Nice, clean work! I like the writeup and details! Thanks for providing a console identifier (Karen)! Diagnosis based upon SYSCON codes and console behavior, good job!
The only thing I would like to have seen is an image of the CPU/RSX Noise on an oscilloscope. $350 is an expensive tool, I know, but if you're going to do this as a service then you should make the investment. It'll cover your butt when customers claim you bunked their console. The reason I 'd like to see the scope images isn't just to verify the noise and reduction after the AlPol caps, but to also get a sense of what that noise looks like for a console hinging on the edge. As I noted in my experiments with PS3#7 there is a zone where the scope looks okay, but it still throws 1002 errors (mine had RSX TOKINs with issues). And since yours was having 1001 errors, I would have been especially curious, because I suspected CPU tokins could cause that error, but couldn't prove it.
@squeept was seeing 1001s filling up the errlog when he was testing it. Then an RSX tokin was damaged in shipping and all I could verify were 1002s. So have been wondering about those 1001s ever since.
@Pacorretaco noted they can occur when you flip the PWR rocker off, like when the console freezes and you have to hard reset. So I'm sure he'll be quick to point that out. It's the one unknown in your analysis.
Nice job though. I'll add "Karen" it to my spread sheet!
