I saw it twice. I never imagined that the fault was that. A sobering video (of course it activates a thumbs up for what you always mention before saying goodbye by waving your hand twice). Thanks for sharing. All the best.
I wanted to tell you that I think you would be really good at replacing damaged LGA 1200 / LGA 1700 sockets. you can obtain cheap replacement sockets (preballed) from many sources. it is a simple BGA soldering job. Many people sell their damaged motherboards for cheap because they bent too many pins or broken them and don't know how to replace these. You could pick up broken socket motherboards for cheap then replace the LGA Socket and re sell for going rate. Could be a potential prospect as I am sure your expertise is well within this area.
Short on that 1v8 volt line causes a 1 sec BLOD on an otherwise working board, so you should see the blue light come on and then back off. You don't, so I suspect something else is still wrong. No point in investigating though. Great video as always, still helpful and educational though!!! Thx!!
I'm not sure. I think the shorted APU was the original problem and all of the other problems were caused by the repair shop. That's just a guess though.
Great video. I seem to be having a very similar issue with my ps5. It beeps but does not light up and turn on, however weirdly enough if i leave it alone for a few days then and attempt to plug it in and turn it on, it actually turns on without me pressing the button but just because i connected the power supply cable. After that if i turn it off thats it, it jusr beeps and wont turn on anymore. Please can you help me with some advice. I also im certain the issues arised after the software update which enabled the dualsense to update wirelessly. Since that update my controllers stopped working.
How often do you run into issues with the SSD controller? I have watched a few of your videos and it seems to be prevalent. I have run into about 6 different PS5s that present these same symptoms and didnt want to try replacing the controller without some hard tests that would show that it is faulty.
I'm hearing the SSD controller is becoming a major issue across many tech channels, I think Booter and Cod3r were talking about it the other day on a livestream on livechat.
Certainly not "uncommon" but at this point there are many millions of PS5's in the wild. Faulty SSD controllers being a large percentage of the consoles with faults doesn't mean it's necessarily a large problem for the PS5 system design overall.
Excellent video as always! Maybe check the southbridge since it's been messed with or even try UART, might point you in the right direction? I'm a big believer of non destructive tests first.
Thank you for the video. What stencils do you use, can you provide URLs for them, please? And what size of solder balls as well, please? I mean for the SSD controller and the southbridge?
I just had my PS5 put the repair shop and then tell me that my mother was bad but it didn't power it's beeping and the lights coming on but it turns right I feel like it's not the motherboard for the power supply cuz they tried a new power supply still beeps and light turns on the power off
Unusual fail for you (more about your success rate/skill and this a dead APU which can't be helped). Strange it would attempt to boot and then not at all with low boot voltage.
Hey m8, bwe has some tools that diagnose hardware issues. The ps4 tools arnt worth the cost, but you will find some value going forward with the ps5 tools. Perhaps it might give you a more definitive answer regarding the apu. Have a chat with steaveBe, tell him his "grandson" sent ya 😂
I have the BwE tools for PS4 and PS5 including the PS5 UART reader. It has not been extremely useful as of yet. I'm very familiar with Steve Be. We speak every other day.
Personally if I was selling a broken PS5 I would describe that as it doesn’t power up. When you’re not savvy to the terms used in this community that looks exactly like what it is. You push the power button and it doesn’t turn on, no lights. But it being a repair shop…
Yeah. You either have a situation where they don't know how to properly describe the situation or they use creative wording to give the dead console a better chance at selling. Even if they didn't know the APU was shot, no power is a bit misleading on purpose for someone hoping they can just swap in a power supply and have a working PS5.
Nice video as usual. A question: have you checked the point that was shorted right next to the SSD controller, after the console beep on beep off incident? Tks in advance.
