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General Gaming / RE:Official "My GameCube is broke thread"

« on: January 19, 2005, 09:54:06 PM »

If you are having problems reading your games the first course of action is to always clean the laser. If you have already cleaned the laser and are still having problems the next step would be to try to tweak the laser. After time the laser may loser intensity and it will not focus on the disk information, this tweak will kick it up a notch, remember this it a temporary fix, it means your laser is dying if you have to do this

Step 1 remove the gamecube case, the fan and CD assembly

Step 2 remove the screws from the underside of the CD assembly that hold the metal shielding

Step 3 locate the tiny screw on the circuit board. There is only 1, you’ll see it when you look. Take a small Phillips head screwdriver and carefully turn the screw just a couple degrees counter-clockwise

Step 4 reassemble the gamecube without inserting any of the screws. You should be able to power on the system and check to see if it has improved. You will have to temporally hold down the lid switch so it will spin the disc it’s in the back right corner.

Step 5 did it improve? If not, adjust the screw we talked about again, if you adjusted the screw more then 30% of one full turn then your laser cannot be helped and it’s time for a new laser or gamecube.

If it did work great reinsert all of your screws and put your gamecube back together

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General Gaming / RE:Official "My GameCube is broke thread"

« on: January 05, 2005, 12:05:24 AM »

there is a voltage adjust screw on gamecube, i payed for this big long repair book, it shows you how to do everything, i can almost fix every problem with a gamecube now. email me at MZeroEW2@hotmail.com if you want to know more

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General Gaming / RE:Official "My GameCube is broke thread"

« on: January 04, 2005, 11:42:03 PM »

did you know with almost all DVD Roms (yes gamecube is a Mini DVD rom) they have laser voltages, take the PS2, the old modles seem to have a main problem, disc read error, an issue that sony knows about, but a really simple fix, inside the drive there is a voltage screw this controls the laser voltage, turn up the voltage and problem solved, i don't know if there is a voltage adjust on gamecibe since i haven't had any problems with mine, but it's worth look, i'll post a new message when and if i find out (planing on opening my cube to swap the orange led for a blue one, i'll let you guys know what i find)