How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?

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Crazy Nate

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Re: How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2011, 06:59:21 PM »

I got one for $16.00 and $8.56 shipping.

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Re: How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2011, 09:16:22 AM »

I got one for $16.00 and $8.56 shipping.

And if you were lucky, the thing worked. But I wouldn't recommend that. They are selling those cubes on ebay with bad lasers. What they do is that when a lasaer is shot, someone turns the voltage up so it works for a few weeks. Then they put it up for sale, it works for a few weeks and then you get the disk read error again. Especially on the great games that load a lot. Because the laser is basically shot.

My advise is to go ahead and get yours repaired with guarantee. There is no guaranteee of anything when buying gamecubes from Ebay, Amazon, Craigslist or any such venues. I had that happen to me two years ago, twice in one month, and I will never buy a used cube from those venues again. There's no accountability there except that they guarantee you will receive it or get your money back. After that, you're on your own. Buy one here or some other reputable shop that guarantees its work. That's my advice.



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Re: How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?
« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2011, 08:45:56 AM »

 No one ever did say what would be wrong with it if it's not a dirty lens or dirty game.

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Re: How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2011, 10:39:31 AM »

 No one ever did say what would be wrong with it if it's not a dirty lens or dirty game.

It would probably be a bad laser.

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Re: How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2011, 01:31:17 PM »
or a bad board.

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Re: How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?
« Reply #20 on: May 25, 2011, 03:25:05 PM »
If your laser is going bad and that is causing the Disk Read Error, you can prolong the life of the gamecube by turning up the voltage. Just so long as you know this is a stop gap measure for a few months, not a permanent fix. You will still have to eventually get a new laser.


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Re: How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2011, 05:41:04 PM »
Nesman. Please, how do you do that? This is the second time I've heard that. You're talking to a rookie. What's involved?


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Re: How Do You Fix A Gamecube Disc Read Error?
« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2011, 11:53:04 PM »
Nesman. Please, how do you do that? This is the second time I've heard that. You're talking to a rookie. What's involved?

All right, well if your laser is having problems reading your games the first course of action is to clean the laser and game disk. If you have already cleaned the laser and disk and are still having problems the next step is to increase the laser voltage. Because in the early models, after time the laser would become weak and would be too weak to read the disk information. That's when you can increase voltage as a temporary fix. Because if you have to do this, it means your laser is dying anyway and sooner or later you'll need a new one.

Step 1 Remove the gamecube case, the fan and then lift up CD assembly

Step 2 Remove the metal shielding from the underside, held on by tiny screws.

Step 3 Look at the underside of the circuit board and locate the tiny voltage control.


Step 4 Take a small Phillips head screwdriver and turn it a tiny bit clockwise. Don't turn it a lot or you will give it too much voltage. Just enough so it reads games.

Step 5 TEST: Do this by reassembling the gamecube without placing any screws back in yet. Plug it in and test. If it works, you've done it. If not, you may have to increase the voltage a little more.

Step 6 Of none of this worked, and you adjusted the voltage control more then 30% of one full turn then your laser is shot and you must get a new one.

If it worked, then get your screws and put your gamecube back together the same way you took it apart.