Killing time...and other things.

So now that I got my anger out of the way...I guess this is kind of a common problem with this model. Wish I had know this earlier of course. But anyway I initiated a support ticket from zotac...and of course it's all just a waiting game. I'm sure they'll want me to pull the battery, reset the bios, and all that jazz...only to have it not work of course. Then I'm sure they'll send me an RMA and I'll be waiting some more. To make matters worse...they...

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R.I.P. Spintendo

Well Im not sure whether to be really sad or really angry. I dont know what happened here. Two days ago it was running fine with no problems...but now it will power on but no video will come up. I've tried both the dvi and hdmi and both give me the same result...nothing. I've tried unhooking everything one at a time to troubleshoot and I still get nothing. I'm so frustrated because I've put so much effort and $ into this thing only to have the motherboard die!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...hhhh...hh.h....... Well...

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N64 Goodness

Well it went alot easier than anticipated. The chip works wonderfully. I have to admit my soldering is getting a lot cleaner as well. If you're looking to go the USB route...I highly recommend this chip. You can grab it from www.raphnet.net . Flip the controller over and remove the 9 screws. There are 7 on the backside And here are the other 2 are where the memory pack goes. Be careful with these because the strip easisly. This is what you will...

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