ddf200 No.13697706
Do any of you do repairs or any sort of modification on hardware? It's been a hobby/job of mine for a few years and I've had a lot of fun doing it, even just simple stuff like capacitor replacements.
Do you do any repairs on hardware frequently? Is there anything you're trying to fix?
0880c7 No.13697718
>>13697706
I fear I'll break anything I try to fix, best thing I've done is customize a fighstick
>inb4 someone screams NOT VYDIAA!!!!1!111
52a5bb No.13697732
>>13697706
I added S-Video to my model 1 Genesis, which sufficed until I got my Ikegami, and then I built breakout boxes for pretty much every console I own.
ddf200 No.13697737
>>13697718
I think the best way to get over that fear is to start with very simple things, things which will teach you the concepts and properties of more advanced stuff. A simple thing to learn soldering would be things like replacing cartridge batteries. Once you learn the quirks of handling a soldering iron, lifting or even solder sucking, you can move on to more advanced repairs.
Personally I do a lot of console modding and pay careful attention to new techniques or ideas coming from that scene.
8cdf7e No.13697744
so you did some soldering
congratulations
go to an eletronic engineering school if you want to know what is hell on earth
ddf200 No.13697749
>>13697744
I'll just stick to comparing values with a multimeter, I don't want to be considered an engineer, just to have useful and applicable knowledge
52a5bb No.13697761
>>13697732
Oh, and I installed my own NESRGB board
ddf200 No.13697770
>>13697761
which one did you get? I've been considering doing this for a friend but I'm not finding a wealth of information on an RGB board.
9eb428 No.13697819
tempted to get a single board computer and make a media center with it but I don't know which one to get. Pi is the obvious choice but i seem to remember they were related to GG in some way, can't remember.
I also have an old laptop that probably need to come out of its case and become a sudo-desktop pc. bit of a wood fag so might try mounting it inside a hipster homemade case. but will probably just turn out like pic related
52a5bb No.13697831
>>13697770
I used Tim's board, with a standard PPU.
6d1b5d No.13697840
>>13697744
>go to an electronic engineering school if you want to know what is hell on earth
Do tell
8cdf7e No.13697866
>>13697840
it aint legos anon
aad097 No.13697930
>>13697840
So you like maths?
Here have two scoops
2d0a19 No.13697931
>>13697819
>Pi is the obvious choice but i seem to remember they were related to GG in some way, can't remember.
https://archive.fo/rH5xs
70540c No.13697970
@#13697706
I would never bother fixing stuff I can always just go ahead and buy something new instead. Why waste the time and effort when new is better?
7ddecd No.13697974
>>13697970
Prepare to be bullied
9eb428 No.13697983
>>13697931
ah yes that's the one. glrobler grearters btfo again. did we ever find out if that was the Pi foundations official stance or just some intern running the twitter opinion?
>>13697970
Good goy. hope you got your free upgrade to windows 10!
aad097 No.13697996
>>13697970
Go back to shitter
160e2e No.13698002
>>13697737
I remember finding source code online for a wii modchip. It ran on and old 12c508 pic chip.
Thats a 30 cent pic chip.
Was really easy to wire in because it just communicateddown the open serial port.
c34e2b No.13698013
>>13697840
Remember those sine wave equation you solved in Calculus?
Now you can simulate it in RL!! with added explosion and electricity induced fire
7593ef No.13698025
I did my keyboard but that's just soldering on switches
aad097 No.13698031
>>13698013
Don't forget about the "is the cap charged?" game
9077e2 No.13698073
>>13697840
Do you like spending countless hours on studying and homework to only find you're an idiot because there is an easier way to do it, and you were doing it wrong to begin with? That's generally what it feels like, and when thousands of dollars are sucked from you each semester, it really hurts. And these past few weeks at my university have been rough for many of my peers and me. In summary, there have been several midterms in a short span of time, and it's about this time that professors also drop some of the hardest assignments of the semester, so good time management is pretty challenging. If you also have a job while doing this shit, it becomes exponentially more challenging because 20+ hours of working on school is now dedicated to work. But I swear it's all fun. I'm only losing my sanity and hair at a slow rate.
