Vince's Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)

You know whats worse is that I have only used it for a few hours. I did have a weird boot issue with it a while back but put that down to updating drivers. its been ok since but now its dead, dead.
 
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Jesus... Destined for the bin now, or are you going to run the gauntlet?
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Could be a bios issue I guess... I can take the chip off and re-flash that - Ive emailed my aya contact see what they say but im about £500+ into this thing.... it remembers my rgb preferences but thats about the lot. Will not boot at all. Same old story fan spin but no life...
 
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Well stripped board out... Look at this random ribbon cable fix on this board...

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I just measured around that ribbon its not even fixing a missing ground its bridging a main power rail from one place on the board to another.

Ive paid all that money for a board they have bodged back to working lol
 
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So interesting... The bodge trace leads directly to the spi nor winbond chip... Or the bios.. now I don't have an API adapter but I do have wires...





So I'm going to pull an image of it's bios and compare it against the bios I just pulled off Aya neo site.. I didn't want to mess about with this... Argh...
 
So the bios is stored on the 256mb spi nor flash and the chip on this has a problem by the looks...I can't write a new bios to it as it fails validation.







 
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I will see what they say and in the meantime ill order a wson8 adapter and some of these chips

edit: got some chips next day from mouser. Lets see if I get the same errors writing to one of them. could just be a bad bios chip. The first time I tried to read it it came back empty but after a few reads it did read correctly and I could pull the bios. The other nor appears to match up with the device firmware file so I'll double check that one as well. After that it's ship it back to Aya again but after almost 6 months last time I dunno if I can deal with that.

I do have an issue that that bodge flex appears to be feeding the bios so I should measure that rail. Should be 1.8v.

Also the second flash chip looks to hold the device firmware I dunno ill try the bios first and see what aya say,... I cant be dealing with this device for a second longer than I need to tbh its consumed way too much of my time.. cool device, crap build, crap support... likes to break.
 
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Have you just been an unlucky customer twice, it are similar problems more widespread with these devices?

It's not like we're talking about one of the £100 retro handhelds, it's big toy money
 
Dyson said:
Have you just been an unlucky customer twice, it are similar problems more widespread with these devices?

It's not like we're talking about one of the £100 retro handhelds, it's big toy money
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I can see several of this model on eBay with the same problem... Threads on Reddit etc, seems to be wide spread. Is what it is. I'll try the bios and firmware chips then I'll probably bin it if Aya don't come through.
 
Aya have replied... Default turn it off and on again reply lol

I'm going to write a fresh bios to a fresh bios chip, fresh firmware to the 128k firmware chip and see what she does... I suspect the unit has multiple 1.8v rails and they used that flex to bridge the rails... Potentially putting too much onto the remaining 1.8v I'll need to measure if that rail is actually generating that 1.8v that feeds the bios chip.. or just wait for Aya and ship it back again.

I guess the question is, should you pay big money for a board that is basically bodged? It's a repair sure, they found a missing rail and fixed it. The question is, I guess, is that a proper fix?
 
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Vince said:
I guess the question is, should you pay big money for a board that is basically bodged? It's a repair sure, they found a missing rail and fixed it. The question is, I guess, is that a proper fix?
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I wouldn't be happy with that. If it's a out of warranty repair at a service shop and that's what it takes to get it going, fair enough. Manufacturer though, that's nonsense, should be a new board.
 
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I wouldn't be happy with that. If it's a out of warranty repair at a service shop and that's what it takes to get it going, fair enough. Manufacturer though, that's nonsense, should be a new board.
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If you want a job doing and all that.... It appears my device nuked it's own bios.

I get the irony, I call them cowboys while simultaneously ghetto wiring the wrong package Nor chip to the device that I programmed by soldering wires to it... Still if I can reprogram the original chip with this clean bios we should be golden.

To be fair wiring the bios up with the wires did allow me to probe voltages and activity on the chip while the device was booting so thats something.
 
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Back up and running under its own steam with the original bios chip re flashed with an older bios..



I recon that new bios is sketchy, it throws errors writing that bios to the new nor chips as well. The older bios worked just fine. Nice of Aya to be publishing a bios that seemingly has a good chance at bricking your device :cry:
 
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Glutton for punishment lol
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Be interesting to see if it has the bodge flex... Specs wise its ok, not as good as my one, my one is 6800u with 680m gfx, 32gb lpddr 6400, 1tb ssd. The new one is 6800u with 680m 16 gb lpddr 6400, 512gb. I could upgrade it to 32gb while I have it apart.. might look into that.
 
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