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<blockquote data-quote="FAST6191" data-source="post: 10095235" data-attributes="member: 32303"><p>Never seen a clock crystal break on a GBA before. Been known on many things though and we are getting into the long tail point where all sorts of oddities happen, and similarly if it is not contacts, obvious corrosion, fuses, screen or charge circuit most people would probably junk it.</p><p></p><p>I doubt you will have anything to sensibly measure it (some older electronics clocks are at the point where a poor man's oscilloscope , aka sliced up headphone wire into the line in port on a computer, are low enough but eh for this).</p><p>What I am more here to say is do check the paths from the little switch inside the cartridge slot -- normally it will manifest as a shrunken screen like you are trying to boot in GB/GBC mode but as part of that will necessarily mess with the multiplier.</p><p></p><p>On hissing then might be worth checking some capacitors. Normally it is a thing for the Gameboy world rather than GBA but again this many years on is when the fun stuff happens.</p><p></p><p>Soldering clock crystals is potentially a fun one but they do better than some of the classic ones that broke almost if you waved a hair dryer near them never mind hot air soldering options. You can probably desolder, clean and tack down with a decent normal soldering iron but hot air is good stuff when playing with this sort of thing. If you wanted to deadbug* a through hole crystal then that is not the worst plan.</p><p></p><p>*turn a chip, or crystal in this case, on its back, glue that down maybe and solder wires to the legs/pins. Old school method of prototyping, fixing when you don't have pin compatible chips and certain modifications but does work. I don't like it as much for signals purposes (though this is not really fast enough that it really starts to trouble noise and integrity) and you want to make sure nothing is going to short out on the case/shielding if there is any but I am not going to say no.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FAST6191, post: 10095235, member: 32303"] Never seen a clock crystal break on a GBA before. Been known on many things though and we are getting into the long tail point where all sorts of oddities happen, and similarly if it is not contacts, obvious corrosion, fuses, screen or charge circuit most people would probably junk it. I doubt you will have anything to sensibly measure it (some older electronics clocks are at the point where a poor man's oscilloscope , aka sliced up headphone wire into the line in port on a computer, are low enough but eh for this). What I am more here to say is do check the paths from the little switch inside the cartridge slot -- normally it will manifest as a shrunken screen like you are trying to boot in GB/GBC mode but as part of that will necessarily mess with the multiplier. On hissing then might be worth checking some capacitors. Normally it is a thing for the Gameboy world rather than GBA but again this many years on is when the fun stuff happens. Soldering clock crystals is potentially a fun one but they do better than some of the classic ones that broke almost if you waved a hair dryer near them never mind hot air soldering options. You can probably desolder, clean and tack down with a decent normal soldering iron but hot air is good stuff when playing with this sort of thing. If you wanted to deadbug* a through hole crystal then that is not the worst plan. *turn a chip, or crystal in this case, on its back, glue that down maybe and solder wires to the legs/pins. Old school method of prototyping, fixing when you don't have pin compatible chips and certain modifications but does work. I don't like it as much for signals purposes (though this is not really fast enough that it really starts to trouble noise and integrity) and you want to make sure nothing is going to short out on the case/shielding if there is any but I am not going to say no. [/QUOTE]
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