Recent content by Srassyfrass

Hey man! Don't know if this will help or not but a month ago I fixed a CECHA01 which wasn't sending 5V to the drive. The problem ended up being C3247 (25V 47u) which was completely shorted to ground. It's also in parallel with C3246. C3247 was a tantalum cap on the COK-001 boards but was...

Are there still any good places to get NOS 40nm GPUs? I've been buying up PS3 slims with bad BD drives lately but it's been expensive

I'd be interested to know what other factors going to affect the quality of a reball. Presumably most people will have reballed using leaded solder for the plasticity But then you're also going to get differences of experience and process. I've done one reball and it didn't last long so I...

Just a question that Victor might be able to answer or anyone else. Any recommendations on good BGA rework stations or whether the more expensive machines do a substantially better job? I can't find anyone who offers it as a service in my country and I'm prepared to save up a couple of years...

Yeah, I thinking of the water cooler route at this point as a preventative thing. I want to go hyper aggressive to the point we hit ambient. That underfill shouldn't matter if the board never heats up! Tax refund is coming in and it's a big one so there's a 900W water cooler I have my eyes on

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185106168590

I have a feeling it's going to hit a pretty high price. I'll probably bid myself but it's probably going to quickly get out of my price range. What a bad time to have no money!

Thank you much for the detailed reply!

I have what's probably a dumb question. I know you can't use liquid metal with the aluminium heatsink but would it be possible to nickel plate the contact area of the heatsink to make liquid metal okay to use? Cheers for all your work!

Just want to thank you guys for all your work. Going to get into reading the SYSCON myself. Got 20 broken PS3s myself and I hope to be of some help eventually