mario kart gp 2 triforce mediaboard cap kit

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hey all, anyone know where to get a cap kit for the media board for the triforce arcade system?
 
No such thing exists. Why do you want to recap Media Bd?? I am main repair shop for Triforce and have repaired hundreds of them, not seeing Media Bd issues aside from bad NANDs.
 
Either caps are bad on Base Bd or AV port is crudded up or both. Most likely both. I highly do not recommend trying to recap this yourself. It cost double for me to repair rework damaged Base Bds.
 
Either caps are bad on Base Bd or AV port is crudded up or both. Most likely both. I highly do not recommend trying to recap this yourself. It cost double for me to repair rework damaged Base Bds.
its just basic smd caps, i have done those before on gamecube disc drives and ps1 motherboards
 
what would suggest the Media Board is at fault for that?
from the research i have done it seems to be a common issue plus the fact of the no boot and video issues, the gamecube board is fine as i tried it in my gamecube and it said media board not found, i also swapped ipl chips and it booted as a normal japanese gamecube
 
If you have the fuzzy bars on screen its bad caps on Base Bd (bottom PCB). If you are having any odd colors or sync issues, most likely its bad dirty AV port out of Core. Just simple cleaning usually fixes that. Anything bad internally on Core usually kills it.
 
If you have the fuzzy bars on screen its bad caps on Base Bd (bottom PCB). If you are having any odd colors or sync issues, most likely its bad dirty AV port out of Core. Just simple cleaning usually fixes that. Anything bad internally on Core usually kills it.
well right now its not booting
 
then you send it to @irepairsega and you pay him money and he fixes it

it's not like you're trying to fix a Pac-Man board here
its just replacing caps lol its not that hard, hot air them off or twist them off and solder on the new ones and check for cold solder joints, not sure why yall are making repair of these things seem like a huge daunting task
 
its just replacing caps lol its not that hard, hot air them off or twist them off and solder on the new ones and check for cold solder joints, not sure why yall are making repair of these things seem like a huge daunting task
I wish you good fortune. should you succeed in this venture I will award you 2 gold stars.
 
You sell capped GameCube dvd drives on eBay? I bought a capped dvd drive for my GameCube I've owned since launch a few years ago when it stopped reading consistently then it would only read if you left the GameCube on for 10 minutes and then put a disk in. Don't know if you sold it to me but it's been great all these years later. I did not feel like recapping those tiny surface mounts. It would've cost me more for the proper tools to do it than this guy charged me on eBay. Anyways yeah if you know how to use hot air stations by all means do the repair for your arcade yourself.
 
You sell capped GameCube dvd drives on eBay? I bought a capped dvd drive for my GameCube I've owned since launch a few years ago when it stopped reading consistently then it would only read if you left the GameCube on for 10 minutes and then put a disk in. Don't know if you sold it to me but it's been great all these years later. I did not feel like recapping those tiny surface mounts. It would've cost me more for the proper tools to do it than this guy charged me on eBay. Anyways yeah if you know how to use hot air stations by all means do the repair for your arcade yourself.
nope not me lol but glad that worked for you! sorry for going off topic, but i did sell two silver gamecubes last year that i cleaned, pico boot modded and recapped the disc drives
 
nope not me lol but glad that worked for you! sorry for going off topic, but i did sell two silver gamecubes last year that i cleaned, pico boot modded and recapped the disc drives
No worries I figured I'd ask since not too many people are recapping gamecube drives. You seem like you know what you're doing, good luck with this repair.
 
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