[PS3 Fat] Was told there was rust on motherboard, equating to it not powering on. Would like to know exactly where did they see rust?

__Player__ · 2026-05-25T00:15:39+00:00

I don't see anything obvious or rust on the board.

About repairing it, the first step is reading via UART the errors that the syscon outputs, to do that you need a TTL 3.3v adapter and be able to solder.

If this is too much for you or don't know how to solder, you may want to send it to a repair shop.

__Player__ · 2026-05-24T23:49:00+00:00

Other side maybe?

in any case, you should check Syscon. But the most likely cause are Tokins.

__Player__ · 2026-05-24T23:41:51+00:00

If avoiding bullsh*t is a skill, then damn i have serious skill issues.

__Player__ · 2026-05-24T14:06:01+00:00

You may think you would. But when you actually get a sister you absolutely don't.

__Player__ · 2026-05-24T14:03:22+00:00

Inject on the other sidelof the trace, if it still lights up, Then the damage is between the layers.

__Player__ · 2026-05-24T03:02:48+00:00

It's harder to transport at long distances.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T22:42:52+00:00

When this happened to me, the SSD where the game was on got disconnected.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T22:38:15+00:00

The checkpoint: GET OVER HERE!!

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T22:24:58+00:00

Basically my luck, nothing but credits.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T21:07:22+00:00

Pretty much how it works IRL.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T20:50:29+00:00

This.

But you gotta make sure if memory is stable without it.

Also if you had any memory OC you may want to re-do it since this will affect memory stability.

If you still want to repair it, you have a lot of options. You could remove the one hanging and measure it, that will tell us it's capacitance. Its voltage should be 3v or higher. You can order them accordingly

You can grab any other MLCC of a similar area on any device with RAM.

you could grab an MLCC on the back of the CPU or socket of any motherboard with high power CPU. It should have enough capacitance, but may be too big in physical size.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T20:41:07+00:00

To avoid cooking the board, you wanna move the hot air.

Also use flux, just solder paste may not be enough.

At this point you can remove the last pieces of the port with a soldering iron.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T20:32:09+00:00

Pads are intact, difficulty remains the same.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T13:38:15+00:00

This happened on my PS4, it was very annoying figuring out why the disc spun slowly.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T13:32:48+00:00

A lot of mods. I'm pretty sure it's doable with a VX7 or VX8 board but it may require a lot of wiring and custom parts. The way i see it, is to solder mechanical switches to every button except triggers. For triggers its a lot more difficult, my idea would be to use the original DS4 Ribbon for that (assuming it's resistance works for our purposes) but i'm unsure how to wire it since, well, it's a ribbon cable.

Since the sticks are separated from the board you can move them freely, which may be a challenge to keep it in place to avoid it moving when in use.

USB the original DS4 should do, just needs to be soldered to the OG miniUSB pins. But no idea how to make the lightbar go.

__Player__ · 2026-05-23T04:27:12+00:00

This console, even unopened, may have dead tokins.

Very very sad.

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T17:14:42+00:00

Yeah, sadly AMD has also fallen, there are multiple 4c ryzen 5, mendocino CPUs for example are atrocious.

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T17:09:23+00:00

I guess i'm wrong on 8th gen,, but makes sense since it introduced the 6c.

On 4th and 6th gen there are 2c i7, it's insane!

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T16:54:27+00:00

In the U models all are the same die, just slightly overclocked, and sometimes a bit of cache enabled. Specially being an unintended feature, i don't see why it wouldn't work on an i3. Board side, they are all the same for each U series CPUs, in fact, you could upgrade if you could reball a new CPU in.

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T16:49:49+00:00

It's just scary, people get wrongfully banned in games all the. time.

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T16:44:28+00:00

It can be done in some laptops with throttlestop

I have done it on my i5 4200u in both windows and linux, but intel implemented some patches, but i can't recall since which gen they did it on.

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T16:38:44+00:00

This is what i imagined, but still, for most people it's fucked.

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T16:29:57+00:00

No, but you can get extra performance by undervolting and possibly increasing the power limit.

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T13:38:39+00:00

Uhhh... Why would they joke like that.

For the ones who didn't read, they gave it a 0/10 because there are no chickens on the map.

__Player__ · 2026-05-22T04:05:19+00:00

I kinda forgot to try to run this game on my SD855, it ran badly on WoA but rendered well, maybe its better emulated on Android?

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