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GameCube Digital AV converter
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No HDMI signal at all #107

Open ceesvanegmond opened 1 year ago

ceesvanegmond commented 1 year ago

Hi there,

In 2020 I bought the FPGA board from KNJN (Item#6117 (Pluto-IIx XC3S200 HDMI) (pre-programmed with GCVideo 3.1 for Gamecube)) . It is preinstalled with GCvideo for Gamecube. It's a revision F board so the DCC fix should not be needed.

Last week I finally had time to install it for the first time. I think everything went very well; except that I cannot seem to get an HDMI signal from it. I tried multiple TV's and Monitor's so I think it's an wiring issue. I already tried to see if there any loose wirigns or miswirings or potential bridges but so far I cannot seem to find it. When trying out the Analog signal; that also doesn't work anymore; well partial. It does gray/white but no colour.

The two leds on the board are on. One is green the whole time and the other one is blinking green; which should be good.

Could it be possible that these two problems relates to each other? I don't know where to start right now :-)

EDIT: I think I already see the problem. In the beginning I was struggling alot with the removal of the Digital Port and I broke 3 traces, namly 9, 13 and BLCK. Are there via's I can solder direcly to?

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Androxilogin commented 1 year ago

I had the same problem but I couldn't find any bad traces. Did you try the original A/V port? I'm pretty sure with mine I spend soo much time messing around with the chip itself, I didn't pay attention to not having thermal pads on the heatsinks and it got toasted that way. I've since installed a new motherboard I got for cheap but haven't attempted to mess with this again. Although, I'm planning on trying on a DOL-101. There are alternate connections directly to the chip which are present on both revisions of the board.

More info about the wiring can be found here: https://github.com/ikorb/gcvideo/tree/main/HDL/gcvideo_dvi

Take note that connection CLK SEL is "color select" and DATA is actually ADATA.

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