Vince's Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)
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Astrobot, great game.
Does anyone know where to buy the little rubber doughnut mount things for the dualsense. You know the board has little slots for them and they mount it in the case. I was going to finish my dualsense this week, but one as gone missing. I don't know how, it was just in a box, I've looked all over, but can't find it. Can't find any online because I'm probably searching the wrong thing.
Thanks.
You mean little rubber doughnuts of joy?
Send me your addy in dm. I suspect they would be called a mounting gromit but who knows. Also not all the pads have them I'm not even sure they make that much of a difference when it's all back together. Even some pads of the same model, some have em, some don't.
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You mean little rubber doughnuts of joy?
Send me your addy in dm.
Yep, exactly them. Have no idea how it vanished, I really careful putting everything away and still one vanished.
Got it will pop a couple your way tomorrow
8 of these came... I normally don't grab one S but at 15 each for 500gb and 20 each for the 1tb models it's worth fixing em up. The cleaned up one was the first of the 8..
And yea the shells actually get steam cleaned because of the holes.
And yea the shells actually get steam cleaned because of the holes.
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I dont get told up front each one is a little box of mystery
- 4 are done! 4 to go!3 of them are beep on beep off, one is no power at all! Should be interesting.
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Thanks, I appreciate it
.Will try to finish the controller next week, actually motivated now because of the new astrobot levels
. I will take this moment to shill astrobot a bit more, it's a great game, anyone who has a ps5 should play it.
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No power at all one was fun! Had to dig around loads but eventually found a little 5v regulator that had a short on an output. Swapped it out from a donor board and....
This was the little regulator that failed:
5 done...
This was the little regulator that failed:
5 done...
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Thanks, I appreciate it
Will try to finish the controller next week, actually motivated now because of the new astrobot levels
I forgot to send!! In London tomorrow but will try and run em off with the rest of tonight's packing
No worries mate, I aint in any rush. Already kind enough to send me some, so whenever you get the chance is fine.
Excellent as usual! How on earth did you troubleshoot that one? AwesomeNo power at all one was fun! Had to dig around loads but eventually found a little 5v regulator that had a short on an output. Swapped it out from a donor board and....
This was the little regulator that failed:
5 done...
Bit of a question. My good old trusty Logitech G9x has developed a faulty right click, basically it has a habit of double clicking when being held down.
Am I right that the micro switch will need replacing? If so is there a particular switch I need to look for?
Am I right that the micro switch will need replacing? If so is there a particular switch I need to look for?
Well I measured all of the inductors (good place to start) and they all looked good checked 12v rail, all good. Standby voltages were all present... So it was a secondary voltage rail. So I then had a little measure around on rails that would be activated on boot weirdly that buck was one of the first things I measured
I measured a 10ohm reading on an output cap, compared that against a donor and it should have been 25k. Pulled the chip, wacked a new one on. As soon as I popped in power and the fan did a little dance, I knew, I knew we were golden
That’s awesome! Did you do all of that whilst connected to your bench power supply, or with no power at all? Still can’t really get my head around this troubleshooting, so please excuse the silly question!!Well I measured all of the inductors (good place to start) and they all looked good checked 12v rail, all good. Standby voltages were all present... So it was a secondary voltage rail. So I then had a little measure around on rails that would be activated on boot weirdly that buck was one of the first things I measured
I measured a 10ohm reading on an output cap, compared that against a donor and it should have been 25k. Pulled the chip, wacked a new one on. As soon as I popped in power and the fan did a little dance, I knew, I knew we were golden
Just testing all the main power rails for shorts etc was all done without power then I put the bench supply to it to check standby power and probed all the standby rails. When they were all present I removed power and went hunting for shorts on the secondary rails. Seems to work quite well.
Fixed a beep on beep off last night with the help of my thermal cam. Put thermal cam on, pressed buttons lots and see what heated up, only one thing on the board was activating which was an on semi pmic, swapped that out and we had life!!
One thing I keep wondering with these, you see in this image the restart button is red, well, commonly you see this in green but I've had consoles where it's blue, red, orange, pink (a project Scorpio), and a few other colours. Nowhere is there any documentation as to what the colours actually mean. If it's red all the load bars etc will all be red.
This is showing a 106 error as no HDD or CD drive were connected so once I put it back together tonight we will be hot to trot.
Fwiw that was the last one, all 8 machines are now up and running.
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Common fault with them, there are 2 little microswitches one on each button. Pretty easy to swap out. Can't remember the exact switches to use but can remember them being cheap.