Fuses!(?)

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:20 pm

I have been thinking about why so many N64's are dying all the time, and I have come up with an idea.
Some of you may know how the PSone mobo fuse blows for no reason and needs to be jumped to make it work again. Well I think there might be a fuse of some kind that's blowing on the N64.
I am not sure where it is, but it's the only thing that makes sense to me.

I don't have a busted N64 right now so I can't test this theory. Can somebody volunteer to start jumping fuses on their busted N64?
I can help by suggesting what fuses to try, illustrated by a picture.

What are you waiting for? Let's do it to it!

Post by **gannon** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:17 am

nope, the only fuses the n64 has are on the controller lines.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:10 am

I wonder what would happpen if these two fuse-like things were removed?

Post by **gannon** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:16 pm

Those are capacitors.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:27 pm

Are you sure? They look too small to be capacitors

Post by **gannon** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:33 pm

yes I am. There are over 150 smt capacitors on the n64. Also, I looked over the board more closely, and I was originally wrong about saying that there are only fuses on the controller lines. There are also fuses on the chroma and luma video lines.
Fuses on the n64 are specified by the marking "FILx"

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:42 pm

gannon wrote:yes I am. There are over 150 smt capacitors on the n64. Also, I looked over the board more closely, and I was originally wrong about saying that there are only fuses on the controller lines. There are also fuses on the chroma and luma video lines.
Fuses on the n64 are specified by the marking "FILx"

Could those fuses be the cause of all these "dead" N64's? Seems like even if they did blow you would still have sound, so I doubt it.

And you were right those are capacitors, I looked at them more closely on my N64 and one end is on ground and the other is connected to the voltage in.

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:48 pm

the fuses used for the N64 are probably in the power supply, so when you're wiring directly to the board and you fry it, it's fried for good.....if I remember to, later I'll open up an N64 power supply and check it for fuses....if there ARE fuses in there, then perhaps we could just take 'em out and use them on when wiring batteries to the N64 mb....

Post by **gannon** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:52 pm

yeah, there are a few fuses in the n64 psu, plus it has that breaker type thing that automatically resets itself

gotchocolatemilk2 · Post by **gotchocolatemilk2** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:46 pm

you guys got to realize that the fuses are there so you dont fry the mother board so taking them out isnt the best idea

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:51 pm

gotchocolatemilk2 wrote:you guys got to realize that the fuses are there so you dont fry the mother board so taking them out isnt the best idea

Which is irrelivent since the n64s fry even with the fuses...

Maniac_Man · Post by **Maniac_Man** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:16 pm

i was messing w/ one of my n64s and one of the capacitators that is circled in red fell off, is there any way to replace those?

Post by **gannon** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:19 pm

You could solder it back on. The n64 should still function though without it.