Grey Ghost
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An update from my last post:
I took a food break after making my post and before cleaning up the HH01, I wanted to see if the YLOD triggered.
It did.
To figure out why, I remembered a post (I think from Squeept) that said you can tell if the YLOD is due to needing a reball by putting some weight on the motherboard. So I did, I put maybe about 10lbs of weight from my thumb pressing down on the clamp where the RSX is and booted the PS3. It booted perfectly into the XMB. I then came off the pressure of the motherboard and within seconds the YLOD triggered.
I tried it again, but this time I kept the weight on there until I started feeling some heat coming off the motherboard clamp. After about 5 minutes I started feeling some temp in my thumb and let go. I booted the only game that was installed, which was Flow, and I was able to play it for 30 minutes before shutting it down for the day.
I think this was the reason why i didn't get a YLOD after disassembling the console to clean out the dust bunnies - the stress relief from the motherboard being unmounted allowed the BGA on the RSX to "relax" and make a new connection upon reassembling it to the point where I could boot it up and leave it on.
So definitely it seems the only absolute reason why this HH01 SKU gave the YLOD - is because the RSX needs a reball.
Im not sure where to go from here because I COULD do a reflow as I have a hot air station, but I dont have any way to currently rig up a way to do a proper reflow to hold the board flat as possible. And Im not going to actually do this as a side-hustle because the investment into the necessary tooling and time and more practice units needed to be consistent at doing this job exceeds what Im wiling to spend on this project.
I did come across Booter's youtube channel and he seems to be the guy where I'll send my personal HE01 to do the servicing mine needs (aside from perhaps the frankenstein mod)
So this is currently where I'm at. Im confident in reading the syscon, perhaps a reflow if I can find a way to affix the motherboard to a mounting plate of sorts to elevate it and keep it flat. But outside of that, I think i'll just stick with reading syscon.
One shower-through I had with reading syscon: After entering Internal mode... is there a way to get out of external mode, like instead of using "CXRF" I would go back to using "CXR" and just use the few minor commands available in external mode just to extract the error log? Or does that even matter? Would updating the official firmware have any effect on this? Would it brick the console?
I took a food break after making my post and before cleaning up the HH01, I wanted to see if the YLOD triggered.
It did.
To figure out why, I remembered a post (I think from Squeept) that said you can tell if the YLOD is due to needing a reball by putting some weight on the motherboard. So I did, I put maybe about 10lbs of weight from my thumb pressing down on the clamp where the RSX is and booted the PS3. It booted perfectly into the XMB. I then came off the pressure of the motherboard and within seconds the YLOD triggered.
I tried it again, but this time I kept the weight on there until I started feeling some heat coming off the motherboard clamp. After about 5 minutes I started feeling some temp in my thumb and let go. I booted the only game that was installed, which was Flow, and I was able to play it for 30 minutes before shutting it down for the day.
I think this was the reason why i didn't get a YLOD after disassembling the console to clean out the dust bunnies - the stress relief from the motherboard being unmounted allowed the BGA on the RSX to "relax" and make a new connection upon reassembling it to the point where I could boot it up and leave it on.
So definitely it seems the only absolute reason why this HH01 SKU gave the YLOD - is because the RSX needs a reball.
Im not sure where to go from here because I COULD do a reflow as I have a hot air station, but I dont have any way to currently rig up a way to do a proper reflow to hold the board flat as possible. And Im not going to actually do this as a side-hustle because the investment into the necessary tooling and time and more practice units needed to be consistent at doing this job exceeds what Im wiling to spend on this project.
I did come across Booter's youtube channel and he seems to be the guy where I'll send my personal HE01 to do the servicing mine needs (aside from perhaps the frankenstein mod)
So this is currently where I'm at. Im confident in reading the syscon, perhaps a reflow if I can find a way to affix the motherboard to a mounting plate of sorts to elevate it and keep it flat. But outside of that, I think i'll just stick with reading syscon.
One shower-through I had with reading syscon: After entering Internal mode... is there a way to get out of external mode, like instead of using "CXRF" I would go back to using "CXR" and just use the few minor commands available in external mode just to extract the error log? Or does that even matter? Would updating the official firmware have any effect on this? Would it brick the console?
