Sleepsalot
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[*]Hello fellows,
A week or two ago I took it upon myself to start portabalizing my old 2001 gamecube; opened it up, got down to it and was moving along at a nice pace. Then, I had no idea that there was a community for portabalizing until a friend told me that he had seen what I was doing online, and soon I found myself here, amongst a lode of experiential wisdom. Now I turn to you for support.
Now I've about reached the stage where I want to throw on a screen, and I had this car monitor available so I was thinking about using it.
I'm not sure where I got it, but the box said TFT 7" LCD Car Pillow Color Monitor. It's got nice buttons, too.
Now I set about to start wiring it up, but I realized that although the box picture had a full set of A/V inputs, the only cabling I actually had was this (I have no experience with this):
I'm assuming that red is the 12V, black is the ground, and blue is some sort of accessory cabling.
After countless fruitless attempts to even turn on the Dang thing (it wasn't the fuse; I waited ten seconds after pressing the power button -- nothing) I opened it up and tried to apply the voltage directly onto the connector, but I couldn't get a response.
Now, I'm not even sure if there's something wrong with the screen or whether I'm doing something wrong (I'm actually inclined to believe the latter and I want to believe the latter) but I know it's not the screen, because dropping 12V right across the screen turns it on fine. I'd love to know how to get this thing into my cube, but right now I'd even settle for some advice on how to get it to work.
A week or two ago I took it upon myself to start portabalizing my old 2001 gamecube; opened it up, got down to it and was moving along at a nice pace. Then, I had no idea that there was a community for portabalizing until a friend told me that he had seen what I was doing online, and soon I found myself here, amongst a lode of experiential wisdom. Now I turn to you for support.
Now I've about reached the stage where I want to throw on a screen, and I had this car monitor available so I was thinking about using it.
I'm not sure where I got it, but the box said TFT 7" LCD Car Pillow Color Monitor. It's got nice buttons, too.

Now I set about to start wiring it up, but I realized that although the box picture had a full set of A/V inputs, the only cabling I actually had was this (I have no experience with this):

I'm assuming that red is the 12V, black is the ground, and blue is some sort of accessory cabling.
After countless fruitless attempts to even turn on the Dang thing (it wasn't the fuse; I waited ten seconds after pressing the power button -- nothing) I opened it up and tried to apply the voltage directly onto the connector, but I couldn't get a response.


Now, I'm not even sure if there's something wrong with the screen or whether I'm doing something wrong (I'm actually inclined to believe the latter and I want to believe the latter) but I know it's not the screen, because dropping 12V right across the screen turns it on fine. I'd love to know how to get this thing into my cube, but right now I'd even settle for some advice on how to get it to work.