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From: William Atkin <"u9722039"@bournemouth.ac,uk>
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Subject: Re: Dead Yaroze :P
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 14:09:45 +0100
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Oh yes... I'm sure,
    I opened up the thing and the large capacitor looked like a soiled Jiffy
pop container, not to mention there was a large clump of sticky residue
spattered all over the top of the system.

I was thinking of just getting another playstation, but 129 is alot of $$$$.
I would much rather have this thing repaired by the book.

Do you know the e-mail of the SCEA repair boys or should I just send a general
message to "yarozeinfo_scea@interactive.sony.com" which is posted on the SCEA
Yaroze homepage?

Will

Darco wrote:

> If you are really in a bind, you can buy a european playstation and
> replace the power suply yourself. It should be a relitively simple
> operation, the power supply should be modular. However, this wastes
> $129... And Sony probably wouldn't like you doing this anyway. But it
> should work. Then again... Different models might have different
> motherboard voltage requirements... I don't think this is the case
> though, but don't sue me if you try this and you fry your motherboard.
>
> Are you sure it was a capacitors and not the fuse?
>
> 'Darco