RIP-Felix
Senior Member
Hey all, new to forums and I apologize in advance if any of my etiquette is off.
Recently I got my hands on a CECHA01 and after a few days of use, I started noticing small blue artifacts on the XMB when the blur effect is enabled on the background (i.e. when viewing the status of a download). Shortly after this, it began freezing with audio still playing on games and homebrew apps, but with no accompanying yellow light or poweroff. The console was disassembled, cleaned, had its thermal paste replaced, had its power supply replaced with an APS-226, and I installed the ABS plastic brace from Studio Halabi's eBay store just for fun days before all of this started happening. It is running Evilnat 4.90 with a noBT patch, which was in an attempt to escape an update loop.
After rebooting, I checked the SYSCON via Evilnat's built in dumping tools, and found no new errors. Would accessing the SYSCON via a wired connection to a PC give me any more insight into what's happening when it crashes? If not, would anyone mind pointing me in the right direction for diagnostics?
Eek, artifacts are the early stages of GPU failure (usually GPU...especially color splotches).
If the RSX was delided, the stress placed on the BGA could have popped a joint in the BGA. Otherwise, it's probably the old fashioned bumpgate YLOD.
