Ashley Lycan
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Hello everyone
Since i got my hands on a Fat PS3 and managing to bring it back to life, i was fascinated by the internals and wanted to lean more. On top, wanting to make up for my previous delidding victim, i decided to get my hands on more consoles to learn how to repair them and see if i could get them running again.
I currently have 4 PS3s:
PS3 #1: CECHG03 with SEM-001 1-873-384-11 board:
This one has a 48 second GLOD, after which it shuts off with no beeps.
Reading its Syscon log shows A08014FF and A0801701 errors, which don't do much to point to any particular fault.
I took the console apart further and there appear to not be any signs of previous repairs, other than some odd solder balls under the FBVDDQ cap of the RSX and a resistor by the Syscon, but they don't seem to cause a short, so I left them alone for now.
RSX resistances seem pretty suspect, especially VDDC at 1.4 Ohm, though I don't know what healthy resistances would be for a 90nm RSX. I attached a photo with the resistances i measured. To note, these resistances get lower by quite a bit when the chip warms up (VDDC: 1.3Ohm, FBVDDQ: 85Ohm, VDDR 103 Ohm, VDDIO: 65.6 Ohms)
If anyone got any ideas on what i should check next, please let me know.
PS3 #2 CECHC03 with COK-002 1-873-513-31 board:
This one boots, but crashes shortly after with green artifacts.
It appears to be what someone would call a "heatgun special'. One of the tokins is completely cracked open, while the others are melted, and the RSX chip has visible burns and missing the balls on the corners.
Given that RSX resistances seem "healthy", im not fully disregarding the idea that the damaged Tokins could be noisy enough to be the cause of the artefacts, even if the fault is most likely the crispy GPU or both.
Reading the Syscon log doesnt reveal much other than that the CPU probably needs delidding, since its overheating even with fresh MX-6 on top the IHS
PS3 #3 CECHC04 with COK-002 1-873-513-21 board:
This one has an instant YLOD with A0093004 errors.
I was originally bought as a PSU donor for PS3 #4, with a little hope of also getting the board to work.
It has had water damage around the power ribbon header and GPU VRM controller (IC6201).
I cleaned up the corrosion around both, replaced the chip and a few resistors at the top that were affected , though I'm not sure I got the right values on them, probably explaining why I'm still missing RSX VDDC.
Are there any other points I should check that could cause vcore to be missing?
PS3 #4: CECHG04 with SEM-001 1-873-384-21 board:
This one is my original Fat that kickstarted it all. Its previous owner stole its power supply and had attempted to delid both the Cell and RSX, but applied thermal paste only on top of the CPU IHS, causing the console to YLOD because it was overheating. So I re-did the delid and applied fresh MX-4 to both, but glued the CPU IHS back down with 4 small dots of super glue, a stupid mistake that I used to make when i was starting out with delidding stuff, have since switched to high temperature silicone for re-liding.
It worked great for a year and a half, but unfortunately it gave in with 3034 and 4432 errors a month ago. I believe these were caused by the Cell, since it endured a lot of abuse, and because errors 1601 and 1701 showed up before 3034. I took it apart again, and the force of the thermal paste pops the CPU lid off again, and in an attempt to clean the superglue, i cut a trace on it.
I still hope to fix this one someday, but yeah it dead for now.
Since i got my hands on a Fat PS3 and managing to bring it back to life, i was fascinated by the internals and wanted to lean more. On top, wanting to make up for my previous delidding victim, i decided to get my hands on more consoles to learn how to repair them and see if i could get them running again.
I currently have 4 PS3s:
PS3 #1: CECHG03 with SEM-001 1-873-384-11 board:
This one has a 48 second GLOD, after which it shuts off with no beeps.
Reading its Syscon log shows A08014FF and A0801701 errors, which don't do much to point to any particular fault.
I took the console apart further and there appear to not be any signs of previous repairs, other than some odd solder balls under the FBVDDQ cap of the RSX and a resistor by the Syscon, but they don't seem to cause a short, so I left them alone for now.
PS3 #2 CECHC03 with COK-002 1-873-513-31 board:
This one boots, but crashes shortly after with green artifacts.
Reading the Syscon log doesnt reveal much other than that the CPU probably needs delidding, since its overheating even with fresh MX-6 on top the IHS
PS3 #3 CECHC04 with COK-002 1-873-513-21 board:
This one has an instant YLOD with A0093004 errors.
It has had water damage around the power ribbon header and GPU VRM controller (IC6201).
Are there any other points I should check that could cause vcore to be missing?
PS3 #4: CECHG04 with SEM-001 1-873-384-21 board:
This one is my original Fat that kickstarted it all. Its previous owner stole its power supply and had attempted to delid both the Cell and RSX, but applied thermal paste only on top of the CPU IHS, causing the console to YLOD because it was overheating. So I re-did the delid and applied fresh MX-4 to both, but glued the CPU IHS back down with 4 small dots of super glue, a stupid mistake that I used to make when i was starting out with delidding stuff, have since switched to high temperature silicone for re-liding.
It worked great for a year and a half, but unfortunately it gave in with 3034 and 4432 errors a month ago. I believe these were caused by the Cell, since it endured a lot of abuse, and because errors 1601 and 1701 showed up before 3034. I took it apart again, and the force of the thermal paste pops the CPU lid off again, and in an attempt to clean the superglue, i cut a trace on it.
