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Can we talk about that week my buddy's PS2 laser died and we had to fix it with a guide from 2003?
We spent three nights on his kitchen floor, following a scanned PDF from an old forum that said to adjust the potentiometer with a multimeter. It finally read the right resistance on the third try and booted up a scratched copy of Gran Turismo 3. What's the most dated repair guide you've ever had to rely on that actually worked?
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umab351mo ago
My 1997 Geo Metro manual saved me last month.
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Remember trying to fix my old iPod with a guide that basically said "just trust me bro" and a picture taken on a flip phone. My soldering iron skills are a joke, but following those blurry steps to swap a hard drive felt like defusing a bomb. It's the same vibe as @umab35 with that Geo Metro manual, where you're just praying the person who wrote it wasn't messing with you. That ancient PS2 laser fix is a perfect example, where success feels more like dumb luck than skill.
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troyp3725d ago
A 2005 iPod hard drive swap with a blurry flip phone photo? I mean, come on. I've seen those guides, half the time the picture is just a smudge and a caption like 'solder here'. I bet half the people who tried that ended up with a brick or a melted ribbon cable, not a working iPod. Your soldering skills probably weren't even the problem, the guide was just trash from the start.
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