Picked up an AES 3-4 revision for cheap this weekend, but it looks like it may be toast?
Anyone ever seen this before?
Power on without cart, and I get a weird flowing pattern on blue, which occasionally (not always) ends up in purple:
http://sendvid.com/225cg6or
When I boot with a cart, I get a green checkerboard pattern:
http://imgur.com/a/OOtHm
I haven't done an exhaustive search for broken traces, if there are any, they're not obvious. Pressing on Neo-B1 changes the picture slightly, but I went through and tried to carefully reflow it. No change.
I don't get any text, and I'm hesitant to go to the trouble of throwing a socket on it to run the debug BIOS on it if there's something fundamentally damaged.
I washed the board and tested before/after with no change.
The shell is in amazing condition, and I'm kind of considering throwing my MV1C in it if I can't bring this board to life.
Any ideas? Thanks for your help!
Anyone ever seen this before?
Power on without cart, and I get a weird flowing pattern on blue, which occasionally (not always) ends up in purple:
http://sendvid.com/225cg6or
When I boot with a cart, I get a green checkerboard pattern:
http://imgur.com/a/OOtHm
I haven't done an exhaustive search for broken traces, if there are any, they're not obvious. Pressing on Neo-B1 changes the picture slightly, but I went through and tried to carefully reflow it. No change.
I don't get any text, and I'm hesitant to go to the trouble of throwing a socket on it to run the debug BIOS on it if there's something fundamentally damaged.
I washed the board and tested before/after with no change.
The shell is in amazing condition, and I'm kind of considering throwing my MV1C in it if I can't bring this board to life.
Any ideas? Thanks for your help!
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