Recent content by TimeWalker75a

Hey up, Was trying to install a Retro GEM into my V12 NTSC-U console (I'm in PAL territory) and let's just say things didn't go as planned. Upon inspection, the main flex had no bridging and continuity tests had confirmed so. Upon starting the console to test the analog output however it...

From people's experience, especially with their own consoles, can "becount" reported by syscon be trusted at all? I'm finding myself in a weird predicament. My original PS3 slim that I had since 2009 is showing 26 days uptime with ~ 580 bringups and ~490 power downs as per WebMAN. Which I...

I would't put it down as flux, it was way too milky in colour, almost smoke-like residue. The system has definitely been opened before, but I don't believe someone has gotten anywhere past opening the top shell and giving up, all the screws were pretty firm in there and the heads don't look like...

Upon opening the console and removing the upper RF shield originally, I could see halo like white markings around each of the B side Token caps, which seemed odd. There's nothing like that on the chip side however. It doesn't help that there's no schematic for DIA boards, but at least some of...

DIA-001, CECHH03, a very quick half a second YLOD. Not sure what to make of the 80 (PowerOn) state 1002 errors in the log, does that still fall under the suspicion of NEC/Token on RSX? As for the latter 2102, quickly swapped IC6301 from another board, as per OP indication, the code persisted...

Now that I'm back from my (hospital) hiatus .. Cheers for the diagram pointer, I do have a service manual PDF for COK-002 on hand but I'm so far rubbish in reading it, heh. Have gone over JL points documented and they appear to read fine. So .. moving onto something else. Is there any sensible...

RSX measures 1.1 Ohm, CELL measures 1.3 Ohm All the fuses (both marked on silk as F and the ones denoted as 0 Ohm SMD resistors) I could find read as open. So far, the only thing that may possibly induce a short is a package marked as 649 561J above the Marvell chip, for which lugs 2,3,4 all...

I can hear the HDD spin up and shut off (with an audible click on head return, the same way it would when you cut laptop power), but alas the HDD activity light stays dead the entire time. As for the USB power, I stuck a USB A/V meter in one of the slots to see if it would light up upon but, but...

Yeah, I figured the 1001's are just from flipping the power switch a bunch of times to get the system to turn off. What bugs me is that the YLOD codes (the initial lovely bunch of 3034 and 4411) are followed by a0902203, which the OP seems to denote as SB GLOD (fitting), implying the firmware...

Hiya, A long-time lurker, finally a poster. I have in me hands a CECHC03 that appears to have had the RSX reballed at one point (judging by the pool of flux on the board and an off-brand security label on the torx screw plug), then worked for some time as a BD player (came with a kiddy disk...