Recent content by iKon

Interesting. Are you actually nudging the BGA during reflow, or just letting it sit and fully reflow on its own? My two cents: I only pull RSXs from known-working Slims. I try to avoid random loose chips where you have no idea what profile was used, how many times it was heated, or what damage...

Firgures Like hopefully ya get some use but its going to go some point hey they all go event he frankies at some point there electronics hahha

Man that scratch i dont thinkt hat is the problem that suck facts, If ya have not done the NECs i would my friend traces work or dont i am not under scope but from pick i dont see a fracture on em on or a cut the circuit is there you masked incase the IHS was doning something / short contact...

Nice man ill scope it out!

Worked for me! Thanks

I got to say on ps3s in 20 years i have replaced one port cause of physical damage and ZERO retimers or encoders hahah i hear about people and this stuff all the time i just never seen it not like ps4 and 5 and actually them encoders are rare to fail the hdmi port they get physcially screwed...

Hey man i was thinking about trying it to i got one board i got here with the CXD5302 wanted to give it a go and see what happens ill update if i get around to it but let me know if you ever actually get to the IHS portion im wondering how that will all play out as well! I did do a little...

YA try to dump and validate the NOR see what that dose for you :)

One thing to keep in mind though: if this is GLOD/no video The console may be reaching the point where it would normally display the "correct storage was not found" or storage rebuild/update message, but if the video output path is dead, you would never see that message anyway. That does not...

My experince with that error removing an RSX COK-001 == 0xa0202120 COK-002 == [SSM] PowSeq Fail : Detected ! & 0xA0201B02 On COK-002 it can be a bad RSX as well bad connection bad VRAM BAD VCORE bad circuit NET but confirm wise if you remove RSX you will get that error on COK-002 Just ran into...

COK-002 / E01 / Bxx board behavior with RSX removed: SSM signature: [SSM] state: 0103 -> 0303 [SSM] PowSeq Fail : Detected ! [SSM] state: 0303 -> 0700 Note: On COK-002, this can be normal missing-RSX behavior. Do not automatically diagnose board-side VRM failure from this alone. 0xA0201B02 I...

Ah well ya got the chip off so next buy you a working aslim 3001b and remove that chip reball it and put on that board then do the resistor mod and program syscon if that boots then do the voltage mod next then after that do whatever else ya want NEC replacement and such

Hrm good to know! Ill jot that down in the book!

YA well just soldering a few of them caps on there with old NEC is usally enough clean up of the vcore to get it to boot its not by anymeans a perment fix its to see if that is trully whats up log wise i deduce it is

Flux was a good move, but the big thing to understand is this: Without a real preheater, board support/jig, controlled thermal profile, and actually taking the solder into a true liquid state, you're not really doing a proper BGA reflow. You're mostly heat-cycling the board and maybe...