Recent content by vaiz aragorn

Maybe i should try that too. I haven't replaced NEC's on the bottom side yet. But i'll try

So i desoldered all caps, and checked their capacities, some of them were around 500 but usually they were around 470uf. I resoldered them again and made the bridges, but it's still same. Nothing changed. I checked every connection i soldered, they are all fine. I don't knnow what to do now...

Oh nice, i'll check that asap

Ok then, i'll resolder and check all of them. My flux is really bad, i think it causes bad results tbh. Once i got all the tantalums off the board the should i have short between positive and negative on the pads of the nec/tokins?

@ElGris the tantalums i put shorted to ground on both sides, i don't know if it relates to anything or not. Also some of the caps under both rsx and cell are shorted too. I don't know where to check tbh. I want to try the reflowing rsx chip thing at last. Because it wasn't having instant ylod...

@ElGris I've replaced that section but still no luck, i'm waiting for the new caps for now. I don't know are there any other solutions i can try other than waiting for the caps. I think i also have instant YLOD tho, i don't know how can i check for shorts. Any suggestions?

So after i saw this thread, i just gone ahead and bought one broken ps3 with ylod ofc. It was just for fun. So i replaced all the nec/tokin's on the top side with tantalums. And added bridge wires. But it didn't change anything. Also while i was trying to pull nec/tokins off from the board i...