I was walking home after my trip to McDonalds and someone threw a PS3 Slim CECH-2000 out of 8th floor (?) window with reckless abandon.Thankfully, no one was injured, even though this flying brick could've easily claimed some unlucky kid's life or dent a car's roof. I picked it up the remains to see if there's anything worth salvaging, and, to my surprise, it landed on some non-vital components (Wi-Fi and BT module, rear I/O).The hard drive is gone and so is the blu-ray drive (it had a copy of Battlefield BC2 inside). As far as I'm concerned, there is no damage to the board in where the rear I/O converter chips are, which means I can try to bodge wire some new ports in./g/, can I make the cut with a rotary tool to remove damaged/delaminated areas of the multi-layer PCB and remove the multiplayer shorts on the rough edge left by the cutting tool? What would you do, no matter how expensive and impractical it is, to try and salvage this thing that nearly killed me?
>>108944871wtf manif i were you i'd salvage tokin or keep it as a donor component boardwould risk buying a broken ps3 from ebay for a repair project out of that board
>>108944871i'm not an expert, but i believe the internal wiring is broken when the board is bent like that
>>108945135tokins are almost unsalvageable due to how they react to heat and how much of a heatsink this board are. you're better off using tantalum caps to match their frequency response>>108945136that's why I want to cut the bent/broken parts with a dremmel and sand the edge to ensure there's no shorts. this part of the board is pretty much clear of any connections that are essential for compute and most components are qfn, I'm thinking I can use syscon diag to look for failed init sequences and bodge wire the traces to essential components if there are any in this part of the boardI plan on bodge wiring the bare minimum of the rear I/O required to start and jailbreak the board (LAN and A/V out)
>>108945184>>108945135(me) i havent really touched ps3 boards tb his the board flat at the computer stuff?
>>108944871why did they throw it out of the window?
>>108945256your guess is as good as mine. gamer rage moment? misbehaving child and an angry alcoholic dad? someone not giving his girl enough attention and playing battlefield instead?
>>108944871posting in epic bread
>>1089448711. sell for parts2. trash it3. since you mentioned it nearly killed you: desolder a CPU from it or smth, drill a hole and use as decoration of your keychain.
>>108945296I want to try and fix it before I buy a broken console with something like a broken video out chip to fix it myself (even though I don't have a reballing station I ain't gonna sell a donor board I can use myself to fix consoles sold for parts).I know it's impractical but it would be funny as fuck if it plays out somehow.
>>108944871I'm gonna assume you instantly identified which PS3 model as it was falling down, and then remembered to dodge.
>>108944871Give it back, Jamal.
>>108945335I wouldn't want to catch it even if it was a backwards compatible model.1000 joules of stopping power is enough to fracture my forearm AGAIN or isekai me if I don't catch it right.
>>108945347I ain't coming near that house. Next time this cursed building will have something even heavier thrown out of it and killing me instantly, I'm sure of it
>>108944871nigger, that fucking thing is thrashed for replacement parts (if any of the components are still functional)if you're seriously extracting the parts on that thing, then go ahead if you have the right equipmentotherwise you'd better off getting ripped off by some chink or something
>>108945420I think I might want to try and cutting away the damaged part of the board before giving up on it and demoting it to a donor board
>>108944871>>108945114>>108945119Notice how there weren't any games in it.
>>108945451There was a disc inside.
>>108945435if you're legit trying to make that fucking thing functional again. Then good fucking luck not burning down your house in the process kek
>>108944871That board is done for.The PSU power connector is completely gone, so there's no way for the board to receive power.You also can't remove the CPU for parts. On PS3 consoles the CPU is married to the board.The RSX is the only worth while component to take from this, mainly for a frankenstein mod.
Not impossible to do multi-layer pcb repair, but pretty fucking close to it. I think you have to grind it back layer by layer to the middle/bottom, repair a layer, uv glue it, repair next layer, uv glue over that up to the surface..Nothing to lose, practice it. if it goes bad, you can sell the busted pcb like others mentioned.
>>108944871>Thankfully, no one was injured,shame, one less fat retard
>>108945256>look it's that weirdo again stalking those kids *hurls ps3* fuck off stop jerking off while looking at kids you creepy fuck!
>>108944871Abandon hope.>>108947161He could remove the CPU and NOR flash, and could have removed the Bluray PCB. It's a waste of time and energy though. That thing is beyond fucked.
>>108945460Really surprised that survived if your story is true. It should be shattered into tiny pieces from that kind of fall with that much weight around it.
>>108947161>The PSU power connector is completely goneOnly its ground terminal is gone. You can still wire a +12V power source to the positive lead and there are many places where you can take the ground from. It's hack but it'll do...>>108945786I have a fire extinguisher ready, just in case...>>108947450I don't want to do multi-layer trace repair, I want to cut off the damaged potion of the board safely, removing any shorts along the cut line.I'm going to try it with a grinding pen (18000 rpm), a 0.8mm diamond cutting disc and distilled water as a lubricant/fiberglass dust trapI don't want to kill my alveoli so I'll wear a respirator just in case
>>108948146I guarantee that there are broken ceramic caps all over the board. Good luck.
