Gamecube repair manual

You could de-solder it and replace it with an identical one, but there's no point; this works just as well. Now attach the other ends of the wires to the ends of the new fuse; I used small metal fuse clamps, but you could just wrap the wires around the ends of the fuse and tape them in place, or even solder them on.

Wrap the fuse in tape so it won't short out against anything, and place it in a convenient spot on the circuit board where it won't roll around too much.

Make sure all your connections are secure polarity doesn't matter, as a fuse is essentially a wire , and close the cube back up again; plug everything back in, snap[ and screw all the assemblies bakc on, et cetera, et cetera. Putting it back together is easy once you've taken it apart. Now that you have it closed up, plug it in, and try to turn it on.

It should function normally. If it doesn't turn on, you may have a bad connection. If it turns of for a second, and then blows out again, you used the wrong fuse, despite my warning. Open it back up and replace it with the right one. If it powers up normally, congratulations! You now have a working gamecube! To ensure the fuse doesn't blow again if there's another power surge, you should probably plug the system into a surge protector.

Not all GameCubes follow this. On mine an older DOL model , the fuse was a small plastic piece located on the bottom of the power board, between where the power-in connection and a magnetic capacitor are on the top.

Reply 6 years ago. Reply 4 years ago. Hopefully people still come here and will see this. I have two gamecubes that turn on just fine but it usually goes straight to "An error has occurred. I am unsure on what the problem is and how to proceed.

Any help is appreciated. Reply 5 years ago. Ill be playing and the game cuts in and out. Its still going but i cant see or hear anything.

At first we thought it may be because its older and my boyfriends laptop took too much power on the strip. Everytime we shut down the laptop it would work better but now it just gives me more black screen than the game.

What went wrong and how do i fix it? Thank you so much for this, I resurrected my Gamecube following these instructions, I've never even done soldering before! Thanks too, chairsgotoschool, my Gamecube is an older one with a tiny brown fuse on the power regulator board, labelled F1. The same method still worked anyway, cheers!! Thanks, fixed 2 gamecubes for me.

I know there are 3 gamecube types. If you dont want to buy a fuse you can just short the fuse, solder some wires to it or put some kind of clamp on it for testing purposes but if you leave it like that it will have no protection so if you short it or a surge happens you will likely ruin something much hard or impossible to fix.

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