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Title: Bought broken *used* X-Arcade solo...easiest fix?
Post by: csusjoe on February 23, 2006, 05:11:54 pm

I just bought a used X-Arcade solo at a local game shop for $15 and brought it home to find it broken. Would it be easier to see if I could get X-Arcade to work with me to get it fixed or should I just take out the X-Arcade board and install an IPAC (and maybe some better, less-clicky buttons)?? Has anyone replaced the X-Arcade board before?  Is there anything I should know?

Looking forward to spending more time on these super-informative boards!

Thanks

Title: Re: Bought broken *used* X-Arcade solo...easiest fix?
Post by: Scott84 on February 23, 2006, 08:10:17 pm

Email X-Arcade and ask them to see if they can identify the issue... might be an easy fix, or it might be a hard one.

Title: Re: Bought broken *used* X-Arcade solo...easiest fix?
Post by: Teebor on February 24, 2006, 04:31:26 am

you will have to modify the wiring to work with the IPAC as the X-arcade has little white connectors on the end (or at least the couple I have seen do) which plug straight into the X-arcade board.

Title: Re: Bought broken *used* X-Arcade solo...easiest fix?
Post by: DrewKaree on February 24, 2006, 04:52:32 am

Quote from: csusjoe on February 23, 2006, 05:11:54 pm

I just bought a used X-Arcade solo at a local game shop for $15 and brought it home to find it broken. Would it be easier to see if I could get X-Arcade to work with me to get it fixed or should I just take out the X-Arcade board and install an IPAC (and maybe some better, less-clicky buttons)?? Has anyone replaced the X-Arcade board before?  Is there anything I should know?

Looking forward to spending more time on these super-informative boards!

Thanks

How can anyone help if there's no definition of "broken" ???

Title: Re: Bought broken *used* X-Arcade solo...easiest fix?
Post by: Havok on February 24, 2006, 02:43:38 pm

Quote from: DrewKaree on February 24, 2006, 04:52:32 am

Quote from: csusjoe on February 23, 2006, 05:11:54 pm

I just bought a used X-Arcade solo at a local game shop for $15 and brought it home to find it broken. Would it be easier to see if I could get X-Arcade to work with me to get it fixed or should I just take out the X-Arcade board and install an IPAC (and maybe some better, less-clicky buttons)?? Has anyone replaced the X-Arcade board before?  Is there anything I should know?

Looking forward to spending more time on these super-informative boards!

Thanks

How can anyone help if there's no definition of "broken" ???

Doesn't matter. Chewing gum and duct tape will fix ANYTHING.

Just use that, and it will work...

Title: Re: Bought broken *used* X-Arcade solo...easiest fix?
Post by: csusjoe on February 24, 2006, 08:01:22 pm

"Broken" means not working when I try to plug it into any PC I have access to, nor to my XBox. The LED on the unit lights up, so do the LEDs on the connected keyboard, but none of the button presses on the unit cause anything to happen. When I try to switch modes and load the new mode using the button on the back, the LED on the unit is supposed to go off, but it doesn't. Therefore, it seems as if something is wrong with the board inside the unit.

And the wires are simply soldered onto the board inside the unit, no little white connectors as far as I can see...

Title: Re: Bought broken *used* X-Arcade solo...easiest fix?
Post by: divemaster127 on February 24, 2006, 08:58:44 pm

xarcade has a lifetime warrenty contact for warrenty repair
thanks
dm