Have you ever fixed a console by yourself?

Today I did for the first time. I got a refurbished ps2 slim yesterday from gamestop and it wouldn't play any games. So i opened it up, took a q-tip, and took out what seemed to be a booger that was stuck inside the laser. After that, it worked like new.

Raise your hand if you ever fixed a broken console by yourself. :)

Never have. And I wouldn't wnat to becasue it voids the warrenty. I can get a factory refurbished DS or get it repaired for free, or I may have to pay something (I haven't had to pay anything beyond $40)

nope...only ever had ps2 and ps3...no need to fix em ....XD

I'm working on my friend's 360 and I think I know what's wrong with it. But, he won't let me have it if I fix it because it's his "decoy Xbox". Whenever he gets grounded from Xbox he switches the 360s and his parents never notice.

Opened up my PS2 to clean the laser.

My dreamcast caught the infamous "random reset" problem, where the console would randomly reset during gameplay (as if the name weren't self explanatory enough). It wasn't a constant problem, but it eventually got to the point where the system would simply not boot when I pressed the power button.

Apparently the problem is caused by the metal contacts within the system not properly making a connection with the motherboard or whatever, so I opened up the console, and physically bent the contacts so they would make better contact. It worked and now my Dreamcast works perfectly.

My bro-in-law bought a used 360 on Craigs List for $90, all sales final. A first gen arcade edition that was known for RRODs. Well you can prob guess he used it for about 2 hours and it got the RROD. He looked up online to do the x-clamp fix and it worked... for about an hour and kept getting RRODs. I told him to cut his losses and try to sell it broken but he's determined to try and fix it. So far he's spend an extra $30 for various internet clamp fixes & reapplying thermal paste. The case won't even shut correctly anymore so I'm afraid he's done more damage that any actuall fixing, seeing as how he's not technically inclined anyway.

I fixed my PS3 the internal power supply went out from a power surge even though I had a surge protecter so I bought one off ebay and swapped it out works great again.

No

Several times with different systems!

I have owned a very long list of consoles, but the only ones to cease functioning so far are 3 PS2s and 1 PS3. I opened up the last PS2 and tried cleaning the laser, removing the dust, etc. but just gave up on the console and waited for the PS3 with backward compatability. That one died about a month after the warranty was up so I gave up on Sony products until the Slim came out in 2009 and got one of those on launch. So far it is stil working but given my past luck...

NES.... the reset button got stuck... its still stuck I think, but atleat it kinda works. I also had to clean out the connector (whatever it is called that you hook the game cardred to), oh and bow on it, that always works ;)

Once,around 2003.I tried to fix my first PS2,but it didn´t worked;so I bought a new one weeks later.