In this video, I attempt to repair a PS5 with a somewhat common problem. It will beep 3 times when it is plugged in and will not power on. I will take you through how I fix this.
While I can see as flux can cause inaccuracies in oscillators I do find it hard to believe a tiny bit of flux has caused a total oscillator failure, but here it is, experience prevails - you have convinced me, and there is no other logical explanation - so great video, and nice work as usual!
Crystal oscillators are very high impedance circuits. Any kind of liquid across the circuit can load it to the point it can't sustain oscillations. The other circuits under the South Bridge wouldn't be bothered, it's just the crystal oscillators.
Been watching and learning from you for a few weeks now and MAN you are awesome at what you do. You've inspired me to upgrade some equipment and start repairing more often.
I ran into one of these three beep PS5s recently. I used UART to pull the error codes, and for whatever reason the console stopped the three beeps after clearing the error log. It worked completely fine after this. Might be worth trying in the future.
Thank you for showing us the way to follow to be able to face these types of failures. Thank you very much also for sharing. Excellent work. A sincere congratulations. Please continue your work by sharing knowledge and experience with us (your loyal subscribers). Greetings from Mexico.
@ToltecMerc true but wasn't it on the other side of the board? On the PS4s I remember it being right next to the SB so it was easy to get flux underside the oscillator and mess it up (I did it once lol).
@ToltecMerc yea I get it. But my question was how can the pads getting fluxed up present the signal going through? The piezoelectric crystal inside is the thing that vibrates at 32KHz? This frequency send electric signal into the SB through those pads. But the flux blocking them makes it sound like the pads physically oscillate? Hey but cleaning the flux like you did works but it's gotta have some explanation.
@@ToltecMerc One more thing what is the make of your flux you are using because it seems to me you have had issues a few times with that crystal in the past. I am wondering whether that particular flux is causing this. I may be wrong.
Crystal oscillators are very high impedance. They cannot withstand a lot of capacitive loading. Any type of liquid across the terminals will stop the oscillation. Without the 32kHZ oscillator, the South Bridge will not access it's flash storage to load software.
Does this issue get worse over time or not? Just happened to me today but im kinda broke at the moment and not sure if i can get a repair anytime soon so it would be great if doesn’t get worse over time then i can repair it some time later
So i van just download a working BIN then rrplace MAC address and SN and other stuff from the original one! Then flash it , do i need Bwe tool to patched? Or just do it like you did from HEX Editor?
Hi. I have the same problem with my ps5. And where i live no one has BWE program is there another way to fix it or this is the only way ? cus he said we should buy BWE cost 150$
You could simply just move the NOR flash IC from a dead donor of the exact same model. It would work. It would inherit the MACs and serial of the dead donor board but since that board will never be used again it would not matter.
@@ToltecMerc yeah,this the traditional methods suitable if one got lots of donor in stock. However,I want to ask if you experience ps5 boards going into cool down state- a coma kinda state where the console act as if dead but comes back alive after couple mins or hours..this cool down mode happens to me once in a while when sensitive chips are replaced e.g bios, south bridge, DC DC converter or even the Dialog chip or is it only me?😂
Hallo my Good Sir... can you kindly do a tutorial on harvesting mac address using manual method or point me to required offsets to change like you did the rest.. thank you so much
Nice repair sir. Much love and greetings from Nigeria,I have fixed tons of 3BODs myself, however, I got one particular case I need your inputs on. I patch edm030,031 and 033 revision bios quite easy with BWE tool but it's always easy if it's a cxd90061gg Southbridge based board, in contrast, patching a bios on cxd90069gg based board gives trouble, having removed all dangers and warnings during patching,, everything says green OK but the console doesn't boot after uploading the fixed bios back. ,not even a boot sequence is seen...the 3 beeps stops though but the console stays in coma. This happens on cxd90069gg ,I still don't get why..its not a flux issue cos I usually use do on-board reading/writing on the bios without need to remove the chip. any ideas what could be going on?
I have had similar issues with 69GG boards. I have been able to fix by using a donor bios from a working 69GG board. I copy the MAC addresses and serial numbers over to the new file. The BwE software does not seem to handle the 69GG bios exactly correctly.
@@ToltecMercI guess am not alone😂😂😂😂...please you mind sharing your 69gg bin files, three consoles are on their way to heaven here, only a working bin can revive them now..I have file already for edm033 69gg SB..I seek EDM 030 and EDM 031 69gg..help a soul sir
@ToltecMerc on 1200 series ps5, have you ever experienced a situation whereby after swapping donor bios (even with Mac address,sku,id etc transfer),the 3 beep of death is gone,the console boots fine BUT WiFi network doesnt see internet anymore whereas LAN works normally! This happens to 1200 series ps5 and not the 1000 and 1100 series for some reason. Have you experienced this before?
@@ToltecMerc Can you please share any EDM-010 bios you may have? I had a no power board and tried flashing one from bad caps forums and now I have 3 beeps like you did on this video.
It's too bad That NOR validation tool is Malware. He used to brag about how he knows everything all his copies do. And even revoked licenses because he saw what the user was doing and didn't like it.
