Vince's Ebay Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)
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You could change out its memory - It is absolutely doable but not sure I would take that on tbh - GPU's are generally a royal pita and an artifacting 2080 doesn't sound like fun given there are 12 gddr6 memory chips on the thing... what does sound like more fun is doubling its memory
- Taking it from an 11gb card to a 22gb card could be fun but you are looking at a £150 investment into gddr6 memory modules.Oooof so it's a memory chip issue ?You could change out its memory - It is absolutely doable but not sure I would take that on tbh - GPU's are generally a royal pita and an artifacting 2080 doesn't sound like fun given there are 12 gddr6 memory chips on the thing... what does sound like more fun is doubling its memory
It's got rhe Samsung chips thought they were better.
Tried undervolting and other things I could try first bud ?
drag the memory clocks back a few hundred mhz. It's almost always a dying memory chip but I guess it could also be a memory controller which are on die.
Will try thank you
done the oven trick and appears to be fine ?
Oven trick isn't a fix, if its a flip chip issue it will rear its ugly head again.
You could change out its memory - It is absolutely doable but not sure I would take that on tbh - GPU's are generally a royal pita and an artifacting 2080 doesn't sound like fun given there are 12 gddr6 memory chips on the thing... what does sound like more fun is doubling its memory
22gb wowsers how would that compare to the latest cards ?
Depends how strapped for memory the 2080 is... I would say it wouldnt make a massive difference outside specific memory heavy scientific workloads
seems to be running fine now lol, is it still worth repairing replacing the one chip or ?
Don
Still a case of working out which one though?
This is the crack... 12 chips and likely one or a pair faulty... How do you track them down?
Got some soldering done today - removed a Dualsense thumb stick and replaced it. Bloody hell that was a lot of work getting the original one off! I thought the desoldering iron would make it easy, but not really, needed a lot of braid and flux with a normal iron to get enough solder off to remove the stick without damage.
Clearly I need to improve my desoldering skills. Must’ve taken at least 3 hours in total!
Clearly I need to improve my desoldering skills. Must’ve taken at least 3 hours in total!
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I had a fight with a water damaged switch lite. I opened it up and spotted this on the backlight circuit...
Replaced that and still no backlight so I replaced the backlight driver and then the diode and the coil on the circuit, that got me booting and a backlight so that was like half the job because... no sound.. argh... now the sound circuit is fed from here:
You put 4.25 in and get 3v3 out or the other way around I dont remember but 3v3 was missing so I replace the driver chip for the sound circuit which bought back 3v3 but you know what still no sound, so then I replaced the sound IC which didnt fix it so I had to go digging a bit more... You see these caps south of the sound ic, they should have 4.25 on them but i was getting about 0.5 and being pulled low so I removed them...
As I started measuring back i found a break almost instantly between these pads:
and there is was massive resistance and our issue located! Ran a quick jumper:
Bosh... It lives!!!
I still do a lot of switches and Game Gears I just dont share most as im sure you guys are fed up of looking at them
I normally put an hour into a switch max but this one took about an hour and a half to diagnose and fix which although not bad felt like a lifetime. I feel your pain on the time it takes. All I can say is with experience things get much quicker.
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The trick on these is not to desolder at all but to go from behind with the hot air and just let them fall out
Guessing you need a hot air station for that…and it just works with those thumb sticks without anything fancy, just decent flux? If so I’m sold, has to be worth getting one rather than spending hours painstakingly removing all the solder with braid…would probably pay for itself quickly too, given the amount of braid I go through!The trick on these is not to desolder at all but to go from behind with the hot air and just let them fall out
Guessing you need a hot air station for that…and it just works with those thumb sticks without anything fancy, just decent flux? If so I’m sold, has to be worth getting one rather than spending hours painstakingly removing all the solder with braid…would probably pay for itself quickly too, given the amount of braid I go through!
Yea ive been running the same £35 rework station for about 5 years
Does brilliant tbh. It's an 858D