andre104623 wrote:I have found the cause of the fire and its my doing that cause the fire. If you look at the second pic I posted you will notice that I added solder to the IDE-EXI pads this was to have better connection in the Gamecube but all it did was push the tangs in the memory card slot up to the point that they were touching.
taking a look at the second and third pics i see some nice and clean purple areas where those memcard slot pads are...if those pins shorting were in any way the cause of the fire, then they would be burned up by electrical surge to become the cause of a fire...
instead, they were shielded from fire within the memcard slot while everything else around it burned...
i think i might already know the cause of the fire, but it would take a few more photos of the actual GC itself to confirm...
andre104623 wrote:I asked Unseen about taking out some wires from the install but I will wait till someone that really knows what he is doing to mod the PCB.
the info Unseen posted is accurate...
dont take this the wrong way, but his statements were only based on common sense and basic electronics...
1. 12v and 27mhz are not needed in his design because he does not use them...so there is no reason to connect those...
2. GND is GND is GND....you do not need to individually connect every GND to the digital port. Instead just connect GND from the GC video to GND on the mainboard collectively as one or as a single GND....
....about your statement:
"I will wait till someone that really knows what he is doing to mod the PCB"
you do realize Unseen is not new to hardware or PCB design??
he only made a quick beta board suitable for
his own use / needs and included that ready to use design for others to have a quick and ready way to test his design...
yes, there are some improvements which can be added to the PCB to allow more custom fit or more custom connection....
....but for you to make indication that he doesnt know what he is doing is just improper considering this recent fire fiasco in which no previous IDE-EXI has ever caught on fire until now...and im pretty convinced based on the photos posted above that the IDE-EXI
itself was not even the cause of the fire...
- Chips from china, while possible, might not be the cause based on what i see in the photos...
- Malicious cat bouncing around the room while you are away is possible, but i still dont see the actual IDE-EXI as the root cause of the fire..
- i already indicated above about how it seems impossible for the memcard pins to have been the cause since thet area of the PCB is considerably unscathed..
- While oil based paint would help the fire burn, something had to start flaming for it to even catch on fire...and if the chip overheated and by generating enough heat to catch the paint on fire based on contact heat then the chip itself would have also become a bit desoldered by the temp of its own self yet the chip still looks like its in perfect placement...
My concern is knowing the actual cause of the fire. This will help others avoid danger in the future thru the use of safe modding practices...in your case you only lost a prized Spice GC and not your entire home...Lets try to help others from a potential loss of their home..
post some pics of the entire GC