Recent content by reaper89971

Well i had the chip pulled and it does not have a complicated looking pinout its 54 pins/balls 6 by 9, I think i may already know what bga socket it is. I just have to pull it up online. I think its is the same pinout as the backwards compatible ps3 FBGA54 800mhz RDRAM 2.5v I have been...

Thanks for your reply You maybe right but let me see what i can do. I don't mind wasting a little time. I contacted a reverse engineering service near me. I may have the chip scanned or something like that. Find what secrets it holds. If the bios can't be reprogrammed how does...

Like i said above most people can't pull and hand reball the chip successfully. So the difficulty of it will keep most people from trying. With a stencil it won't be that hard. Im sure i can find a similiar stencil out there. But i agree with you, if it has been done no body wrote about it...

I did a little research and have mostly come up high and dry. Thanks for the advice but im going to dig in and get some info before i continue. Im going to pull the ram chip and reball it then try to identify what bga socket Sony has used. I have to figure out if there ram socket is standard...

Thanks for your reply Well your right, I was mistaken then. I thought they were solder pads or a bga socket. I guess the only way to add ram would be to get some higher capacity chips then. Am i Correct that Sony uses a custom bga package on there ram. Or is there ram standard? Again i...

Thanks for your reply Maybe i am wrong, On reprograming the bios that is why i am on here asking questions. I don't know everything about console But there are solder pads or bga sockets for ram on the bottom of the board. There must be a way to populate those slots and get the system to...

So maybe it won't work because of DMA controller bug but maybe it will work. Maybe i could program the bios to work around that bug with the 4 chips. Do you know if anyone tried to populate those empty ram slots. There on the bottom of the board on GH-019 and GH-022 there are a number of...

Thanks for your reply I understand that the ps2 is a game console for ps1 and ps2 games. But i just find it really difficult to believe that after almost 20 years nobody tried to populate those empty ram slots. You Sure the bios wouldn't just see it like normal. Maybe the games wouldn't...

Thanks for your reply I planned on running different OS, if i could get 64mb of ram on the board. So i planned on completely ditching the games since most lasers won't work anyway and just using it as a computer. I would do the hdmi mod though to upgrade the resolution of the console, that...

How much ram can the regular bios use? I was going 2 solder extra ram chips to a GH-019 motherboard. GH-019 has ram slots on the bottom of the board that are not being used. Gh-022 has them as well. Anyone try to populate those ram slots? You just need 2 motherboards that are identical

Hello I have always wondered if you could solder in extra ram into the fat ps2 buy taking 2 boards and taking the ram off another board. How much ram did the development console have? I am also wondering if i could solder in or reball the emotion engine with the faster emotion engine clocked...

How about a gddr5 upgrade, Has anyone out there tried to upgrade the physical ram on the board? I have got to ask my friend Tech Genius what chip vendor PS4 uses and is there BGA Package for there ram chips custom or ordinary? Would i need to make some kind of adapter or are there ram chips...

Sorry to hear about your system problems. Well maybe my friend can help Its Tech Genius in Montclair CA united states. He specializes in PS3,PS4,PS5,Xbox 1X etc. People from all over send him boards they can't fix and he fixes them. Its a small business but they are great

Thank you for your reply I didn't know upgrading the hard drive had become a problem. In the past i had upgraded my ps4 hard drive and i tried cloning using using software called EZ gig

Lol well thats a bummer sorry to hear that