View Full Version : has anyone had a console not work after storage?
Skyway_Recreation
12-13-2005, 05:06 PM
i was in my closet and saw my sega CD which stop working last year for no aparrent reason, it just won't power up. i put it away after i played a game of snatcher, and then went to bust it out to play some samurai showdown and it was dead. any others with similar experiances?
P.S if any one has a sega cd ver 1 that powers up, but the CD drive is broken, PM me casue im sure that the board that everything plugs into is shot and that's it, hoping the main logic board with all the processors is fine, and im sure my drive is fine.
KingCobra
12-13-2005, 05:24 PM
yes,
Atari 2600, sat for 10 years, dust
Atari 7800, sat for 3 years, Green tint to games.
Playstation, sat for a year, no power, won't fire up.
:(
Skyway_Recreation
12-13-2005, 05:28 PM
i hate when that happens.
s1lence
12-13-2005, 05:33 PM
Yes, the same system as a matter of fact. I was told its a fuse inside of the system that goes bad. I guess its right by the power supply once you disassemble the system.
The knowledge base has the info I believe.
Flack
12-13-2005, 08:24 PM
yes,Atari 2600, sat for 10 years, dust
I didn't know they could even go bad. I've picked up Atari 2600's in thrift stores for $1.50 that looked like someone used them as an ass cleaner and they still worked. The only two problems I've ever seen with them is the power supply dying or the video cable getting disconnected from getting yanked too hard.
Skyway_Recreation
12-13-2005, 08:37 PM
i couldn't locate a fuse inside it at all. i checked that out already. if you could link me that would be great!
heyricochet
12-13-2005, 08:39 PM
Like my saturn which died after I didn't play it for probably like a month or two? It was sitting there hooked up and then suddenly didn't want to read discs anymore.
I was playing some monopoly on my SMS back in the day when my mom and step-dad decided to go visit his parents ... 4 hours later I come back and it Just. Quit. Working. and it never powered up after that either.
CYRiX
12-13-2005, 09:48 PM
It was a sibling!
Pantechnicon
12-13-2005, 11:28 PM
I have a 32X that was working well last time I fired it up - perhaps a year ago - and now works only intermittently. Disassembled it. Cleaned all the contacts, reseated the cables. No improvement :?. So I just went out and found another one for $10.
Skyway_Recreation
12-14-2005, 12:07 AM
i would buy another sega cd, cept this one has HUGE centimental value, the story behind it is funny as hell but i don't think anyone would care to hear it :)
i would buy another sega cd, cept this one has HUGE centimental value, the story behind it is funny as hell but i don't think anyone would care to hear it :)
Sure we would, and when I say we I mean I wouldn't mind hearing it. Always up for a good laugh.
Skyway_Recreation
12-14-2005, 11:38 AM
YO s1lence! thanx for the tip! even though i have a model one. it had that same fuse! so i busted out my multimeter and tested the part, and instead of geting a reading of zero, it gave me the "open" indication so i ripped the fuse out and just bridged it and alive was my sega CD! ahh how happy i was i screamed at the top of my lungs YES! and then got screamed at by my mom. LOL
Mr.collection
12-14-2005, 11:45 AM
What was the fuse labled? Mine has a fuse blown clear off the board with the jacks. I think it says C28 or C27 something like that. But if i can bridge it that would be great cause I paid $1 for it.
Skyway_Recreation
12-14-2005, 11:45 AM
o and the story behind the sega CD was is this.
back in middle school around 2000 or so. i was all mopy about how my sega cd mk2 just broke casue it fell off the tv from a sibling. so i was talkin to my friend about it and he was all like "i have one" so i proceeded to ask him what type, and he said it sat under the sega, i was like!?!?!? and asked em where he got it and said his step dad bought it when it came out in 92. i asked him what he wanted for it and he immeditly said WEED. so the clever dude i am, i just went to my moms incense cabinet that she burns around the house and found some that smelled similar to well, you know. WEED i put a bunch in aluminum foil and gave it to him, and inturn he gave me a whole genesis, CD and 32x (he didn't even tell me those came with it) + like 20 games. i shit my self when he brought it to my house. any who. like 2 dasy later he comes up to me and says that my "SHIT" was awesome and he wanted more. i straight up laughed in his face and he looked at me puzzeld as hell. "that was good shit" o man that gets me to this day.
Skyway_Recreation
12-14-2005, 11:48 AM
the fuse is labeled f1 th C ones i think are capacitors. i could tell you which capcitors are which and you can buy them and replace them EZ i've done it a million times for equipment that has overloaded. what ever you do don't bridge a cap , it WILL fuck your shit UP! the fuse is a safe guard that can be bypassed but you run the risk of your system crapping out if anything ever spiked, but in my case my fuse just went bad from being so old.
Push Upstairs
12-14-2005, 03:46 PM
so the clever dude i am, i just went to my moms incense cabinet that she burns around the house and found some that smelled similar to well, you know. WEED i put a bunch in aluminum foil and gave it to him, and inturn he gave me a whole genesis, CD and 32x (he didn't even tell me those came with it) + like 20 games. i shit my self when he brought it to my house. any who. like 2 dasy later he comes up to me and says that my "SHIT" was awesome and he wanted more. i straight up laughed in his face and he looked at me puzzeld as hell. "that was good shit" o man that gets me to this day.
Sounds like your mom was keeping something besides incense in that cabinet. :P
Sanriostar
12-14-2005, 04:42 PM
I've got a Colecovision and a 7800 that have gone through that. The CV just gives me a case of the blankies and th 7800 works for a 1/2 second if I fiddle with the PS. Problem is, I hard-wired the 7800 onto the board 'cause the connectors were bad. Funny.
allsport11
12-14-2005, 04:59 PM
Chalk up another SegaCD. Mine was working fine until I packed it up one day nice and safe. Sat there for about a year until I pulled it out to give it a go. Powered up but wouldn't read any cd's. We might have a plague happening here. Maybe they were meant to be played with instead. :)
I have an SNES that went bad on me after storage. Because of the messed up screen I thought it just needed cleaning at first. I cleaned it up like new, and it still gives me a scrambled screen.
Oh well, I have another.
actofgod
12-14-2005, 11:32 PM
For CD-based systems that have been in storage a while, try running an audio cleaning CD on it (the ones with the tiny brushes). I had a Dreamcast that stopped reading discs after sitting on a shelf for a year and that fixed it right up. Perhaps the dust works its way down in there, or falls in when you open the lid. For cartridge systems I've seen oxidation/corrosion on the contacts after sitting for a long while.. takes a lot of cleaning to get them working sometimes. 32x would be harder since there's two sets of contacts on it. And I've had to bridge a sega cd fuse also :)
Raven1280
12-14-2005, 11:52 PM
The great Florida hurricans last year caused me to have to box up my consoles and leave the state. After I got back and unpacked my consoles my Turbo Grafx CD didnt work anymore. I guess its a small price to pay I could have lost my house.
Mr.collection
12-15-2005, 11:33 AM
ok i was wrong but it is still a cap(C23) i have a working MK2 so its not that bad
the dumbest system that went bad for me after sitting was a Saturn it would read games and i thought what goes bad after sitting a BATTERY so i replaced the memory battery and it worked