I recently bought a Viper GC Extreme. It came in the mail today, and I set everything up. I soldered the wires to the motherboard, and it appeared to go fairly well. However I noticed that the plugin that goes into the actual viper chip from the wires that I soldered onto the mobo does not want to stay in, and I dont think it will go in all the way. Well I decided to still try it out, so I put the plugin into the chip to where it will stay, but if moved slightly it can fall out. I turned on the tv plugged in the gamecube, etc. Turned on the Gamcube, and the light turned on and so did the fan, but that is it... I get no signal on the tv. I tryed using the USB to flash the Bios, but the gamecube is not detected. Someone please tell me what I am doing wrong. I have been trying to get it to work for five hours and I am very frustrated. Thanks Alot
I know this sounds silly but are you plugging it in the right way up. The blue wires should be closest to the ribbon cable and the ribbon cable should be plugged in with the blue end facing you as you look at the front of the chip.
Lol, ya I am plugging it in right, and I did get it to work. I went and checked my solder points and added a little more, and it works. However I have another problem now! I went and flashed it with viper 1.6 and the OS boots up fine. But now I can't boot any games! When I turn on the Gamecube the disc starts to spin up and then I hear a few clicking noises. It continues to spin for a few more seconds, then it just stops. This even happens when I disable the chip, and run from the original bios. I know I was able to boot a game last night but not through the chip. Now it won't boot either way. Someone please help me, is it possible the drive that is causing the problem? I am not using a broadband adapter, but I still bridged the two points, could that be the problem?
I bridged the two points also and don't use the BBA. Check that you haven't bridged any other points when you resoldered. Check it with a magnifying glass if you have one. My cube was picky about when it wanted to read back ups at first so I adjusted the POT value. Works great now with TRAXDATA Mini Disks. What disks are you using ? Mick
Well see thats the thing, it won't read the original gamcube disks anymore. I tried a HP DVD+r and it won't read that either, but I expected it wouldn't. I actually did bridge two on accident because I was looking at the C diagram when I had an A. However I think I was able to get all of the solder off, what would I use to take it off if I didn't get it off? I am going to try to adjust the pot, because I think that might be my problem, I just need to get a multimeter.
You can use something called a solder sucker or a solder wick. Try reflashing your chip with the GCOS 1.5 bios and then see if it will read your disks. Mine would read using this bios and not the Cobra 1.6 bios, but now I have adjusted the POT I can now use the GCOS or the Cobra Are you able to use the USB yet to flash your chip
Ya I can use the USB, thats how I got cobra 1.6 on it. I just went out and got a multimeter, so I will try to adjust the pot. Then I will try reflashing it if that doesn't work. Thanks for the help, I hope it works.
Ok, well I adjusted the POT to 180 (I think) and it did not fix the problem. Now it just seems to read the disk longer before stopping. I will try to flash the bios but I don't think that is the problem, because games won't even boot from the gamecubes bios... UPDATE: Ok, well I flashed GCOS on it and it still does not work. I do not understand what can be wrong.
My gamecube does the same thing. It starts to read the game then i hear it click a few times and it stops. Except mine can still read original gamecube games. And after like 20 tries it starts to work.
Well I took the modchip completly off, including the soldered wires. I am still haveing the same problem. The weird thing is, it worked perfect before installing the chip. Is it still possible that the drive could have broke? I will buy this (http://www.divineo.com/cgi-bin/div-us/zz-gc-rlens) if I have to, but I don't want to waste my money if it isn't going to fix it. I am so close to just scrapping the cube, and it pisses me off because this was a big waste of money if I can't get it to work.
Ever manage to get rid of that solder bridge? If it's a very small amount (as in, hair sized), a knife will do the trick. Otherwise, you could just get some desoldering braid (tightly braided copper ribbon) and that'll do the trick as well. Just be careful not to remove more than you have to though. On a side note, that's the same lens I ordered when mine stopped reading back-ups but could read originals flawlessly. Guess the thousands of hours of gameplay degraded the laser diode just enough to where it couldn't read back-ups.
Its weird...if i leave the cube off all day and come home and try a back-up game, it works fine. But after winning a few championships on mario strikers and a few hours going by, i try another game right after that and it doesnt work. And whats the deal with the huge usb drive sticking out the bottom? The expansion cover doesnt even fit over top of it so i had to cut out some of the plastic in order for it to have a good fit.
If it's sticking out, you didn't put it in right since it's supposed to be far enough in to be concealed.