87c129 No.13698080
>>13698073
>to only find you're an idiot because there is an easier way to do it, and you were doing it wrong to begin with?
This is basically my life.
2d0a19 No.13698091
>>13697983
>did we ever find out if that was the Pi foundations official stance or just some intern running the twitter opinion?
they never retracted anything they said so I feel it was indeed their official stance
460b70 No.13698212
>>13697931
Aren't there some competing boards that are basically compatible, but more powerful than the Pi anyway? Mine's damaged in a weird way so that it doesn't work on my PC monitor but is fine on a TV, so a replacement would be nice
fde886 No.13698236
>>13698073
>job
>college
How many hours of class do you americans have weekly? In my country classes last for between 30 and 40 hours each week. Getting any sort of job would put you well into 60 hour weeks in the very least.
a1c752 No.13698240
>>13698212
Look up the asus i think its called Tinkerbox? They claim it can stream 4k and play older games at 60fps on it
160e2e No.13698260
>>13698212
The beaglebone is objectively better than the pi in every way.
Except the pi compute which is a really awesome concept (embed your SBC in a ram stick) but that has no good applications.
460b70 No.13698413
>>13698240
>>13698260
Yeah, those both look like good options.
>>13698260
Weren't they trying to sell the compute module for some kind of industrial applicatiions?
58300c No.13698425
>>13698236
I only have a total of twelve credit hours this semester, which is three classes, but I typically spend an additional four to six hours each week for each class which totals anywhere from 40 to 70+ hours spent each week on school. I also work because I gotta eat once in a while and spend money on stupid shit like rent and school.
I don't have much free time anymore.
aad097 No.13698471
>>13698413
If you're on a tight budget you could get an Orange Pi, which is around 10 bucks cheaper than a raspberry (at least for me) and a bit more powerful.
0a0462 No.13698484
Odroid > Rpi
I had seen it recommended over the pi here when GG was still relevant. I got more info from lakka.tv for setting up an emulation box for my tv.
My cucked redditor brother has an Rpi3 and it chokes on anything requiring more than Mario Kart 64. He had to overclock it, but now it runs fine mostly. Still some hiccups.
I have an Odroid C2 running Lakka and a C1+ running LibreELEC. Since C2 isn't listed in their chart, I'll say that it can handle N64 games at full speed that I can tell. C1+ can handle 1080p h264 and h265. Hi10p is fine. ASS subtitles are good. There are encodes it can't handle, but you're probably unlikely to run into them. If you want 4k or something, I'd look around on OpenELEC or LibreELEC forums to see what other people are using.
There are other boxes not supported by Lakka, so see what the media software you're going to run supports and compare those, also check the forums for unofficial ports if you want.
I just dropped the Lakka link because it had a good breakdown of some common ones and was helpful to me.
If you go with Odroid, do know that C1(+) and possibly even 2 may not play well with some micro SD cards. If you can't find a working card, it may be easier to just buy their eMMC module and a compatible micro SD to USB card reader. Had no issues booting from them, whereas SD was slow to boot or not at all. Not sure about their more powerful boards.
aad097 No.13698538
>>13698484
Have you tested MHFU for the PSP?
be2b36 No.13698578
>>13698073
>Do you like spending countless hours on studying and homework to only find you're an idiot because there is an easier way to do it, and you were doing it wrong to begin with?
Buddy i feel you. This is me in my analysis and algebra classes on 3 hours of sleep and 50 hour work weeks. I just had to give up eventually because bills needed to get paid and fuck if you're going to learn reverse induction on no sleep. Before that fag pops in, algebra in higher math is number theory and related shit
ecbd47 No.13698589
>>13698425
My numbers seem off. I'm attributing that to my lack of sleep this week.
160e2e No.13698605
>>13698413
>Weren't they trying to sell the compute module for some kind of industrial applicatiions?
Yes, and from that perspective its pretty innovative.
You just add a ram slot footprint to your design and you only wire up the features you want to use.
84979c No.13698728
>>13697970
>@
you have to go back
fde886 No.13698838
>>13698425
I know that feel anon. I've had 30-40 hours week of *classes* weekly. This does not include time spent on writing lab reports and studying tests. Oh yes, the tests. Spam of tests from every single subject every 5th week or so because why not? Having started 9th semester of this shit you eventually stop caring, but this is soul crushing.
de4c8f No.13698906
I want to solder new mouse switches, mine are starting to double click. But it's not worth me getting a soldering gun and knowing me I'd fuck up.
