Power supply E-FAIL...

So, I tried doing the power supply hack like I mentioned in my last post. I had it all set up and ready to test.

...nope...

Didn't work. I tried 2 different power supplies. Both didn't work (one actually screeched at me).

So, wat do?

I asked a local FB group I'm a part of for help. There was a guy that I dealt with before with the Atari 5200 that was willing to help me out. After getting lost several times, I was able to get there and test it out with his adapter.

Lo and behold. It worked.

...

So, on goes the hunt for a proper adapter.

In the meantime, I'm trying to wrap my head around why the hack worked for couple of people but not working for me. Here's to hoping that I can figure it out.

Yay, cheap stuff on eBay!...

On September 17th, I won an auction for a Neo Geo CD. It was for the console only, so no controllers or cables or the power supply.

I've contemplated looking online for an adapter for it, but they fetch a pretty high price tag. Not willing to pay about the same amount I bought the console for.

Enter power supply hacks for the Neo CD. I came up to THIS POST. The OP used an adapter that had a Molex style connector used in PC drives. (LINK). I do have that type of adapter, but I was thinking for future mounting of the connector, making it look stock.

I then remembered an old IDE external drive that I had. The power supply had roughly the same amperage as the above mentioned one, but a different connector.

...yeah...

So, what to do?

Well, the enclosure stopped working, so I just raided the PCB for the connector. In the process of desoldering the connector, I broke off one of the legs. Not a real problem; I took the connector apart and see that I can just solder a bit of wire to it. Doesn't matter since it's a ground pin, and if I need to, I can get another connector online or just mod the connector later.

The Neo CD did arrive today, but no one was home to accept delivery. So I just have to take a trip to the post office tomorrow to pick it up. I'll do a quick solder to the power points on the drive and test it out. If it works (the listing said it was tested and working), then I'm gonna permanently mod the connector.

Stay tuned...even if I post the results later than tomorrow.

Aaaand, I'm Back!

Fresh install of Win 10 x64. Already got stuff loaded back on. Chrome behaving properly. Universal Media Server working right.

Ready to go!

...now to get some other mod projects going.

Killing my computer...

The short of it: I installed a program for streaming from PC to device. It did something to my computer that hijacked my browsers (Chrome and IE), and there's no official way to change it.

Backing everything up now, and gonna install Windows 10 (for giggles). Anything I missed from the backup can be easily downloaded again.

I hate that...