I've been working on this issue for the last few months and I'll tell my findings so far so whoever is googling this answer might have success finding the root of the problem.
Got a SNES console, originally it booted on with just a black screen. No sound, no picture. So I checked some forums out and a bunch of them said to deep-clean the console because it might just be a bad pin connection. Opened up the console, revealed the pin connector, cleaned it out with 99% isopropyl alcohol (Costco, 10$ gets you 4 good-sized bottles of the stuff,) as well as the contacts on the board where the Pin connector joins in. Turns out there was all sorts of dust and bits of debris in there, and once I cleaned it all up.. It turns on and boots the game!
Open up your system. Clean the pin connector.
Problem #2.... now the system starts up and loads any game I shove into it, but it only plays for a minute or two then randomly shuts the game off but the power is still flowing to the system (Red light is still on)
This is the current issue I'm having with one system.
Other suggestions I've come across are that the PPU or the VRAM chips might be burned out on the motherboard, or one of the video caps has decided to die. Video caps however are extremely easy to replace if you've ever done some minor soldering before, so check to see if any of the caps or bloated/burned out/look dead and then try replacing those.
If it's a PPU or VRAM chip... I'm not quite sure how to fix that yet. Working on it.
Good luck to all your folks out there.
I've been working on this issue for the last few months and I'll tell my findings so far so whoever is googling this answer might have success finding the root of the problem.
Got a SNES console, originally it booted on with just a black screen. No sound, no picture. So I checked some forums out and a bunch of them said to deep-clean the console because it might just be a bad pin connection. Opened up the console, revealed the pin connector, cleaned it out with 99% isopropyl alcohol (Costco, 10$ gets you 4 good-sized bottles of the stuff,) as well as the contacts on the board where the Pin connector joins in. Turns out there was all sorts of dust and bits of debris in there, and once I cleaned it all up.. It turns on and boots the game!
Open up your system. Clean the pin connector.
Problem #2.... now the system starts up and loads any game I shove into it, but it only plays for a minute or two then randomly shuts the game off but the power is still flowing to the system (Red light is still on)
This is the current issue I'm having with one system.
Other suggestions I've come across are that the PPU or the VRAM chips might be burned out on the motherboard, or one of the video caps has decided to die. Video caps however are extremely easy to replace if you've ever done some minor soldering before, so check to see if any of the caps or bloated/burned out/look dead and then try replacing those.
If it's a PPU or VRAM chip... I'm not quite sure how to fix that yet. Working on it.
Good luck to all your folks out there.
I've been working on this issue for the last few months and I'll tell my findings so far so whoever is googling this answer might have success finding the root of the problem.
Got a SNES console, originally it booted on with just a black screen. No sound, no picture. So I checked some forums out and a bunch of them said to deep-clean the console because it might just be a bad pin connection. Opened up the console, revealed the pin connector, cleaned it out with 99% isopropyl alcohol (Costco, 10$ gets you 4 good-sized bottles of the stuff,) as well as the contacts on the board where the Pin connector joins in. Turns out there was all sorts of dust and bits of debris in there, and once I cleaned it all up.. It turns on and boots the game!
Open up your system. Clean the pin connector.
Problem #2.... now the system starts up and loads any game I shove into it, but it only plays for a minute or two then randomly shuts the game off but the power is still flowing to the system (Red light is still on)
This is the current issue I'm having with one system.
Other suggestions I've come across are that the PPU or the VRAM chips might be burned out on the motherboard, or one of the video caps has decided to die. Video caps however are extremely easy to replace if you've ever done some minor soldering before, so check to see if any of the caps or bloated/burned out/look dead and then try replacing those.
If it's a PPU or VRAM chip... I'm not quite sure how to fix that yet. Working on it.
Good luck to all your folks out there.