160e2e No.13699444
>>13698906
>soldering gun
MFW Americans and their guns
If you shoot your mouse with a gun its likely to function even worse.
But in all seriousness, if you whack your mouse buttons quite hard it can fix bounce issues but they will come back after some weeks.
9f0577 No.13699466
>>13699444
You're joking right?
5c9c42 No.13699498
>>13698906
Seconding this question, if one wanted to do small time shit and just learn how to solder how do you even get into it?
160e2e No.13699509
>>13699466
On the first part yes.
On the second part no. It fixed my steelseries mouse and I was able to use it for about 5 months before it came back.
7e7abb No.13699564
I've been opening up hardware since 5 or so, starting with Genesis controllers for cleaning and maintenance. Also opened the system itself to fix the power slider that was not moving properly one time.
Back then opening systems was easy, just a bunch of screws and pop goes the cover. Now things are considerable more annoying, and shit like Triwing and Pentalobe screws (goddamn, Apple) make it even more of a pain.
Smartphones? Better just give up, almost every phone is now glued together. My old 2009 android phone is dead easy to open, however. Replacing the screen takes a couple minutes at most.
>>13699498
Soldering is easy once you get the hang of it. Start with big components. When you start working with the smaller surface mount type components you'll want a fine tip iron and some good hand-eye coordination.
A 'third hand' (metallic tool that has clips for you to set items on) can be a godsend so you have both hands available for use.
Here's a quick comic style soldering guide: https://mightyohm.com/files/soldercomic/FullSolderComic_EN.pdf
160e2e No.13699610
>>13699564
>Soldering is easy once you get the hang of it. Start with big components. When you start working with the smaller surface mount type components you'll want a fine tip iron and some good hand-eye coordination.
As someone who solders surface mount packages daily I always tell newbies to avoid a very fine soldering iron tip.
I do QFN and TSSOP packages with a big wedge tip.
With the proper technique and correct use of flux you can always do a better, quicker job with a pretty large tip.
I also recall Dave Elliot from EEVBLOG making similar comments about newbies using really small conical tips and wondering why things are so difficult. Its because you have shitty heat transfer.
d207cd No.13699680
I modded a couple consumer Trinitron CRTs to accept RGB video from the PC, it's pretty hard and complicated compared to buying something like an Arcade VGA and / or making some conversions to end with 240p through S - Video, but in the end it looks better and i saved the money.
I also made my own hitbox for fighting games, it looks really ugly btw since i made it with mdf as a kind of a prototype, but i don't think i'd be much better at doing it in acrylic so it stays like that.
a01ed2 No.13699776
I heard its a good idea to coat the tip of the soldering iron before actually soldering anything. Is it true?
8310af No.13699789
>>13699776
Yeah it's called tinning. It helps the solder slide off and pool on the pad.
ddf200 No.13700532
>>13699776
not the iron, but tin the pad you're heating up. It helps relieve whatever you might be removing. Also use liquid flux.
8d91c8 No.13700891
Yep I did some repairs on a 3ds, and a gamecubes, by "repairs" I mean opening and cleaning the dirty as fuck 3ds and fiddling with a multimeter and a potentiometer in the gamecubes, pretty easy stuff overall, never had to solder anything.
ddf200 No.13701103
in relation to repairs, I just diagnosed 3 CRT monitors. I think I have two junk tubes, but one working one that appears to be stuck in a resetting loop. Going to inspect internally. 2 of the bad tubes which need rejuvenation are both hitting 65K hours. Fortunately, from 3 crap ones I can undoubtedly assemble one working set. Tube issues are such a pain, rejuvenation isn't permanent and in some cases can result in absolute failure by burning up the emitting surface of the cathode. I imagine these fine pitch AGs will just crap themselves out. May just resell for parts or something.
