I recently picked up this untested console, but I think need to clean the cartridge slot. I'm pretty sure the PPU is fine, because the audio is also messed up. Depending on how much I wiggle the game in the slot, different songs and sound effects from the game play.
I was getting ready to sell this one after replacing the battery, and another problem appeared. The hold switch works properly, but it also locks whenever pressure is applied to the top left corner. What could be causing this?
The RV park I went to had a frogger machine, but I can't play it because I don't have any quarters. The place is completely cashless so I couldn't just ask the cashier at the front desk to give me some quarters for a dollar bill
I have an iPod classic 4th gen monochrome iPod, and it's making me go insane. I am on my 3rd replacement battery, and I keep having the same problem every single time. Here's what keeps happening:
The iPod acts as if the hard drive is dead instead of booting (image 1). Sometimes it shows that icon instantly, other times I can hear the hard drive trying to spin up and stopping repeatedly for a few seconds before it shows on screen. When I plug it into FireWire, it immediately opens the diagnostic menu, where I checked the smart data and ran a full HDD scan multiple times. I am fairly confident that the hard drive is not the issue. Plugging it into my computer over USB just shows a charging battery icon (image 2) and occasionally tries to spin up the HDD for a few seconds before it dies and tries booting again.
I replace the battery, and it boots instantly as if nothing ever happened. It won't charge over USB, but that's fine; I have a FireWire charger. I fully charge it with FireWire.
It works for a few days, and then dies again. I plug it into FireWire, and it automatically opens the diagnostic menu again. I leave it to charge over FireWire overnight. In the morning, I unplug it from FireWire and try booting it. It immediately shows the sad iPod icon again and I'm back to step 1.
This is driving me insane, and it's happened 3 times with 3 different replacement batteries in the past few weeks. I've tried buying from elite obsolete. I tried different brands on Amazon. Ice tried a random eBay seller. All of the batteries I've tried are doing this to me. I've also made sure that the batteries physically look different to ensure that I'm not getting all of them from the same faulty batch or something.
Does anyone have a solution? I'm close to just selling it for parts and giving up.
A few days ago, my Toshiba 27af44 started making a high pitched noise. It only seems to happen when the picture contains lots of light colors. I posted about it a couple days ago, but I didn't get many helpful comments. Before you say that it's normal, this is NOT the usual 15kHz tone from the flyback transformer. I used an app on my phone to analyze the audio, and there are two different tones around 8kHz that are not present when the TV is displaying nothing. What can I do to fix this? The 15kHz ringing is fine, but this new ringing noise is very distracting and prevents me from using the TV.
My Toshiba 27af44 just started making this very loud whining noise today. It's not the normal whine from the flyback transformer. It is similar, but it's extremely loud. I've had the TV for a few weeks and it's never done this before. Any thoughts?
I recently picked up a Sony SLV-N70 from a thrift store, but I don't think it's rewinding properly. When I press fast forward, it starts slowly. After a few seconds, the tape stops and switches to a much faster speed. But for rewinding, it never switches to the faster speed. Does anyone know what the problem might be?
I'm trying to sell a motherboard for an old iPod, but I can't list it. Instead, I keep getting this error. If you ignore all the unparsed HTML in the message, it seems to think that I'm listing it with an accessory, but I'm not. What can I do about this?
I bought a few broken iPods to fix, and I've been checking all the hard drives. This one says it has 180 hours, but only 48 starts and stops. Since the hard drive usually only spins up for a few seconds every few songs, how is this possible? Is it not reporting the data correctly?
I have a bunch of music I purchased on iTunes. I noticed that my iPod was skipping certain songs at the same part every time I played them. I passed it off as an aging hard drive issue, but that wasn't the problem. Today, I used the same computer that I use my iPod with to sync with my old iPhone 5s. When playing the songs on the iPhone, the same thing happens. Is this a problem with the files I downloaded from iTunes on my computer? Does anyone know what might be the problem?
It's 12:20 AM. This is on the fourth floor. Nobody has moved since I got to my car 20 minutes ago. I just wanna leave
If I buy an old iPod that only has FireWire and no dock connector, can I still sync it with my modern Windows computer? I want to use as few cables/adapters as possible, and I'm not sure if iTunes plays nice with all FireWire cards. If it's possible, is there a specific FireWire PCIe card I should buy?
I live in Massachusetts, and the package was shipped from Kansas. It was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but things get delayed like that all the time. Today I checked the tracking, expecting to see it at my local post office. HOW DID IT GO TO NEW MEXICO??
The picture isn't great (I'm using a $5 HDMI to composite converter), but I like it.
I bought 5 iPods (all 4th gen) to repair, and I haven't been so lucky. Unfortunately, the headphone jack flex cable connector on this one decided to break instead of coming out like usual (yes, I tried not to force it, and yes, I tried pulling it straight up and not to the side). I've heard some people say that iDemiGods is a good source, but all of their 4th gen parts are out of stock.
I got a bunch of broken iPods. Only one of them worked properly, so I've been plugging all of the hard drives from the other ones into this one. Instead of using it for music or photos, the previous owner used it to store a bunch of anime... and some porn
I just noticed my TV making a clicking noise when it's on. The set works fine, but I don't know if that noise is normal.
I usually record my gameplay on a VCR. Recently, I upgraded my TV to a set with a component input. I hooked up my VCR to record from the composite video output in the TV, but it only recorded in monochrome. To check if it was a problem with my VCR, I connected the composite output from the TV to the composite input on my old TV, where it also displays in black and white. Is this a problem with my new TV, or is it just because it's only passing one of the component signals to the AV output? The new TV is a Toshiba 27AF44 and the old one is a Toshiba MW20FM1.
Right now I have it wrapped in bubble wrap, in a 9x7x3 box, wrapped in bubble wrap, surrounded by crumpled up paper, packed in a 16x12x8 box. Is this good enough, or should I use a bigger box with more packing material? Thanks for your help!