Super NES Repair Question

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quickfingers818:

--- Quote from: Moviefan2k4 on February 20, 2014, 01:36:21 PM ---OK, so a freaky thing just happened, which I have no natural explanation for...

...the color is back on my SNES gameplay.

Like I said earlier, I have no knowledge of circuitry, so all I did was open the case and take some of the screws out to look at the motherboard. I didn't unplug anything except a silver box at the top right, and re-plugged it straight after. At one point I dropped it by accident, onto the dining room floor from about 4 feet up. There was a small hairball in the case, which I removed...but that's it.

I gave myself a headache with that pesky Eject spring, but short of a miracle, I honestly don't know how it was fixed. All I know to say is "glory to God", and leave it at that. :)

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Lucky you. Unfortunately, chances are if it acted up once its bound to start acting up again. I would probably minimize the amount of movement on the console and just let it sit stationary for as long as you can. you may have smacked something into place for it to start working.

bluedogrulez:
bit of a reach, but I'll ask anyway: did you unplug the power cord and then reinsert it?

I ask b/c that simple act allowed my N64 console to work after it went dead on me. Unfortunately, it did no rise from the dead (due to this simple trick) until after I bought a replacement console.

Moviefan2k4:
Every time I took it apart (it kept pitching a fit), I unplugged the power and AV cable so I wouldn't get zapped. The color's back, but the sound is now glitching every few minutes. I found a website based in Pennsylvania that will run a multi-point check and fix the system for $40.

e_brugal:
Don't you think that for those $40 + shipping you could buy a new one (just the console) and keep the old one for parts?

Moviefan2k4:
Since I know nothing about repair, keeping the old one would be pointless.

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