Snake_Plissken92
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Hi guys, i wanted to share a possible fix for anyone that might have this syscon error codes combo: 3034, 4402, 1601, 1701.
Bit of background: so i bought this slim CECH - 3004A and every time i tried to power it up it would work for several seconds and then shut off, no light. It had mild damage on plastic but nothing serious. I took it apart and pulled the error log, to my surprise it had this combo of codes that i got first time ever 3034, 4402, 1601, 1701. I went to investigate and eliminate one by onewhat the coulprit could be, since wiki states 1601, and 1701 could be related to cracked balls and 3034 could be CELL or RSX and 4402 states the same.
Things i tried:
- Swap HDD for better one and reinstall the software (in case the one inside is bad)
HDD was ok, console still shuts off.
- Swap PSU ( in case the one inside had some sort of malfunction or maybe components were damaged and it shuts the console off)
PSU was ok, console shuts down.
- Change thermal paste incase the one inside was overheating console.
Thermal paste was ok, console still shuts down.
After reading a lot of threads online, i wasn't able to find the exact problem so the only thing left to try was reballing the CPU and or GPU.
I know it was stupid of me to not pre bake the board, because i don't have the oven, (but i do have honton r490 rework station so yea *facepalm*)
So i have prepared the board ( aluminium tape around the cpu and holes, put some flux around the chip) I start the machine and set the profile to 775 socket cpu ( i read on brasilian forum that 775 cpu socket profile works for ps3 and you don't even have to delid so i was experimenting with it for a while)
anyway the temps were climbing and when it reached 250 °C (there are 8 stages on the machine, when it gets to stage 7 i always know it will loosen up the balls, so then i nudge the chip a bit and it always moves) i then remove it with suction pen and set it aside to cool down. I wasn't sure if the board is going to survive since it wasn't prebaked but i was happy how easily the chip gets removed with this machine.
I cleaned the chip with soldering iron, used stencils and templates to put new solder balls and added a bit of flux (not too much), heated with hot air gun ( inspected every ball under the microscope). But i fucked up while cleaning the board. Two pads were missing, but as i saw they weren't connected to anything so i thought i was good to proceed with reballing. Cleaned everything and smeared some flux on board, got the chip aligned, start the machine and prayed for this to work.
At the end i let the board cool down, thank god there were no serious crackling sounds, or delamination. I assambled the console, put new paste and turned it on.
Console booted without problems ( guess i was lucky with those pads) so i was waiting in safe mode for few minutes to see if it's going to turn off again, and it didn't! I was so happy that i installed the software, jailbroke the console and even manage to install webman and other apps. Temps were excellent and console was working. I will continue to monitor this console, but as you can see it works.
So if anyone has the same problem this fixed problem for me. Sorry for such long post, but i had to share my story since i didn't have much experience with reballing. This is my first actual reballing ( i tried removing chips from the board when i first got the machine few months ago, it was really terrible, a lot of delamination and popcorning especially on super slim models. But lessons are learned today.
Bit of background: so i bought this slim CECH - 3004A and every time i tried to power it up it would work for several seconds and then shut off, no light. It had mild damage on plastic but nothing serious. I took it apart and pulled the error log, to my surprise it had this combo of codes that i got first time ever 3034, 4402, 1601, 1701. I went to investigate and eliminate one by onewhat the coulprit could be, since wiki states 1601, and 1701 could be related to cracked balls and 3034 could be CELL or RSX and 4402 states the same.
Things i tried:
- Swap HDD for better one and reinstall the software (in case the one inside is bad)
HDD was ok, console still shuts off.
- Swap PSU ( in case the one inside had some sort of malfunction or maybe components were damaged and it shuts the console off)
PSU was ok, console shuts down.
- Change thermal paste incase the one inside was overheating console.
Thermal paste was ok, console still shuts down.
After reading a lot of threads online, i wasn't able to find the exact problem so the only thing left to try was reballing the CPU and or GPU.
I know it was stupid of me to not pre bake the board, because i don't have the oven, (but i do have honton r490 rework station so yea *facepalm*)
So i have prepared the board ( aluminium tape around the cpu and holes, put some flux around the chip) I start the machine and set the profile to 775 socket cpu ( i read on brasilian forum that 775 cpu socket profile works for ps3 and you don't even have to delid so i was experimenting with it for a while)
anyway the temps were climbing and when it reached 250 °C (there are 8 stages on the machine, when it gets to stage 7 i always know it will loosen up the balls, so then i nudge the chip a bit and it always moves) i then remove it with suction pen and set it aside to cool down. I wasn't sure if the board is going to survive since it wasn't prebaked but i was happy how easily the chip gets removed with this machine.
I cleaned the chip with soldering iron, used stencils and templates to put new solder balls and added a bit of flux (not too much), heated with hot air gun ( inspected every ball under the microscope). But i fucked up while cleaning the board. Two pads were missing, but as i saw they weren't connected to anything so i thought i was good to proceed with reballing. Cleaned everything and smeared some flux on board, got the chip aligned, start the machine and prayed for this to work.
At the end i let the board cool down, thank god there were no serious crackling sounds, or delamination. I assambled the console, put new paste and turned it on.
Console booted without problems ( guess i was lucky with those pads) so i was waiting in safe mode for few minutes to see if it's going to turn off again, and it didn't! I was so happy that i installed the software, jailbroke the console and even manage to install webman and other apps. Temps were excellent and console was working. I will continue to monitor this console, but as you can see it works.
So if anyone has the same problem this fixed problem for me. Sorry for such long post, but i had to share my story since i didn't have much experience with reballing. This is my first actual reballing ( i tried removing chips from the board when i first got the machine few months ago, it was really terrible, a lot of delamination and popcorning especially on super slim models. But lessons are learned today.
