Recent content by konza

Hello, I'll keep it as to-the-point as I can. I got a J model fat PS3 (DIA-002 board) untested and with a broken power button. The power button was broken because the contact pads rusted, but the button itself worked, and as I expected there was a YLOD, but luckily, the RSX seemed fine as the...

Turns out one of the missing caps I replaced had a cold joint on one side, now that I fixed that, the console turns on with a YLOD (again). I tried hooking it up to syscon, but it refuses to work no matter how many times I resoldered the test pads, neither external nor internal modes work. For...

I took the caps that looked the exact same as the missing ones from the G model and soldered them into the missing places. I tried turning the console on, but it instantly YLOD-ed, same as before. I checked the wiki and saw that F6302 had possibly blown and that I should check for shorts around...

The pictures bugged out and I can't edit the previous post. Here they are with proper formatting:

After the original post, the PS3 managed to stay on for around 2 hours (albeit with the top cover off, as the rusted buttons were causing a problem), I reformatted the HDD and I patched the flash memory to allow for CFW. But after I left it off for an hour or two, the 1002 errors were back as if...

Hello, I got a CECHJ04 model, I got it as "untested" because the power button isn't working. The button indeed wasn't working, because the metal pads that should transmit the touch were rusted, as I'd found out when I took it apart. I tried inserting a disk, which it took in and turned on, but...