MachoNacho
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Hello there! I recently completed the DCDigital mod and everything was working perfectly! Here is a video I made on it (by the way, love all your work, Thank you!):
I started working on part 2 of the video series where I install a GDEMU, DreamPSU, and Noctua Fan Mod. I installed everything and again everything was working perfectly. I loaded the GDEMU with a few games and started playing D2. About 20-30 min in the picture totally went out randomly but the console was still on. I turned it off then turned it back on and still I have no image. Thinking it was the PSU I put the orignal back in and still nothing. Thinking maybe the GDEMU was bad, I put the GD-Rom back and still nothing. Then I reverted the console back to the original fan (ie i removed all the other mods except the DCDigital) and still no picture, even though the console turned on. So I looked at the ribbon cable and the pins and couldn't see any visible bridges so I attempted to touch up the solder joints to see if that would fix anything and still no image.
Then I noticed my wire from R603 to P2 was chewed up because it was close to a screw post and the screw ate away at the wire's shielding exposing the wire itself. So I replaced that wire with a new one and made sure those wires weren't anywhere close to the screw posts and still I have no image.
At this point I touched up the wire probably one too many times and damaged a bit of the ribbon cable (2 left most pads on the video DAC closest to the end of the ribbon cable). Those 2 points didn't seem to be used for anything except for support so i carefully cut them off since I didn't want them to short out any pins.
At this point I touched it up one more time and still no image. The DCDigital is still getting power because I can see it's wifi hotspot.
I ordered another ribbon cable just in case, but if you have any advice it would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Tito
I started working on part 2 of the video series where I install a GDEMU, DreamPSU, and Noctua Fan Mod. I installed everything and again everything was working perfectly. I loaded the GDEMU with a few games and started playing D2. About 20-30 min in the picture totally went out randomly but the console was still on. I turned it off then turned it back on and still I have no image. Thinking it was the PSU I put the orignal back in and still nothing. Thinking maybe the GDEMU was bad, I put the GD-Rom back and still nothing. Then I reverted the console back to the original fan (ie i removed all the other mods except the DCDigital) and still no picture, even though the console turned on. So I looked at the ribbon cable and the pins and couldn't see any visible bridges so I attempted to touch up the solder joints to see if that would fix anything and still no image.
Then I noticed my wire from R603 to P2 was chewed up because it was close to a screw post and the screw ate away at the wire's shielding exposing the wire itself. So I replaced that wire with a new one and made sure those wires weren't anywhere close to the screw posts and still I have no image.
At this point I touched up the wire probably one too many times and damaged a bit of the ribbon cable (2 left most pads on the video DAC closest to the end of the ribbon cable). Those 2 points didn't seem to be used for anything except for support so i carefully cut them off since I didn't want them to short out any pins.
At this point I touched it up one more time and still no image. The DCDigital is still getting power because I can see it's wifi hotspot.
I ordered another ribbon cable just in case, but if you have any advice it would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Tito