KPlanet

I'm losing hope here. Tried resoldering the capacitors as best I can, haven't touched the chip yet though. It's still doing the same thing, two cycles, then on the third red/orange, I can hear and feel the hard drive spinning and writing. Is this thing just proper pooched at this point?

I can definitely hear and feel the write arm fidgeting about inside. I can't tell if the disk drive is going as I managed to get my disc out before the system ate it. I'll look into the resoldering tomorrow and report back. What could possibly explain the system going kaput in the middle of running though?

My apologies if the photos are terrible, I'm not a real good cellphone photog either. The hard drive and fan both spin up during the power cycle, and stay on during the flashing. I have not tried a boot disk, I am not really familiar with the whole process yet, but i also cannot open the disk drive, not sure it its due to the issue at hand, but it's also sticky and requires a paperclip assist sometimes.

I'm not really an electronics guy, so bear with me here. 1.6 box, with a DuoX2 chip in it from about 15 years ago. One day a couple of months ago it was DOA, opened it up and the 5 capacitors were shot. Replaced them, with my godawful soldering skills, and it booted up and worked for about 3 minutes, loaded an emulator, then it froze, rebooted, and it powercycles twice and is flashing red/orange. Did I accidently fry something, or jump a connection where I shouldn't have, or cook something during the desoldering (PITA, me not being an electronics guy) or soldering? Is there spots i can look to diagnose a possible issue?