7ffff9 No.13701155
>Finally find a laseractive
>MFW opening this thing
I think I have to send it out to someone who knows what they're doing. Shit, there's 100 capacitors ALONE inside this thing to replace before I even get to real repairs. who the fuck designed this thing.
ddf200 No.13701184
>>13701155
makes me ill looking at it. Last console I cracked open for maintenance was a PS4, and whatever your criticisms are about the system itself, the actual design of the thing is just fantastic. I never had such a joy disassembling a console before.
d207cd No.13701196
>HDD melts with all my precious curated hand picked porn and doujin collection that took years to amass
>Do the research
>Get an identical PCB in hopes just replacing it works
>It doesn't
>I know what i have to do, i need to replace the motor controller chip in the original with the working one from the new PCB
>It such a fucking hard to do micro soldering procedure that it's been sitting on my desk for 3 years while i figure out a way to do it without fucking everything up
b94289 No.13701223
>>13701196
That is the future of all porn anon. It was never meant to last forever.
31c165 No.13701240
THOSE FUCKING NINTENDO SCREWS, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU NINTENDO.
aad097 No.13701252
>>13701240
They don't want dirty gaijin meddling with their top tier electronics
d207cd No.13701254
>>13701223
No, its right there, i just have to find the cure ;_;
ddf200 No.13701257
>>13701252
most of what I fix is nintendo shit, I think the only system of theirs I've seen without issues is the n64 - but that has a controller that destroys itself with regular use.
31c165 No.13701258
>>13701252
If you've ever opened an SNES, you know they really don't want you to repair the unit.
e36e53 No.13701260
>>13697718
can't break something twice, if it's already not working
ddf200 No.13701262
>>13701254
try formatting the new hard drive you got with the same file system, then swapping the controller board.
3bd6ef No.13701268
31c165 No.13701271
>>13699610
I can't solder at all. I feel retarded knowing the best I can do, someone else can do it in like a second. I have no fucking clue as to how the hell do they do it.
aad097 No.13701281
>>13701271
Just buy some cheap DIY kits from Amazon and eBay and practice.
31c165 No.13701288
>>13701281
I have a really good soldering kit already. I'm just too retarded to solder properly.
cc40d4 No.13701305
>>13698212
If you just want a retro console, the OrangePi PC Plus is a great option. They're also cheap as fuck on Aliexpress. Look up "retrorangepi" con (((youtube))) if you're interested.
aad097 No.13701308
>>13701288
I was talking about stuff like this, build many of them, you'll get better at it.
31c165 No.13701318
>>13701308
Ah, those. Thanks for the tip, anon, i'll see if there's anything interesting.
dab1b5 No.13701319
ddf200 No.13701322
>>13701288
its easy. Put the iron on the pad. push the solder into the iron. Pull away the solder, slide the iron off.
ffbebc No.13701351
>>13701331
Now what the fuck is that?
ba0e14 No.13701356
>>13697828
Pic 1 why and how would heat escape the rig? Seems like a house fire starter. Pic 4 is a little disturbing, but 3's waifu case seems like a nice idea. If it doesn't melt them that is.
4e2f63 No.13701357
>>13701331
lmao just weld another bolt to it and unscrew it
aad097 No.13701358
>>13701319
I prefer to have it expose with four big iro… lithium-ion batteries
6c20f2 No.13701368
>>13698906
You can generally repair microswitches on the spot as well, without desoldering them. If you can get the top off, remove the leaf and restore its bend, that'll fix it right up.
It is a fiddly process, though. The spring is very small and thin, so it's hard to replace and easy to make a sharp bend which may ruin it completely. Took me two attempts to get it to feel right. The first one fixed the double click, but it ended up too light compared to the other mouse button. Second one got them on par again.
I've replaced some jelly bean components in some other electronics. It's a decent enough skill to have, as sometimes capacitors and the likes give out.
>>13701351
Tri-wing. Seen them on Nintendo's systems.
31c165 No.13701371
>>13701357
Huh, never considered this option.
ddf200 No.13701375
>>13701351
tri-wing
>>13701331
*buys a $8 screw driver set*
267626 No.13701380
>>13701331
Just drill it out and replace the screws.
b94289 No.13701383
>>13701357
>welderfags ruining everything
31c165 No.13701387
>>13701380
What if I solder the screwdriver to it?
