Hey Guys,
Getting the click of death issue on this neo geo aes 3-3 i snagged off ebay. Had no power fixed that and also ended up testing the sram by swapping it into another system (tested both cxk5864's and the cxk5814) . With the console facing towards me on the left side of the cartridge socket slot if i press down while the console is on it can change the color/display thats occurring and depending on where i press even the clicking will stop. Same thing happens if i turn the board over and try the areas right underneath. Also if i touch the pins for the cartridge slot it can affect the screen as well going from yellow to black and white and what not,. I've tried retouching up all the points on the cartridge slot with a bt of solder but same issue. i've checked the area and i am not seeing any breaks or cut traces. I'm checking on the neo wiki and looking at different things for click of death i guess i gotta start checking for continuity from all these chips. By any chance does anyone know where i should look first? or provide a clear route for me to take. I do alright with electronics/soldering but a lot of it is foreign to me. Below is the backstory of what i have done up to now if you guys want to read. But the sram and the bios have sockets on them now. thank you for your time.
Back story
Need some guidance if possible. Bought a neo geo off of ebay that wouldn't power on. Turned out the traces had lifted off some components on the daughter board. wired them up and used a 5v 3a plug (reversed polarity to have center negative) to power it on. With no cartridge if i recall i got a blue screen which meant everything was ok i thought. Bought fatal fury off ebay as well but couldn't get it to work. Next I tried removing the bios to add a socket (messed up some traces friend of mine repaired it). Tried the diagnostic bios but couldn't get anything on screen. just pixelation and all. At this time i decided to buy another neo geo (aes3-6) and found out the fatal fury game was actually faulty but i did order 2 other games art of fighting and samurai spirits and i can get them to work on the aes3-6 no problem but i get pixelation and the clicking of death it seems on the aes 3-3. I tried to remove the cxk5864bsp chip to add a socket and i messed up like 3 traces haha but friend again fixed them for me and i was able to put sockets for the cxk5864's and the cxk5814's. I ended up doing the same for the aes 3-6. Once that was complete i did some swaps and all the chips from the aes 3-3 worked fine in the aes 3-6 diag bios indicated all passed.
Getting the click of death issue on this neo geo aes 3-3 i snagged off ebay. Had no power fixed that and also ended up testing the sram by swapping it into another system (tested both cxk5864's and the cxk5814) . With the console facing towards me on the left side of the cartridge socket slot if i press down while the console is on it can change the color/display thats occurring and depending on where i press even the clicking will stop. Same thing happens if i turn the board over and try the areas right underneath. Also if i touch the pins for the cartridge slot it can affect the screen as well going from yellow to black and white and what not,. I've tried retouching up all the points on the cartridge slot with a bt of solder but same issue. i've checked the area and i am not seeing any breaks or cut traces. I'm checking on the neo wiki and looking at different things for click of death i guess i gotta start checking for continuity from all these chips. By any chance does anyone know where i should look first? or provide a clear route for me to take. I do alright with electronics/soldering but a lot of it is foreign to me. Below is the backstory of what i have done up to now if you guys want to read. But the sram and the bios have sockets on them now. thank you for your time.
Back story
Need some guidance if possible. Bought a neo geo off of ebay that wouldn't power on. Turned out the traces had lifted off some components on the daughter board. wired them up and used a 5v 3a plug (reversed polarity to have center negative) to power it on. With no cartridge if i recall i got a blue screen which meant everything was ok i thought. Bought fatal fury off ebay as well but couldn't get it to work. Next I tried removing the bios to add a socket (messed up some traces friend of mine repaired it). Tried the diagnostic bios but couldn't get anything on screen. just pixelation and all. At this time i decided to buy another neo geo (aes3-6) and found out the fatal fury game was actually faulty but i did order 2 other games art of fighting and samurai spirits and i can get them to work on the aes3-6 no problem but i get pixelation and the clicking of death it seems on the aes 3-3. I tried to remove the cxk5864bsp chip to add a socket and i messed up like 3 traces haha but friend again fixed them for me and i was able to put sockets for the cxk5864's and the cxk5814's. I ended up doing the same for the aes 3-6. Once that was complete i did some swaps and all the chips from the aes 3-3 worked fine in the aes 3-6 diag bios indicated all passed.