for the thermal paste I am using the stuff that came with the gc

 

[nuke]

Do you have a fan?
If you don't, thats perfectly normal.

 

[tom10122]

No I wasn't running a fan at the time

 

[ShockSlayer]

You need a fan; the gamecube basically requires it.

 

[tom10122]

Yes I know m I was just testing my controller ports with no fan and noticed the heat, my fan is built into the case right on top of the heatsink

 

[GoatcheesePizza]

that little

another thing is I shorted the little silver capsule that keeps the time because I thought it was a fuse

Thats your timing crystal, fix it.

clean off your cpu, gpu, 2 ram chip's, and the heatsink with a clean dry sock, then replace your "heatsink thermal paste".

Is the cpu the mobo? and whats the gpu and what do the ram chips look like?

 

[tom10122]

that

another thing is I shorted the little capsule that keeps the time because I it was a fuse

Thats your crystal, fix it.

clean off your cpu, gpu, 2 ram chip's, and the heatsink with a clean dry sock, then replace your "heatsink paste".

Is the cpu the mobo? and whats the gpu and what do the ram chips look like?

The mobo is mother board, cpu is the bigger silver square, the gpu is the smaller silver square, the two ramchips are the black rectangles

 

[Ashen]

cpu is the bigger silver square, the gpu is the smaller silver square

No.

 

[tom10122]

oops guess i got that backwards huh?

 

[Ashen]

Yar.