>>108948170Cracked MLCCs are only a huge concern if they're going to cause dead shorts on power lanes. If some of the signal/filtering caps are bad I hope Syscon can tell me which init had failed...
>>108948230If enough filter caps are broken then you're going to have noise problems on top of power problems if you can even get it to boot.
>>108947521are you mentally ok?>>108944871just don't breathe in the fumes if it starts smoking, like some people do
>>108948611Yeah, I know. I'll deal with them if all goes right and the board shows some signs of life after trimming.>>108948622If the NC559 fumes can't kill me, this thing can't either.Joking. Of course I'm not going to inhale the smoke.
>>108944871my mom threw it because i am going to repeat another year of uni, can you return it please?
>>108948664Name the place where it happened if you want it back.
>>108944871>>108945114>>108945451>>108945460a guess: some BPDemon didn't like that her bf didn't give her enough attention, so she thrashed his stuff
trashing a soft moddable slim would make her a BPD satan, not a demon
>>108944871Do people really eat McDonald's?
>>108948664Liar. I threw it out because it did the old YLOD when I tried to play Bad Company 2 for nostalgia berries.
>>108947521>weirdomore like the average mason who owns private islands
>>108944871>someone threw a PS3 Slim CECH-2000 out of 8th floor (?) windowHow do you even know the floor or distance they threw it from?This story is a load of bs
>>108948978I'm guessing. I went back there to search for a power on button PCB, I'm guessing it actually rolled from the impact to where I found it, now that I think about it, it could be any floor>>108949074I don't know who threw it out, I only know which building it was thrown out of
>>108944871>I almost got ghetto'd by a ps3 pls help fixkek the best thread on /g/ in months.
>>108947521>this is what came to your head umprompted
>>108949161"I almost got isekaed by a flying ps3"Something like this can't happen in any other country. The serial number should make the country in question rather obvious [spoiler]cech-2008b is a Russian region 320gb model[/spoiler]
>no spoilerbruh
>>108949267The Cyrillic on the energy drinks and just the general aura are also dead giveaways kek
>>108944871average murican
>>108949285>Cyrillic>even though I took the photo and know which brand it is I can barely make the words out you're an internet sleuth. I'm scared of you
>>108949313I only noticed that because again that image has that eastern European/Russian aura. I've spent a few years in Poland and Russia and it's immediately recognizable kek
I've ordered some tools:- a grinding pen- 0.8mm thick 50mm dia. diamond cutting discs- distilled water- sandpaper set- some n99 respirators- vial with a needle to dispense the water- cheap ass USB microscope to inspect the layers after the cut- PC power supply going to get a composite/rgb portable screen later if the board boots and the syscon is happy. getting composite to work after making the cut is going to be much easier than rewiring the HDMI plug
after I'm done with the board I'm probably going to buy a ball shaped grinding tip and start selling kamikaze mods for switch oled undercutting the local repair businesses in the process
I'm genuinely surprised no one came down running to retrieve it
>>108948812Yes
Went back there and found no power button. Guess I'll have to hack in a new oneSigh
>>108944871That PCB is fucked. Even if it has the components needed for powering on, it is probably riddled with trace microcracks that will make every aspect of its functionality you can imagine intermittent and haunt you with logical gremlins until the end of time. Any IC is sus too due to die cracks but who knows, maybe standard plastic packages can take that level of shock without anything breaking. Oh yeah also did u know ceramic caps are CERAMIC. And can crack. Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter.
>>108948146Are you going to attempt to use it afterwards? Where are the HDMI ports and stuff? HDD is over on that section? Anyway keep us posted.
>>108953744HDMI, Multi Out, TOSLink, RJ45 and the beeper were all on the part of the board that was badly damaged. RJ45 is done-fucked while the rest of the ports survivedI plan on scraping their respective traces after the cut and using bodge wires to relocate them, still thinking about how I'm going to mount them though
>>108944871>so is the blu-ray driveProbably the biggest loss from this
>>108949357Someone throwing a ps3 out the window would be something you would see in Poland or Russia honestly>filmik o dwóch takich którzy wyrzucają wersalke
>>108953744Btw hard disk is also fucked and since both the drive and the WiFi/BT module is out this may cuck me out of making sure the console is ready to accept the new one. Time will tell...>>108955009Yeah, it's a shame. I can buy one for relatively cheap and remarry it later, though.But why would I need a disk drive in the land of piracy?
>>108944871>read only the subjectNo you can't fix it>read the rest of the postNo you can't fix itBut since you asked if I were you and I was hell bent on making this shit work I would first try to make it boot. If it can't get power it probably isn't worth attempting a repair, unless you would want to poke the entire motherboard with a voltmeter/multimeter to figure out where exactly the distribution of power breaks down, which is a hassle.
>>108955806>making it bootThis is exactly what I'm trying to do.I'll use a PC power supply because the original one is just GONE
>>108948689That's probably what happened
