ok i re wired the switch and still nothing.. i did a test with the battery connected and its a sold 7.4 volts from the in/output of the regulator. is there any other test i can do? i think if fried it . if i had the wires connected incorectly and added the battery could that have fried it?
thanks for your help so far it means alot.

ok i re wired the switch and still nothing.. i did a test with the battery connected and its a sold 7.4 volts from the in/output of the regulator. is there any other test i can do? i think if fried it . if i had the wires connected incorectly and added the battery could that have fried it?
thanks for your help so far it means alot.

You should be getting 7.4v input, 3.1-3.3v output. If you are getting 7.4v output from your regulator then your board is definitely fried now.

if i had the wires connected incorectly and added the battery could that have fried it?

Yes. I wired my first board with t he wrong voltage and it fried the board. The LED still came on but its dead. Most of the time the LED won't even light up when the board is fried.

yeah no worries practise makes perfect. thanks heaps fr your help so far, your the only one ho has given me the time to help! legend. could i also ask, when im checking the voltage form the regulator input, red obviously goes on input and where does the black go? aswell as the output just so be 100% iv done it right.. thanks again

yeah no worries practise makes perfect. thanks heaps fr your help so far, your the only one ho has given me the time to help! legend. could i also ask, when im checking the voltage form the regulator input, red obviously goes on input and where does the black go? aswell as the output just so be 100% iv done it right.. thanks again

Red goes on positive (what you refer to as input) and black goes on the negative or ground connection, whichever is applicable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3OyQ3HwfU

hi again, thanks for your  help so far.. im just trying to confirm the output voltage for the regulator.. i dont have a clue how to check if it is out putting 3.3V, do you have a vid or can you explain how i do it? like do i put the positive of the battery to the input and the negative to the output then just touch the connections? or

hi again, thanks for your  help so far.. im just trying to confirm the output voltage for the regulator.. i dont have a clue how to check if it is out putting 3.3V, do you have a vid or can you explain how i do it? like do i put the positive of the battery to the input and the negative to the output then just touch the connections? or

Do you have a digital multimeter which is capable of measuring DC current?

yep sure do at the ready

yep sure do at the ready

Positive (red) poker touches the output wire of the regulator (the one going from the corner of the regulator to the 3.3v pad on the N64 board. Negative (black) poker touches any negative point on the board (which is any ground connector).

thanks mate. do you have a pic of your video in wiring diagram at all? 64 board is now powering up thanks to you! i just need to to connect to the little lcd monitr 7" im using..

thanks mate. do you have a pic of your video in wiring diagram at all? 64 board is now powering up thanks to you! i just need to to connect to the little lcd monitr 7" im using..

Not offhand, no. I might be able to snap a picture soon though if I don't forget. It's pretty simple, wire the composite yellow cable to the signal pad on the board, and wire the ground to a ground point. Power the LCD from the 7v pad on the N64 board where your battery connects - make sure your screen can run on that much/little voltage first or you may risk ruining something.

ok all good. i tried soldering the yellow to composite but nothing the monitor and board powers up fine but it keeps saying no signal, i have a game in and the expansion pack.. god dammit!!

ok all good. i tried soldering the yellow to composite but nothing the monitor and board powers up fine but it keeps saying no signal, i have a game in and the expansion pack.. god dammit!!

Just to clarify - there is a center wire in the composite cable that is very small - this is the signal. The copper wire stranded around this inner wire is the ground. If you do not properly ground the video signal it will not output.

any new pics comming soon?

any new pics comming soon?

Hopefully during spring break I will have time to finish it more. Haven't done anything so far.

Hopefully during spring break I will have time to finish it more. Haven't done anything so far.

ok