267626 No.13701428
>>13701387
You'd probably either ruin the screwdriver or break the connection. Either way, it's a stupid thing to do. Unless you meant soldering an loose screw to a screwdriver. In that case, go nuts.
5f0418 No.13701827
>>13701383
currently going for volunteer position, feelsgoodman
267626 No.13702008
>>13701827
>he does it for free
5f0418 No.13702166
>>13702008
>he doesn't know about the demand for good welders in this cucked generation
267626 No.13702221
>>13702166
I know the demand, it just seems pointless to waste your time working for free when you could be trying to get your foot in the door wherever you can.
5f0418 No.13702238
>>13702221
Better for your resume because they don't put you in bottom tier shit jobs that you have to work up for a while to advance out of. They won't hire a new guy to do any pipe work which is where a lot of the higher paying jobs go to.
93e2cc No.13702423
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>13701254
>embed
>>13701375
>$8
Come on, they're like $2 from China.
I have an EE degree. What have I been doing since I acquired it TEN YEARS AGO? Working for a fucking phone company, assisting retards who make in one month, what I make in a year. It's hell.
ed6489 No.13702471
>>13697706
I have a solder tool, but the only thing I used it for is modding and repairing headphones. It's convenient to add a 3.5mm jack into a pair of headphones that would normally not have a detachable cable.
f682ec No.13704554
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>13697706
>Do any of you do repairs or any sort of modification on hardware?
Depends on what is considered a repair. I like to open up controllers to clean them from time to time, and I recently took out the shoulder buttons on my DS and put them back in because the L-button wasn't working (it's working now), or the one time I replace the screen on a smartphone. I think my first time opening a console was when my Wii's drive was making weird grinding noises. I really regret not knowing anything about electronics, when I open up a device it's all just hieroglyphs to me. The only electronics-related thing I know to so re-attach wires (just did that a few days ago) because it's obvious where the problem lies.
910686 No.13704711
>>13701254
save it while you can anon. magnetic impressions don't last forever
a3aad6 No.13705088
>>13701357
>tfw have seen people confused on how to get a bolt out with a stripped head
>tfw I told them to weld a fucking nut onto it
>mfw considered a genius for a week
9302ae No.13709180
>>13701196
>Get an identical PCB in hopes just replacing it works
You need to put the old eeprom chip in the new pcb.
fb2689 No.13709250
I try to fix my controllers and peripherals when I can. I also always buy cheap stuff so it's no big deal if I do seal the coffin when trying to fix it.
>>13698073
So that's why electrical engineers are either bald or prematurely aged. Got it.
t. be finishing the college meme in a couple semesters with a degree in IT & computer science minor
6d1b5d No.13711096
I've got 10 og xboxs lying around that I got from an opshop closing down. I want to do the memory upgrade and see if I can get virtua cop 3 working. Are there any retard proof guides for this?
e507d6 No.13711121
>>13705088
Okay and how do you do it without a welder?
My best trick was to just get a drill and drill out the whole screw.
49d063 No.13711166
>>13711121
If the screw isn't recessed pliers work pretty well. Rotate them around to score the head for more grip if it's tricky, but it will work for most small screws.
52a5bb No.13711255
>>13698031
Exactly why I fear opening my surround sound's amp. Has a pair of caps the size of fucking coke cans
52a5bb No.13711269
>>13701368
Those aren't Nintendo Tri-Wings. Nintendo Tri-Wings are symmetrical.
a3aad6 No.13711285
>>13711121
Depending on the size of your object you can just use a screw extractor and not ruin the threading.
4adb5e No.13711556
>>13711096
I heard upgrading the RAM causes more issues then it solves.
a3bd43 No.13711999
>>13701368
Oh god, I remember trying to fix my old Razer mouse. The flat part of the switch dislodged, and I didn't have tweezers so I tried MacGyvering it with a pin and some sticky tack. I spent like a day trying that, and it almost worked, but I ended up getting tweezers and spent another hour or so before I finally got it working again.
That Razer mouse lasted like 5 years before the laser on it finally died.
7e7abb No.13712049
>>13709180
This. Pretty much all Seagates need this. Some Samsungs can be board-swapped with no soldering trickery involved.
I got right now FOUR terrible Seagate ST1000DM003. They fucking suck.
