Did you happened to do a "miracle" repair of something you break or get a "break" item and you just open it and remove dust and it starts working ? I will start with 2 of mine 1, A boyfriend of my sister get a PS2 (fat) as a gift with explanation that someone try to install a mod chip and the PS2 after, was dead. I opened it and just remove the mess which was left after installing the chip. It take me about 5 minutes for cleaning and 15 minutes to open/close the PS2 and that was it. He has new PS2 for free :icon_bigg. 2, I was cleaning one of my server as usual and wanted to remove fan from CPU and whops the screw driver slip to mainboard and break a few trace. After 2 hours of working and a lots of s words I get working server. The result you can see below :icon_bigg. The server is working for a year now. NEW 3, I remember today, that I got Arcade borad for Tekken 3, but it got broken during the shipment. The seller refund me and left the board for me. As I found, there was broken one resistance. I chenged it and I had a new Tekken 3 board for free.
My miracle repair has still got to be the PS2 Tool that arrived without HDD and half it's guts hanging out. Well documented within the Sony Dev threads so won't go through it again, but it is still going strong!
When I was in high school I repaired a computer that belonged to a grandson of one of my teachers. I don't exactly remember what was wrong; I'm pretty sure it didn't start up properly because one of the RAM modules was loose. On top of that the sound didn't work, so I had to look up the drivers for the integrated sound card. She was happy with it and all was well. About a month or two later she bought a brand new computer (for her seven-year-old grandson?) and she told me she would like to give the old one to me. It's a crappy 500mhz K6-2 Compaq, but it still works and it's sitting across the table from me right now. If I can find a place to put it in my room I'm going to split my keyboard, mouse, and monitor with my other desktop and toss Linux on it. Not quite a miracle repair, but I traded a broken PS2 (Phrequency: it was your PS2 ) and 60 gig laptop hard drive for a mostly-working Xbox. The DVD drive doesn't entirely work, but I modded it and put an 80 gig hard drive in. One of my roommates is watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 on it right now.
Picked up a Neo Geo CD unit from a well-known American import shop. They gave it up for $20, indicated that the CD drive was broken. When I opened it up, I saw immediately that the ribbon cable was seated incorrectly. Ten seconds later, I had a perfectly working Neo CD. What makes this story sad is that the week before I bought myself a CDZ and spent a day installing a region switch on it. Must have paid around $400 for the thing. And I hardly use it, since the original CD unit is so much more... solid.
1. Years ago I pulled the handle off my parents' microwave so hard that I flew back, with the handle still in my hand. I quickly super-glued that mug back in place and watched as the next person who opened the microwave and broke the handle took the blame. 2. I won my first Dreamcast development box on eBay a couple years back that apparently came from a PC junkyard. The case was so F-ed beyond repair, as well as the GD-ROM drive. Luckily I had some spare parts and was able to get it working perfectly! I made a "blog" of my steps & progress somewhere in my site.
I like this nice bargin things which suppose to be broken and when you open it you find that its only this or that cable with bad connection and its done. Full working hundreds of dolars unit like new for a few bucks :nod:
I'm using a day of release Saturn that I found in a pool of water while raining 9 years ago when I lived in Tokyo. After a dry out it worked like new until 2 years ago when the motor that spins the disc just started to give up. I wasn't angry at all since this Saturn had been given well more than it's fair share of hours powered up and I had another one any way. But for some reason I kept it and used my white Saturn for a few weeks. Then one day I decided to power up the old Saturn. It bloody worked as if nothing was ever wrong ! It still gets used a good few hours every week and is going as strong as ever. The Saturn, the ultimate CD based console for reliability ! 13 years old and still going like an OX. Yakumo
