hey is there a source for the dvd drive spindle motor
next batch I dug into has 2 drives with dead motors
is there a compatible one I can scavenge from another drive

A+ thanks lol I went ahead and used my cap tester on the power supply showed 2 bad caps so I replaced them now have 12 v again I ended up cannibalizing the cube for some other parts so now I have a spare for the next batch I dig into I spent all day yesterday installing region switches on 9 of the c...

thanks guys I brought them with me to my arcade store today (I have more test equipment here) www.daydreamskc.com (lol shameless plug) and after a bit of testing it seems it is the power supply I installed the motherboards into one of the working cubes and sound was working so glad to know I didn't ...

just bought a big pile of gamecubes and after the first 14 only one was totally dead (bad mobo). the rest were just weak lasers and stuck reset switches So i picked up a lot of "tested" motherboards on feepay , but they are all ntsc-j and after installing 2 different boards , the cube boot...