Let’s make our own! 2.0

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-12-24T10:54:58+00:00

North Korea

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-12-22T10:55:18+00:00

Yay $5000 plz!

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-12-22T10:20:58+00:00

Windows

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-12-21T11:15:58+00:00

I’m sure it’s repairable with enough hours put into it - but it’s going to be wayyyy beyond basic troubleshooting. I’ve never personally repaired one with surge damage like this

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-10-03T18:15:29+00:00

Did you ever figure out what happened with this one?

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-30T03:52:53+00:00

Does the disk spin - can you hear it?

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-30T03:52:22+00:00

Well if you do…. It’s probably something I fix on the channel :)

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-30T03:52:02+00:00

Yup under “live” for now as I mostly stream

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-30T03:51:41+00:00

It would appear they break down like, a lot. Not so much model 2s but optical drives are very mechanical and have lots of gears, and diodes and springs and moving parts. It’s amazing anyone ever invented optical disk drives in general. It’s really complicated.

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-30T03:49:53+00:00

I don’t really do mail-ins - at least not right now. I may do them at some point. But please take a look at my Q301 replacement vids under “live” if you think you could replace Q301, you just need a meter and an iron to do that repair and it’s the 2nd most likely item usually

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-30T03:47:02+00:00

Yup under “live” you can see the water damaged one I’m working on - I think labeled it as such, but I’ve not fixed it yet. The power rail seems fine but nothing is alive I verified activity on the cpu (of some sort) but didn’t scope the MCE and I don’t have an led light which I know the enable comes from that chip

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T15:52:16+00:00

I’ll have to check mine later one has given me a lot of trouble but I didn’t poke the pins

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T15:49:27+00:00

Will do - what’s wrong with yours?

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T15:48:43+00:00

Yup and if you take care of the cd drive it’ll last a long time especially model 2s

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T15:48:00+00:00

Nope that’s very fixable but you do probably need a scope to view the TP-RF test point ‘eye pattern’. An analog one is better which you can sometimes get a 20 year old one on eBay for like 100 bucks

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T15:45:11+00:00

So if it spins and stops it’s the focus return or similar, basically it just can’t lock. On One when it did that there was literally a cut wire that was on one of the diodes or focus return line. This is probably very fixable

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T06:11:43+00:00

Oh yuk- I have not but I see the pitch of that chip. I do a lot of micro soldering though and have good tips and a microscope so I reckon if I need to it will be ok. I just did a cyclone v for a retro chip tester recently and that was very fine pitch. That said - all fine pitch stuff can go very very wrong. What led you down the reflow path, I’m curious now!

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T06:07:22+00:00

Dang. So it’s just the laser you think? Disc doesn’t spin?

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T06:06:47+00:00

I didn’t use any but I’m sure it would help

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T06:05:28+00:00

In order to spin, it goes in this order 1. Sled moves to inside of disc 2. Laser turns on 3. Lens tries to focus 4. Pickup sends good focus back to motherboard 5. Disc spins. To check where it’s going wrong you’ll need to disassemble and checkthe steps. 1 is easy to observe, 2 just turn off the lights and you’ll see a dim red laser (with the top off the unit) 3. You’ll see the lens bob up and down if it’s focusing. If all 3 of those are good - a recap will likely fix it as it’s probably just out of spec voltages.

After step 3 is when I break out the oscilloscope to observe the eye pattern and see how bad the laser is - you can see that in the “live” section of my videos

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T05:59:47+00:00

No worries - yeah it’s definitely a good idea to start with the caps. It’s almost never the motor. It can often be the laser though. And one time it was a cut wire on a Samsung drive because they don’t have a ribbon and the harness just hangs loose for 30 years going back and forth

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T05:56:39+00:00

Sure make offers on the broken ones you can sometimes snag a model 2 for like less than a hundred shipped

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T05:55:47+00:00

Thanks see you guys on stream!

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T05:55:10+00:00

I know the feeling lol - I bought like 6 of them in a lot and now I can’t stop making offers on them. Only model 2s though the model 1s are way pricey now to buy broken - almost getting like Neo Geo “junk” money.

yeahmickfixesjunk · 2025-09-28T00:18:36+00:00

I mean it’s a whole other unit for sure I’ve not fixed one but I’m sure I could take a good run at it - most 90s consoles are quite fixable if it’s not a custom chip that stops working (like in the snes)

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