Recent content by bastiqui

Seems like good news! Hopefully you'll find the BGA sizes and can replace them, I'll look forward your progress! And of course, thanks for the testing, since it's time consuming and such...

Thanks for this valuable info! So it could be the memory, let's say in your case. Wish we had some more tools to test with. Today I've tried to contact another technician here in Spain to see if he's done something else, but there's been no news from him since 1st of August... Are you willing...

The images doesn't seems to work, but the email I've got I can see them. So hopefully the day you PGA it, it will be sooner than later. Maybe even @Frish 's answer about the voltage may be true. Only time and experience would tell us I guess. What a shame.

Hi, Fris! So another sealed were its ps2 mode works... Hopefully it won't break or anything. I'm gonna try to read more about the resistors and such so maybe I can get more to do with this CECHA00... Is there any useful threads I should look up to? Appreciate the help!

Hi, @RedOverlord Since it's been a while, did you get any further about this? I've tried to contact the person who was starting doing REBALLING and such but he just went missing. So no luck for replacing EE/GS from me (no experience and I don't have the equipment...). Hi @Kalulo24 A...

Thanks, but I wanted someone near just to perform the swap, test and keep testing other components if needed. For sure I can always just send the console and pray for the other person to record and tell me what she/he tried, so I can try and create a documentation. And from those three, being...

First of all, never heard from the chip CXD9028, maybe you're asking for CXD9028? And trying to answer this, as I said in this same thread, it's a mix of information about PSDEVWIKI and a ps2 excel sheet I've found on the Internet, I think that I already explained why there. And now about the...

Do you think it's because the RSX mod? Mine it's an original japanese ps3, I haven't found anyone here marked as "technician" who really wants to do this work (frankenstein mod and/or replace NEC tokins). I can do the NEC replacement, but for now, the console has been able to being for like...

Hi Flared! Wish I could bring good news, but the only person I've found, after December it hasn't replied to any DM, ppls keeps asking him for the project and I think it's totally dead... But I try to get more info, maybe this year I can finally update it with an answer or something.

I've got a new update, but I don't really know how it will go. I've met someone in a spanish forum who's starting to "learn" how to do reballing and ps3 mods (like the frankenstein one). We've speak about this theme and he's willing to try to do it, but first he wants to try to learn using dead...

Well, I've got no luck with any company near me, none of them "do repairs for ps3 anymore". I've created a new thread on a Spanish forum of people who likes retro games to see if by chance there is anyone who would take the job. No luck so far, I'll try to update this thread...

And which games did you tried? Are they exclusive japanese? I've tested like 7 PAL games and 2 NTSC JP games.

UPDATE: I have to say that I've been trying with a dead PS3 motherboard and I'm not confident enough of my skills, so before screwing up something, I've contacted a company that does soldering and reballing to see when can I go. The thing is to first replace the "CXD9208 IC" chip, test, if it...

Okay, I got the board COK-001 from @Supermaripro . This weekend I'll try and do the swap. Anyways, if it still not working, I'll try and do a reballing to the RSX as @mathieulh told me. I'll try to update the thread whenever I can, and hopefully I will come with a solution or a new problem...

So should I try and do a reballing for the RSX? I'll try to swap the EE+GS chip first and then I'll go and check the RSX chip.