Fried Panasonic Q. Oh, the horror

[edandersen]

Well, I managed to put the kettle plug from my 240v PAL Xbox into my Q instead of the 110v JPN one and my Q died due to the voltage with a nice popping noise (only Zelda was worth waiting for anyway, so its not a great loss). I put a few questions to you lot:

1. Is there any way of fixing this apart from shipping it off to a knob in Hong Kong?

2. How the hell do I get my disc 1 of RE4 out of the mechanised tray with no power?

3. Does a PAL gamecube output 480p on NTSC games with a freeloader?


Ta.

[Papercut]

1) you could open it up and see if an internal fuse has blown

2) open it up and run the tray mechanism manually

3) yes, with 1.06b/B

[Nu-Eclipse]

I feel your pain, ed. Same thing has happened to me with my Q.

Lik-Sang are telling me that they can't fix my Q.

Unless I can find someone in London (or the country) for that matter who could fix mine - I may be looking at buying a brand new one, which I obviously don't want to do. Buying a Q was expensive enough the first time around.

Let me know if you come up with a solution?

[Lyrical Donut]

Well, I managed to put the kettle plug from my 240v PAL Xbox into my Q instead of the 110v JPN one and my Q died due to the voltage with a nice popping noise (only Zelda was worth waiting for anyway, so its not a great loss). I put a few questions to you lot:

If all else fails, I have a dead Q here, the DVD drive is ****ed, but the PSU is still fine and dandy. If you can find someone willing to swap out the PSU, feel free to make me an offer on it, as I was probably just going to end up chucking it out when we next move :/

[edandersen]

An awful lot of Q casualties here :-/ Maybe the ****ers aren't built proper like. I'll try and open the bastard up and have a look, but its crazy the amount of parts this thing comes apart in (done it before).

Fingers crossed with the advent of the PSP, the next round of machines are multi voltage. There really is no excuse. Xbox, I'm looking at you.

[mr_fantazmo]

Can i also join the "I ****ed up my beloved Panasonic Q by plugging the wrong lead in! " group??

[Papercut]

Remedial class is just down the road.

Fingers crossed with the advent of the PSP, the next round of machines are multi voltage. There really is no excuse. Xbox, I'm looking at you.

Exactly. What happens if I emmigrate? ****ers. I want hardware producers to pander to the 0.1% of gamers who import or emmigrate, goddammit. Me me me!

[Tom Salter]

Unless I can find someone in London (or the country) for that matter who could fix mine - I may be looking at buying a brand new one, which I obviously don't want to do. Buying a Q was expensive enough the first time around.

Try www.londonconsole.com .

Or remedial class.

[dataDave]

LOL! Proper rems!

My mate blew up my jap. DC last year with his X-Box lead. It were dead good.

You leaving these shores Papercut? Raggy bast!

[John Beaulieu]

trying to find somewhere to fix your Q is a ballache - only person i found who would even risk looking at it was Saur.

Mine blew due to the rgb lead i was using, I switched (or should i say my mate did) scart sockets on the back of the tv whilst the Q was turned on, it ended up blowing the sound chips.

Saur put it all to rights though, after i sold it to someone else .... it just pissed me off so much that the sound chip died that i couldn't be doing with the Q after that

[Pootle UK]

Thank god my Q is fine

[Yod@]

Saur put it all to rights though, after i sold it to someone else .... it just pissed me off so much that the sound chip died that i couldn't be doing with the Q after that

To be fair, that problem isn't limited to the Q - it can happen to any cube.

And Pootle, those are famous last words.

[John Beaulieu]

aye - common to gc's but for some reason no repairers would even take the Q apart, nevermind attempt to fix it

[Resonance]

Open it up, have a look at what is shafted (probably just the power board) and see if you can replace it with a regular GC one.

[Tak]

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