Recent content by Mario87

Funnily enough this has been on my to do list as a project for literally 2-3 years now, just dont have much time and my main project (PS2HDMI) has eaten most of that last 2-3 years...well at least 2 of them, not done much with it in the last 6-12 months. A cheap FPGA would do the job just fine...

you will never get direct continuity from the power jack to the button on the front, there is no direct connection between the 2, but there are a lot of active circuits sitting in the middle. 1st thing to check is does your power brick actually work? Do you get 12VDC out of it when tested on...

Hi @Louay, I actually just came back to update this thread and saw you tagged me yesterday (e-mail notifications turned off) so good timing! :D Progress has been slow as my day job has had me out of the country almost as much as it has had me in the country due to various reasons and when I...

Bit of an update on this...so what have I done in the last 2.5 months, not a lot really! I got COVID, was away for work a lot and wanted to chill in my free time and over Christmas, so that was mid-Oct to now basically with no progress. Started working on this again in the new year and I now...

I think you didn't understand when I said " ...and hence only used a 2-pin power cables with no earthing", the PS2 slim PSU has NO EARTH, the mains supply cable has 2 pins going into the PSU, Live and Neutral, no protective earth at all! If you connect your chassis to Neutral then you have just...

The issue was most likely not down to a single bad component, but overall poor thermal design in the aim of cost savings. They say it was overheating…most likely just insufficient cooling around the switching MOSFETs would be my guess. However you say you want to disassemble the power supply to...

Think I finally have this part in red working, console can be reset and powered off, then when it comes back on it relocks, but I need to adjust the timing. Took a lot longer than usual to get this working and had me confused as it turns out he console will not allow a proper lock to initialise...

Take off one of the good ones on either side and measure it, 99% chance they will all be the same value as those appear to simply be decoupling caps for smoothing out the DC power rail, the console will likely work fine, even without it, but if you really want to replace it, measure on of the...

I am just going to leave these here, the link is to a video showing the development setup. This is my own custom design, some things to note... Console is a PS2 FAT SCPH-39003 (PAL) with GH-022 motherboard Overview of the pipline is as follows... Tapping into the GPU signals where they...

More of a high pitched squeal kind of noise and its not always from a coil, sometimes its the polypropylene capacitors, essentially at a specific frequency the PSU operates at the inductor or capacitor vibrates and causes this high pitched whine / squeal that some people can pick up on, but not...

Looks like there are signs of liquid damage, I would first fully tear down the console and then give the motherboard a thorough visual inspection front and back and look for signs of corrosion.

It's just not worth the time or hassle for someone to do, especially when you can buy an original MN864729 for £12 + P&P from a reputable UK seller. FPGA is expensive, time consuming, needs to be programmed at each power on cycle (of the FPGA, not console) would require a custom interposer to...

I don't have details of that specific model to hand, but in your shoes I would try to find a service manual / schematic and locate which fuses are responsible for the BD then measure them with a meter to see if they have failed or not and troubleshoot from there.

Are you sure the liquid metal didn't escape / leak out? If that is escaped and made contact with anything conductive then it would be game over. Liquid metal is not worth it, PS5 has had a lot of engineering R&D put into it to use liquid metal on such a device in mass production and you can see...

The real question is why though? If you already have 2 different region consoles why would you want to convert 1 of them using the 2nd? You already need 1 of each region to make this work so I fail to see any benefit?