>First one is actually still working, pulled it out of a client's machine, cloned it to a new drive before it died out, and acquired it for parts
>Second one started failing and I managed to clone it just in the nick of time via ddrescue. It finished copying all the readable parts and only the zeros were left - point where the drive just gave out. Successfully cloned the resulting image to a new drive, this one was one hell of a lucky break
>Third one is dead. Got it some time ago but back then didn't look into depth at it because this was the first unit I got of this model and had nothing known about it
>Fourth is my 'current' case. Drive is on the verge of dying - barely gets to be recognized maybe in POST and then fucks up. Using an external enclosure helps getting it recognized, but it reads so slow that ddrescue would take about a year and since the drive dies out every few minutes it's a lost cause. I was able to dump a readable MBR from it but anything else is just garbage.
The logic boards in these drives are crap (they all get corroded easily), so first thing I tried was to swap the #1 board (good drive) with the #4 board. Swapped the EEPROM chips too. The result… Drive #1 still works perfectly and #4 does not. So at least I know the #4 board is fine.
Next step would be to either do a headswap or a platter swap. That'd be a first for me, but I do not have equipment for this kinda thing. At this point I just told the client to investigate for a clean room laboratory type service. I don't think there are any here, though.
a8aae6 No.13712703
>>13698031
the ol' tongue test eh
a679be No.13713351
>>13711121
Usually a flathead screwdriver, jam it in real good and it will do just fine and then find a new screw.
T. Carpenter-son who don't have time to weld shit on top of shit.
d8d9fc No.13713418
So rather than go to /g/ and bear their autism I though I'd ask here:
I have a "Media PC" setup, which consists of a Dell Optiplex 990, i5, 8Gb RAM, 500Gb HDD and a nVidia GT710 card. I want to buy a nVidia GTX 1050Ti 4Gb Low Profile for $219AU.
Is this a feasable and affordable solution to playing some decent games cheaply, or is there a better solution you can suggest? I only play Stalker, Spintires, ARMA II, The Bureau, Robocraft etc. so I don't need anything too fancy.
8a3bc2 No.13713425
I realize this may sound retarded but where exactly do you gain experience as a hobbyist on this stuff?
Just dismantle and try to fuck around with broken/cheap shit or is being a hobbyist difficult if you're not into it from an early age?
813258 No.13713447
>>13697706
I've had to re-cap my mobo twice, and I'm honestly shocked it lasted that long.
49d063 No.13713541
>>13713425
Yes, it isn't hard and the "only kids can learn stuff quickly" meme is bullshit. I'd say it applies much more strongly to languages, music and the like than technical skills. Modifying and fixing electronics is easy as generally you're just replacing/fixing parts, so you already have the part, or can read the information off it, remove it, get a new one and solder it in. Designing circuits is harder as you have to calculate resistance/impedance and other values and make sure it's in line with the ratings on components, if you have ICs and the like you have to go through the documentation, etc. But fixing stuff is piss easy.
The difficult part is probably diagnosing faults that aren't obvious (an obvious fault would be a blown capacitor, the top bulges) in the case of stuff like appliances a multi-meter is all you really need. As you're mostly going to be looking for shorts and open circuits, so can find the problem by process of elimination. In the case of electronics, most of the time if the problem isn't obvious when looking at the circuit you're SOL. You can maybe check larger components with a continuity tester to see if something is blown but if some tiny part buried somewhere is the issue you're likely not going to find it.
fbf557 No.13715139
>>13698538
Did so just now. I didn't fix the font not displaying, I don't play a lot of ppsspp, I guess it needs a fix? But it boots, FMV plays fine, and I ran around outside a bit without any problems. The Digimon World game does well too, so I assume it's fine.
6d1b5d No.13715231
>>13711556
I wouldnt be doing it for any issues, just to play virtua cop 3.
a6928c No.13715236
e07b8c No.13715340
>>13713418
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK
d8d9fc No.13715575
>>13715340
What, to /g/? I'd rather kick the chair than put up with that shit…
327f17 No.13715611
I've done a few mods/fix :
S-video and stereo modded a genesis model 1, Waiting for my 10 mhz crystal to be shipped so I can overclock
S-video a sega master system (identical to the genesis, it uses the same chip)
Flashed a sega saturn action replay so I can play backups
disabled the lockout chip on my nes
tried to install a xeno chip on my gamecube. I failed in a very embarrassing manner. ended up ripping up the solder pads, thankfully the console still work
I tried to fix a PVM 14 inch with a cracked board… ended up not working, but it was a good learning experience.
