bga

Just showing some balling work. I've been reballing since before the PS3 existed, and I'm almost 50 now, so this is just a quick speed-up of the process. :) Lately, I've found a few tricks with RSX flux amount and consistency that give me an almost perfect ball attach about 95% of the time...

So i have a questions i've been meaning to ask since i start doing reballing. It happens that sometimes (mostly on ps3 fat consoles) pads get ripped either during chip lift or while cleaning the area to prepare for reballing. Some pads are connected as i saw on schematics but some are ground. I...

I have a fat PS3 (CECHE) that got the YLOD a while back. Syscon shows error codes 3034 and 4412, so it appears to be a BGA failure. It has never been modded and has the official firmware, therefore the EID_ROOT_KEY was never dumped. I understand that this key is tied to the CELL processor, so...

Hi all, Now I am familiar with a lot of threads on this forum trying to explain why the 90nm rsx / Cell BE failed in the early models (and even in the later ones). (Thank you RIP felix :)) One reason that keeps on popping up is "thermal cycling" , it is even mentionned a couple of times on...

Reballing fix or fiction ? In reply to: And to avoid a reballing discussion in "PS3 Tutorial - NEC/TOKIN Capacitors Replacement - YLOD FIX" it's probably better to answer this in a separate topic. Enough research, not assumptions, to find on the web, e.g...