PS3 Frankenstein PHAT PS3: CECHA with 40nm RSX

leonemax81 said:
Hi guys, I need help on a PS3 COK-002. The PS3 turns on and shows a black screen, and after 20 seconds it turns off by itself. I only notice that before turning off the hard disk's orange LED lights up, without giving a YLOD error and without giving a flashing red LED. It turns on and off, the syscon does not show any errors. Any help is appreciated. I have never had such a strange problem.
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Overheating?
 
Probably a dumb question but how did I just frankenstein a PS3 on 2.50? Ive always had issue with anything under like 3.42 FW and a 40nm.

It does appear to have CFW. Is it really on 2.50?
 
Ganjo said:
Probably a dumb question but how did I just frankenstein a PS3 on 2.50? Ive always had issue with anything under like 3.42 FW and a 40nm.

It does appear to have CFW. Is it really on 2.50?
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Yeah that doesn't sound right, I'm not sure CFW that low even exists. I certainly can't find any .PUPs for CFW below ~3.4X
 
Hi guys, I'd like to share my story to see if I'm unique. This situation has happened to me a couple of times and I can't explain it.

I have a perfectly working PS3 Slim 25xx, RSX 40Nm, RSX_VDDC measurement of 1.4 Ohm, a low value for a RSX 40Nm. But since the PS3 Slim appears to be working, I proceeded to recover the RSX 40Nm and then perform a Frankie on a PS3 60GB. Result? Frankie not working. Instant YLOD, with no errors in the Syscon.

I then replaced the RSX 40Nm with a new one with a RSX_VDDC value of 2.8 Ohm, and the PS3 Frankie works perfectly!

I reinstalled the RSX 40 Nm RSX_VDDC 1.4 Ohm on my PS3 Slim 25xx and it works perfectly again.

My question is: why, if I use the RSX 40 Nm RSX_VDDC 1.4 Ohm on the Frankie, it doesn't work, showing instant YLOD, while on the Slim it works perfectly?
 
Im willing to bet if you lowered vddc in syscon it would have worked. Two things have caused ylod with no error codes for me. A bad RSX and vddc being too high for the RSX. It's usually those super slim RSX's I have issue with.

I don't know the addresses off the top of my head to change vddc. It's probably easier to just use syscon general or something similar:

studiohalabi.com

Download PS3 Syscon General app | Studio Halabi

PS3 Syscon General is a free cross-platform tool for PS3 Syscon UART repair and modding. Dump error logs, customize fan curves, patch RSX addresses for Frankenstein mods, and monitor CELL/RSX temps via USB UART.
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I don't understand. If I lowered the VDDc voltage to 0.95 volts, would the Frankie work?

Because I make the 0.95 volt adjustment after the job is complete.
 
luvbuckets said:
That shouldn't be possible. A firmware that low should give 1701 with a 40nm installed.
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I installed GTAV and it didnt ask to update FW so it must be on a higher FW. I didnt know you could spoof the FW or what exactly it does. I just had to un-frankenstein another unit with 1701 that was on 2.53FW.
 
Ganjo said:
I installed GTAV and it didnt ask to update FW so it must be on a higher FW. I didnt know you could spoof the FW or what exactly it does. I just had to un-frankenstein another unit with 1701 that was on 2.53FW.
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You don't need to do all of that. Buy a flashcat, manually patch the nands and do a blind update with 3.55
 
Ganjo said:
I installed GTAV and it didnt ask to update FW so it must be on a higher FW. I didnt know you could spoof the FW or what exactly it does. I just had to un-frankenstein another unit with 1701 that was on 2.53FW.
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Hmm that's quite strange but yeah installing GTA 5 would indicate it's a spoofed FW, but IDK why someone would do that.
 
leonemax81 said:
I don't understand. If I lowered the VDDc voltage to 0.95 volts, would the Frankie work?

Because I make the 0.95 volt adjustment after the job is complete.
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He is not talking about VDDR, the 0.95volts is for VDDR. He was talking about VDDC, that is a different voltage entirely and it seems it can be edited from syscon these days.
 
luvbuckets said:
Im willing to bet if you lowered vddc in syscon it would have worked. Two things have caused ylod with no error codes for me. A bad RSX and vddc being too high for the RSX. It's usually those super slim RSX's I have issue with.

I don't know the addresses off the top of my head to change vddc. It's probably easier to just use syscon general or something similar:

studiohalabi.com

Download PS3 Syscon General app | Studio Halabi

PS3 Syscon General is a free cross-platform tool for PS3 Syscon UART repair and modding. Dump error logs, customize fan curves, patch RSX addresses for Frankenstein mods, and monitor CELL/RSX temps via USB UART.
studiohalabi.com studiohalabi.com
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Can you specify how did you decide voltage was too high? How much did you lower it ?
 
Hello, I've made two frankenstein mod on two ps3 fat CECHC, but both of them freeze after few hours with Gran Turismo 6 demo, I suspect that the problem is with the temperature profile that I use for leaded solder so there are some cold joints. As bga machine I have a Honton HT-R392 and I use this leaded profile:
Upper hot air:
0.50 145 45
3.00 165 35
3.00 185 25
2.00 225 25
3.10 120 5

Bottom hot air:
0.50 155 25
3.00 175 35
3.00 195 25
2.00 230 25
3.10 120 5

Time above 183°C is about 60-90 seconds and it reached a peak temp of 206°C.
I used flux amtech nc-559 for soldering.

I want to specify also that for the voltage mod I used the unofficial method that works only on 40 nm GPUs, not the one with the BD3504 that Sony used, can this be the issue?

Please help me, thanks in advance.
 
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stefanotk said:
Hello, I've made two frankenstein mod on two ps3 fat CECHC, but both of them freeze after few hours with Gran Turismo 6 demo, I suspect that the problem is with the temperature profile that I use for leaded solder so there are some cold joints. As bga machine I have a Honton HT-R392 and I use this leaded profile:
Upper hot air:
0.50 145 45
3.00 165 35
3.00 185 25
2.00 225 25
3.10 120 5

Bottom hot air:
0.50 155 25
3.00 175 35
3.00 195 25
2.00 230 25
3.10 120 5

Time above 183°C is about 60-90 seconds and it reached a peak temp of 206°C.
I used flux amtech nc-559 for soldering.

I want to specify also that for the voltage mod I used the unofficial method that works only on 40 nm GPUs, not the one with the BD3504 that Sony used, can this be the issue?

Please help me, thanks in advance.
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Do you have tantalizers? I've found such info "Freezes on GT6 most probably are showning upcoming Tokins replacement necessity "
 
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