Recent content by nick0183

Hi everyone! I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I’m fairly new to PS3s, but have quite a bit of experience doing Xbox 360 BGA rework/RE and iPhone board level repair. I have a DIV-001 board I would like to recover data from. The old board looks really rough, lots of corrosion everywhere, so I...

Update: I managed to fix the console. A shorted ethernet PHY was crashing the southbridge. Removing the chip fixed the issue.

Hi guys! I got this PS3 Super Slim (NPX-001) a few years ago for free. I barely knew anything about PS3s (I'm more of an Xbox guy) so I had set it aside till a few days ago. I did some research on fault finding and troubleshooting yesterday and I decided to give it a try. The console turns on...