Picture this; You wake up in the morning, and you try to turn on
your gamecube; you push the button, and you hear a whirring
noise, but nothing else happens.  NOOOOOO! the guys are coming
over to play Super Smash Bros. in a couple of hours, and the
gamecube doesn't work!  Before you launch into a bunch of
"that's what you get for buying a gamecube. loser!'", I know, I
don't want to hear it.  For those of you who love your cube,
though, I hope this helps.  Step 1: What went wrong?  If there
has recently been a power surge where you live, that may be
responsible for the problem you are having.  The symptoms are as
follows: the external power supply functions normally, but when
you plug in the cube and push the power button, the fan turns
on, but nothing else happens; no light, no video, no spinning
disc, nothing.  Nothing you do changes this condition.  So
what's wrong? is the gamecube fried?  The Nintendo maintenance
procedure for fixing this problem is to replace the entire
board, which, obviously, is expensi