Capt. 2110
Experienced Member
If you lack the money and tools to fix it, then why did you intentionally buy something listed as not working?
Because, sometime For Parts or Not Working really just means "I don't have the stuff you need to test this thing, and I don't want it anymore."
I think it was a bad run of capacitors that everybody seems to have bought. The Sega Game Gear had issues with capacitors in every unit ever made by Sega, and they were produced from 1990 to around 1997. But as GiGaBiTe said, even high end electrolytics would be bad by now. It's just the bad batches would typically try to take the computer down with them. The better caps typically just dried up and left the board less harmed.
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