Fried NES - Fix?

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Fried NES - Fix?

Post by TomKStones » Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:19 am

I fried my NES. :facepalm:

Does anyone know a fix?

The LED comes on; but I get no Video / Sound.

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Re: Fried NES - Fix?

Post by Donalbain619 » Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:53 pm

The NES circuit board is actually pretty resilient. Unless you put more than 5 volts it should be okay. Do you have a game in? Is it in correctly? I don't want to belittle you by saying "HAR HAR U NO PUT GAME IN RITE!!", the cartridge connector can be very finicky.
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Re: Fried NES - Fix?

Post by TomKStones » Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:26 pm

What you mean more than 5volts?

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Post by Metallica Man X » Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:09 pm

The NES is powered through a 7805 regulator, so the mobo of it gets 5 volts to run from the power supply.
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Re: Fried NES - Fix?

Post by TomKStones » Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:22 am

How would you do more then 5volts.


I think the way that I fried it was; I had a switch. That I was adding to the system, but I accidentally put wire 2 onto wire three.

Thus having to grounds.

I'm new to electrical things; so my knowledge is vastly limited,.

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Post by nevermind1534 » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:03 pm

See if the 7805 is still outputting 5V with a load.
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Re: Fried NES - Fix?

Post by TomKStones » Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:10 pm

Eh?

I know that's the thing next to the HeatSink;

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Re: Fried NES - Fix?

Post by Life of Brian » Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:45 am

In order for us to help you, I have two quick questions:

1) Are you still using the original NES power supply or are you using something else?

2) Do you own a multimeter?
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Re: Fried NES - Fix?

Post by TomKStones » Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:50 am

1) Yes, I have a original NES Power adapter; from Australia, don't know if they are different to USA ones.

2) Unfortunately, no.

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Post by nevermind1534 » Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:06 pm

TomKStones wrote:1) Yes, I have a original NES Power adapter; from Australia, don't know if they are different to USA ones.
The only difference is that it accepts 240V, rather than the 120V that's used over here, and it has an australian plug.
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