how'd you fry it?

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Mon May 23, 2005 9:55 pm

what are all the ways you fried your n64's? i want to make sure i know as much of what not to do as i can cause i don't have the $ to keep buying new ones

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Tue May 24, 2005 12:45 am

i personaly havent fried any yet but i hav destroyed on by drippping solder over 4 pins of the CPU and when i trieed to get it off i snapped a few leads

Warrior_Rocker · Post by **Warrior_Rocker** » Tue May 24, 2005 4:34 am

1st) Sending 12v into the 3.3v rail
2nd) When my internal batteries randomly shorted out
3rd) Soft Drink... need i say more
4th) randomly stopped working after moving cart plug
5th) gave it a bad look... still cant figure that out
6th) send 12v into gnd, 3.3v into 12v, and gnd into 3.3v... bad...
7th) taking it outa the case, and i was careful?
8th) another one that randomly stopped working
9th) pretty sure i overheated it, but not sure

*its not like i wanted to kill these, and since there only about 5 bucks a console or my policy, give me ur n64 ill buy u some pizza campaign..., ive learned a lot, like what to be super careful with, and remeber of all the consoles besides the ps2 this one is probably the hardest....

Post by **Triton** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:48 pm

1, 2 and 3) i was not very careful, at all! remember when working on a N64P treat a n64 board out of its case like 100 year old anique china that was used by a famous person in a famous place where somting histrically important happened! these things will fry at the drop of a hat! keep away from: people, carpet, bags everything! on a desk and grounded WHENEVER you touch them will be my policy from now on thats for sure!

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Tue May 24, 2005 7:37 pm

thanks

. i think i fried mine because it was my 1st time taking it out of the case and i missed some screws and used the wrong kind of screw driver on the heatsink and forced it off. BIG MISTAKE! next time i'll just leave it on

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:46 am

Also, an antistatic wristband is a must, the N64s are really sensitive to ESD.

Warrior_Rocker · Post by **Warrior_Rocker** » Wed May 25, 2005 8:56 am

they also dont like to be thrown at people too, or ran over w/ a lawn mower, next time ill be sure to use the leaf bagger, so at least i can collect the smaller bite sized componets from my n64