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Spike Spiegel said:
There should be a screw that will let you adjust your voltage. Are you getting any sound? Was the motherboard ever working?
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got my cps3 third strike... why's nothign happening?
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There should be a screw that will let you adjust your voltage. Are you getting any sound? Was the motherboard ever working?
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Dinodoedoe said:
There should be a screw that will let you adjust your voltage. Are you getting any sound? Was the motherboard ever working?
No sound, yes the mobo worked about a few months ago... 4 months ago, I think? Will too much voltage also not turn it on? I found the screw, and when I turn it up and down with Vamipre Savior in it, you can hear the fan getting faster when I turn it up. I had messed with it a bit with cps3 in it, and the cd will slow down and even turn off if too low. I'm afriad I don't have a multimeter, so I don't know if I keep playing with it until it turns on, or if that's just asking for trouble?
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Sounds like the battery on the cart may have died.
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Dinodoedoe said:
Trust me, it hasn't. It was working days ago... proven working. It's not the battery.
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Another silly question. Was there any change in conditions between then and now? Power surge, static shock? Did the board slip and fell? Is your cab working with another jamma board? What kind of a cab are you plugging into?Spike Spiegel said:
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Dinodoedoe said:
It's a Vampire Savior cab at the moment... was hoping to change that today
I turned it all the way down, turn on the machine... and I actually got some stuff on the screen. Little white blocks... not much, but a few. Better than black. I'll just keep messing with that for a little while, I guess.
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here's something I was thinking about. Awhile back I tried to change the battery on one of my Cps-2 games. After I had changed the battery I had got the blackscreen with nothing showing up or anything. I saw that my soldering job was sucky and I soldered the battery in a little better and it ended up working. maybe the battery on the cart got rattled and isn't making a good connection. doesn't hurt to check it.
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Well, I'm starting to want to throw this away. Messing with the voltage will give me a solid white screen... got solid yellow.... seems that if I have voltage all the way down it gives me some little grahpics.... just a few. Messing with voltage does change something. I've put this in both machines and messed with the voltage settings... nothing on either one. Sure the pow supply is old in both of them, but come on. One of them WAS SF3 when I bought it... I just give up. I'll send this to mean bean to see if it's dead, then just give up on it. Fuck you CPS3. Fuck you.
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Here's what I know:
this cart is so clean you could eat off it. I've cleaned it twice, took it out, did an eraser and cleaned it some more. Maybe the slot where the cart goes could use some cleaning, but I can't get in there....
Because I took off the cart casing I can see a nice new battery instal on this. I knew it wasn't the battery as it worked on his set up, and sure enough, the oldest CPS3 game who's original battery could still be working has a new one. Not that, then.
People tell me the cart's not making a connection, but you can see when it is since it goes black WHEN it's all the way in.... you can tell. It may be voltage, as things happen as it goes up and down, but I doubt it. Mean Bean says it could be static, but how do you get rid of that? Perhaps you don't? I'm not sure....
It's two seconds away from working, but it just doesn't... it's killing me.
this cart is so clean you could eat off it. I've cleaned it twice, took it out, did an eraser and cleaned it some more. Maybe the slot where the cart goes could use some cleaning, but I can't get in there....
Because I took off the cart casing I can see a nice new battery instal on this. I knew it wasn't the battery as it worked on his set up, and sure enough, the oldest CPS3 game who's original battery could still be working has a new one. Not that, then.
People tell me the cart's not making a connection, but you can see when it is since it goes black WHEN it's all the way in.... you can tell. It may be voltage, as things happen as it goes up and down, but I doubt it. Mean Bean says it could be static, but how do you get rid of that? Perhaps you don't? I'm not sure....
It's two seconds away from working, but it just doesn't... it's killing me.
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There's only one more thing i can think of, and its not good if it did happen. If you insert a CPS 3 cart into the motherboard while the power is on, you can kill the cart. I've had this happen to me before, and believe me it sucks, especially when its an expensive game like 3rd strike. The problem with this is that the cart will still read 3.0 volts, so its hard to tell if it was suicide or not. Still, it doesn't ALWAYS kill the cart, but it is possible.
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Borman said:
Haha, yeah. I've tried everything, and I've tried them a million times each. I'm just fed up. Going to send to Mean Bean in the hopes that he turns into Jesus and knows what it is.
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Spike I had the same problem you did. I cleaned everything, I changed the voltage. Nothing seems to work. Only thing that happens when I adjust the voltage is a garbled screen. This is only when the voltage is set too low. I agree Spike, fuck CPS3. Fuck fuck fuck mc-fuck it!
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Can you post pics so I can compare your setup to mine? Is your a Japanese or US motherboard?
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Dinodoedoe said:
what would that really prove? It's just messed up... there's no saving it. Lesson learned. What pisses me off is I bought his off of ebay... is there nothing that can be done to recover SOME money?
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ask the guy for some money back nicely, and if he won't do anything then just file a complaint. you did pay with paypal, right?
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SpamYouToDeath said:
No, he doesn't take paypal... hmmm. He said he's going to talk to the usps about his insurance that he put on it. What a mess.
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Spike Spiegel said:
This is exactly why we need the CPS3 to be decrypted!! I would pay tons of cash to have this done!!
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If you got a black screen then your cartridge is still alive and fully working. When CPS3 cart are dead then you get a strange screen with undertandable patterns gray/green.
1) your connector on motherboard is not cleaned well.
2) you have a foulty motherboard
3) your power supply not working properly.
1) your connector on motherboard is not cleaned well.
2) you have a foulty motherboard
3) your power supply not working properly.
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Yeah... it was never a smart idea to f*** with the power supply without a digital voltmeter handy.
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MuKuro said:
Power supply is fine, as I've ran my other kit on this, the motherboard works fine... and finally the slot MAY be dirty... how would you suggest I clean this? I don't think that's true, but who knows. Many on here have said they've seen this black screen. I'm afraid I'm screwed, but who really knows?
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