I have a game gear that need new caps, 2 PC engine CD rom 2 that are fucked up (no, it's not the gear)
>>13713418
just google "gtx 1050ti benchmark" and figure it out on your own
d8d9fc No.13715679
>>13715611
I know the specs, the ASUS card has the best OC speed, but I was wondering if there was another low profile option anyone else knows about, like an AMD option or whatever…
709644 No.13715821
>>13698073
If you can't solder a 31-pin molex blindfolded you ain't done shit son.
304762 No.13715829
after amassing a supply of og xboxes, I took the super good disc drive out of my dead xbox and popped into one of my not-so-dead xboxes, and then I just kinda fucked around with transplating hard drives and disk drives to and from xboxes for a bit
530ee9 No.13715871
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>>13699610
>Dave Elliot
Dave Jones
34815d No.13715914
>>13697828
>insulating a pc
7e7abb No.13717472
>>13715829
I have a bunch of Xboxes stored for about a couple years now already. Got to fix some of the simplest cases but for the rest I needed EEPROM dumps, which now I got a cable for.
DVD drives can be swapped around Xboxes without any trickery (thankfully, as these Thomson drives die quickly) but the HDDs require adjusting the keys - either the one stored in EEPROM or the key in the HDD itself.
If the consoles still boot it's an easy task to get these keys with any custom dashboard worth its salt, but if it does not boot then that's time for the serial cable.
Write down the serial numbers for each console you have and dump their EEPROMS for future use. Or just write back the EEPROM with the password for each one to all zeros and set every HDD you use from now on to that password, whatever works.
5f0418 No.13725523
>>13697970
Bumping this thread so more people can shit on this anon.
3c9cc4 No.13725694
>>13701351
It was a pretty standard screw in electronics. Mostly used for consumer shit transformers to make you think twice before opening one. Nowadays they just glue them shut, so you clueless DIY guys don't blow a fuse.
>>13697840
Electronic engineering is terrible. From a job perspective, It's overly complicated by restrictions made by PCB design, available chips and chip costs. You will turn into a soulless automaton if you want to get good at it.
>>13697706
I've been fixing everything fixable by myself for years. From "burned" dishwasher control boards and remote controlled ceiling fans, to laptops. I've also done some work on repairing/modding consoles. It's really fun as a hobby, but I would never make it my job.
34815d No.13725927
>>13725694
>dat webm
DELET TIS
3c9cc4 No.13726316
>>13725927
Why? It's the real deal. From official MSI youtube channel. before it got deleted
I've watched it many times, and I still find new disturbing details in it. Last one I noticed was that the CPU got pinned in a horribly bad angle in the zoom part on pressing down the latch.
Why not try to find all mistakes in that video? I have about 10 now. We could make a reverse-bingo out of it.
92f4cb No.13728204
>>13701155
Fellow laserdisc player owner here, these things are about as analog as it gets; which in a weird way makes things a little more complicated. I'm pretty sure fixes were easier back in the 90s because you could simply get a new board from a trashed unit or something, but now you're pretty much limited to swapping capacitors. For additional fun, each capacitor swap will slightly change the characteristics of the player, even if you get the same exact one! General rule is to get a backup player from a school or something, but it's not going to be as awesome as a LaserActive.
1857b4 No.13728266
>>13697828
Pic 1 is supposed to be gory, but I find it brutal as fuck.
>>13697840
Almost all but nu-age engineering majors are about staring at the abyss and hoping you make out of there alive just in time to be bossed around by some (((landwhale))) from L.A.
Imagine having to take about nine classes of different ways you could compute time and space itself only to get to one where you have to actually solder shit or program shit or study the inner workings of chemicals or whatever. If you're amerifat, you can at least claim it was a good investment.
4f200f No.13732957
>>13701357
Am I retarded?
That seems so obvious
4f200f No.13733011
>>13725694
Was that a magnet?