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@squeept Thank you so much for sharing your methods on diagnosis and repair! The one item in there I wasn't sure of though, what is the 'pressure test'? Is that just applying some pressure to the chips to check for faulty contacts? @RIP-Felix Congrats on pulling the trigger on the scope!! Can't...

@squeept Thanks for sharing your experiences and running these test! I was wondering what are some of your steps for determining the GPU is at fault, before moving to reballing the chip? Regarding the reball of the GPU, what kind of equipment are you using? Also what temp profiles are you...

Yea I wish I had an Oscilloscope to actually test those NEC/Tokins. The only thing I can note, is I do have 'supposedly new' NEC/TOKINs, fresh from the tape reel, and they do give a different read out than the one I've taken off the board. Still, that meter doesn't give us enough data to come to...

@niino trying the image again, since I failed to get add the link :(

@niino Here you go:

@RIP-Felix Do you have a lamp with the preheater? I find that is key for targeting specific areas and bringing them up to temperature, instead of getting the whole board hot enough to flow the solder again. When removing the capacitors, I'm running a profile of 90C for the preheater on the...

Hey everybody! First off a huge thanks to all those that came before and shared your experiences and knowledge! I've recently been diving in, attempting to fix some of these PS3s and have a few questions. Is there a valid test for an NEC/Tokin capacitor, that has been removed from the board...