Recent content by Brendan Matthys

Absolutely. So I got a 2mm thick rubber washer and a 2mm thick nylon washer, stacked them so the rubber was touching the back of the board behind the CELL (not the CELL itself, but surrounding it) and the nylon washer was stacked on top. I then put the RF shield over the top, and tightened the...

Actually I solved it! In my case, the NEC/Tokins and the cap I knocked off were all red herrings. This console always had this issue, it just wasn't able to get to boot state 80 because of the NEC/Tokins, so when I fixed that, this error appeared. Reading through this page...

I'm having the exact same problem, on a CECHG02 board. I read syscon, got A0801002 consistently and replaced one NEC/Tokin cap with 4 470uf tantalums. This has worked on other boards in the past for me. RSX voltage is a steady 1.3v. CELL voltage is a steady 1.2v. One thing to note, in the...

Hi all, I'm after some advice here as I've acquired a CECHC02 with liquid damage. Cost me next to nothing but I'd love to get it going again, and I've been ripping my hair out for the past couple of weeks to try and figure out what's happening. So to start with, it was a glod, however booting...

I think I messed up... I had a PS3 CECHG02 that I bought broken and fixed, but it didn't come with its original BD drive. So I installed CFW and remarried it to a new drive, no probs. That was all fine, the problem started when I tried to put regular OFW back onto it. I tried installing it from...