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General Gaming / RE:GameCube struck by lightning

« on: September 06, 2003, 06:23:34 PM »

I found a place in my town that does repairs on GameCubes. He said it was a bad motherboard, and he replaced it from a trashed GC that they had in stock. It cost $35...not too bad.

He said to never keep the GC on carpet, and to keep it dusted. That explains the first GC going out, but the replacement GC was only 3 weeks old, on a wood floor and not dusty...so not sure what happened there, but we did get 2 blown motherboards.

If you need repairs, check out places that sell used games and consoles, or that advertise for DVD disc repair. That is how I found this place. They aren't allowed to buy parts from Nintendo, so they buy broken consoles to repair them.  

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General Gaming / GameCube struck by lightning

« on: August 31, 2003, 05:52:55 PM »

My 10 year old son has had his Gamecube for about a year. A month ago we had a bad storm and a few things in the house were zapped, even some equipment on surge protectors. My son's GC lost it's picture, but kept the sound. We bought a new one with insurance settlement money and now this past week another bad storm came along, and a few things were zapped - one of them being his replacement GC. It is the same problem, no more picture, just sound. The TV that it is attached to is just fine. We have tried multiple games, so it is definitely the console. Is there a fuse or a way to reset the game? We can't file this on insurance again because we will probably lose the insurance policy if we do it again so soon, and can't really afford to buy another GC right now. Any help would be appreciated!

Jennifer