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 thought it would be easier to just do a CELL/FLASH/SYSCON swap onto a working donor. The thing is, I don't have another DIV-001 board, only DIV-002. The boards themselves are fairly similar, with DIV-002 having a newer 65 nm RSX and a redesigned GPU VRM. If I were to do a board swap, I suppose I could get the 65 nm RSX working by writing the corresponding training data, but I'm unsure whether the DIV-001 syscon would play nicely with the redesigned RSX VRM. I compared the two datasheets, and while both are Intel VRM10 compliant (use the same VID tables), I'm still hesitant. I also did some reading on the syscon, perhaps I could rewrite the SPCR region? Has anyone else attempted something similar? Any input would be appreciated!
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 thought it would be easier to just do a CELL/FLASH/SYSCON swap onto a working donor. The thing is, I don't have another DIV-001 board, only DIV-002. The boards themselves are fairly similar, with DIV-002 having a newer 65 nm RSX and a redesigned GPU VRM. If I were to do a board swap, I suppose I could get the 65 nm RSX working by writing the corresponding training data, but I'm unsure whether the DIV-001 syscon would play nicely with the redesigned RSX VRM. I compared the two datasheets, and while both are Intel VRM10 compliant (use the same VID tables), I'm still hesitant. I also did some reading on the syscon, perhaps I could rewrite the SPCR region? Has anyone else attempted something similar? Any input would be appreciated!
