PS3 PS3 Frankenstein freezes

[stefanotk]

Hello, I made a Frankenstein mod on a PS3 CECHC, it had GLOD, now it works, however testing it with Gran Turismo 6, with the demo, after some minutes it freezes, it doesn't turn off by itself, the screen just freezes without artifacts. When I turn off the console after the freeze, it takes more time than usual to turn off and after a while that the green light is blinking it does three beeps and then it turns off with solid red light. The hard drive is tested and it works 100% with no damaged sectors. The syscon error log doesn't have new errors after the problem. Can the cause be the NEC tokins? I have not changed them yet. Thanks in advance.

 

[KubaJDM]

Have You changed voltages for CELL or RSX? GT6 without updateds is a trash. Check TLOU or other games, but remember update them to the latest version.

 

[stefanotk]

I undervolted the CELL but since it froze I have put the original voltage with the command w 3110 FF. Checked with r 3110 2 and now it's FF. But it still freezes. I'll try with the updates but I don't think it'll change anything since other consoles never froze with the game without updates.

I forgot to say that the CPU has a scratch that I did accidentally when I delidded it, can this be the cause? If I cover with solder mask maybe the problem can be solved? The traces are not interrupted, just exposed. The traces connect the CPU to the RAMs.

 

[SyrianClippy]

I undervolted the CELL but since it froze I have put the original voltage with the command w 3110 FF. Checked with r 3110 2 and now it's FF. But it still freezes. I'll try with the updates but I don't think it'll change anything since other consoles never froze with the game without updates.

I forgot to say that the CPU has a scratch that I did accidentally when I delidded it, can this be the cause? If I cover with solder mask maybe the problem can be solved? The traces are not interrupted, just exposed. The traces connect the CPU to the RAMs.

Yea that's most likely the issue, if the traces themselves got damaged then you have really nothing to do

 

[stefanotk]

Here is an image of the traces. Do you think they are damaged or some solder mask can fix it?

I noticed that when I set the resolution to a lower one (720p), it never freezes. At 1080i, it froze after 12 hours, and at 1080p, it freezes after 3-5 hours. I put solder mask on the scratched CPU, but nothing changed. What could the fact that the situation changes at lower resolutions indicate?