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Vince's Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)
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Thank you mate top work as ever!
The only top work is the work that you do in this thread - fascinating to watch and I look forward to any updates
That was so fricking quick! It was only delivered this morning! Thank you, so so much
Ohh mr royal mail tells me you have mail
and we wait...
other companies need to follow the ayaneo playbook on high quality RMA / Repair procedures. "Its a matter of the motherboard" lads, golden. Its only taken us the best part of 3 months to get to this realisation! We are totally winning here. I really wanted to reply "well no **** sherlock" but I am not sure that would go down well so instead we just wait. Ill no doubt prod them again early next week for some kind of update.
other companies need to follow the ayaneo playbook on high quality RMA / Repair procedures. "Its a matter of the motherboard" lads, golden. Its only taken us the best part of 3 months to get to this realisation! We are totally winning here. I really wanted to reply "well no **** sherlock" but I am not sure that would go down well so instead we just wait. Ill no doubt prod them again early next week for some kind of update.
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Right what was a slow week is now immediately a mental week, your boi pulled the trigger on the following...
1x Series X
1x PS5 disc
1x steam deck
10x Nintendo DS
2x PSP
1x Vita
2x PS5 pads
1x Elite 2 pad
Perfect amount of stuff a few days before Xmas!! Guesses how much I paid on a postcard.
1x Series X
1x PS5 disc
1x steam deck
10x Nintendo DS
2x PSP
1x Vita
2x PS5 pads
1x Elite 2 pad
Perfect amount of stuff a few days before Xmas!! Guesses how much I paid on a postcard.
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About tree-fiddy.
I'm going with... £150.26p
Oh finally got around to ordering that USB scope from AliExpress you recommended. Will reattempt the PS5 when it arrives, can't face doing it with POS scope I have at the moment. It's... garbage.
About tree-fiddy.
I'm going with... £150.26p
Oh finally got around to ordering that USB scope from AliExpress you recommended. Will reattempt the PS5 when it arrives, can't face doing it with POS scope I have at the moment. It's... garbage.
Sadly it was quite a lot more than just about tree fiddy... Or even 150
Ok I shall tell you.. 600 quid in on consoles this week
- It will be really slow up to xmas they said! Not much coming in they said... Lies.
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yea no point trying to repair that
Ok today we are finding out once and for all what causes an issue I've come across multiple times... This won't be for the faint of heart...
This is a series X and this series X crashes when you fire up any triple A title. I've swapped it's PSU, I've cloned it's SSD and still it continues to crash.
Next to it are some donor boards I've harvested an Ethernet and some other bits from... Anyway I want to find out once and for all what causes the crash.. I suspect it could be one of two things.
1) Possibly the vrm fails to deliver power and the machine crashes (I think this is less likely but possible)
2) Memory, the series X has a dual memory subsystem with the majority of its memory 10gb running on a 320bit bus at 560GB/s and 6gb on a 192bit bus running at 336GB/s, could it potentially be that when a game pushes memory and hits that secondary subsystem?
Now I don't know the answer but I do have a donor board and I'm not bothered if I cook it... It's time to potentially find out...
I think straight off the bat I'll just swap the entire vrm from the donor. If the issue remains I'm going to swap one memory chip at a time until I've done them all or I've found the bad one.
To start let's pull off all the power stages mosfets..
Just pop them off and lay them out do we even know these are fully good? Not really but who cares, this is likely not going to end well and if i kill it I kill it for science.
This is one of the VRM's
This is the other...
And goodbye memory...
Right this is all the parts we might need.
Put simply we are either going to work out what causes this issue or we are going to break it. To be continued....
This is a series X and this series X crashes when you fire up any triple A title. I've swapped it's PSU, I've cloned it's SSD and still it continues to crash.
Next to it are some donor boards I've harvested an Ethernet and some other bits from... Anyway I want to find out once and for all what causes the crash.. I suspect it could be one of two things.
1) Possibly the vrm fails to deliver power and the machine crashes (I think this is less likely but possible)
2) Memory, the series X has a dual memory subsystem with the majority of its memory 10gb running on a 320bit bus at 560GB/s and 6gb on a 192bit bus running at 336GB/s, could it potentially be that when a game pushes memory and hits that secondary subsystem?
Now I don't know the answer but I do have a donor board and I'm not bothered if I cook it... It's time to potentially find out...
I think straight off the bat I'll just swap the entire vrm from the donor. If the issue remains I'm going to swap one memory chip at a time until I've done them all or I've found the bad one.
To start let's pull off all the power stages mosfets..
Just pop them off and lay them out
do we even know these are fully good? Not really but who cares, this is likely not going to end well and if i kill it I kill it for science.This is one of the VRM's
This is the other...
And goodbye memory...
Right this is all the parts we might need.
Put simply we are either going to work out what causes this issue or we are going to break it. To be continued....
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So let's start with the deck.. on the report card it says, steam deck - turns on, starts going slow, fan not working. Can confirm this happens so quickly open it up and I think I see the issue here. Fan connector ripped off the board! Simple fix here so happy days.
Connector back on the board:
I shall give it a whirl!
And there we have it, a fan that now spins... Happy days indeed.
So that's 1 item down and 18 items to go... Probably hit up the series X next as that needs a new HDMI port so might be a relatively quick win.
Connector back on the board:
I shall give it a whirl!
And there we have it, a fan that now spins... Happy days indeed.
So that's 1 item down and 18 items to go... Probably hit up the series X next as that needs a new HDMI port so might be a relatively quick win.
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I have a hunch this might be the issue with our series X
Ill fix this one next... I sat down and tested everything and I think we are looking good. lots of parts ordered in so over the next few days ill crack the ones out where i need parts. Oh and i sorted the elite pad to go along with this one!
Meh you dont want to see another series X port... its done.
Ill fix this one next... I sat down and tested everything and I think we are looking good. lots of parts ordered in so over the next few days ill crack the ones out where i need parts. Oh and i sorted the elite pad to go along with this one!
Meh you dont want to see another series X port... its done.
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ps5 has a short on its 12v rail.. have located and removed short! Now its the wait for parts!
This mosfet here was shorting 12v to ground.. I did remove quite a few things to find it
No idea what it does but can tell you it's not directly feeding the apu in any way so happy days. We might actually get lucky with this one as these sorts of shorts tend to immediately trip opc and the thing turns off.
This mosfet here was shorting 12v to ground.. I did remove quite a few things to find it
No idea what it does but can tell you it's not directly feeding the apu in any way so happy days. We might actually get lucky with this one as these sorts of shorts tend to immediately trip opc and the thing turns off.
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