Wow, I know everyone has to start somewhere, but when it's no power, dead, why would someone replace the HDMI port? Not you, but whoever was in it before you. Great Video and Repair! Very educational as well! Thank You. 😀
Anytime I see those gray heat pads and pieces of aluminum, I know the console has not worked on properly.. Whatever company that uses that, U break fix or that other company asurian(spelling?)are notorious for using it, always leaves messy or broken work.. They shouldn't be in business
I have seen some horrible work come from UBreakIFix. In the past, a seller I purchased from told me he had taken to them first. They couldn't fix it and so he just throws it on eBay. It was a mess.
What a mess does some shops end with. See that myself all the time. Real annoying and customers should leave a bad rating for these shops. Rapairs shops who delivers this kind of quality should go do other work. Maybe work in a garden or something
It depends on things like the size of the chip. I normally only use the preheater with larger BGA chips. The preheater lets me use less heat from the hot air station. These ICs are tough but they do have limits. The small QFNs I removed in this video I probably used 425-430C with no preheater. The PS5 motherboard soaks up heat well. For the South Bridge, I use the preheater and probably stay under 400C with the hot air if I can.
Awesome! Could you please make a troubleshooting "step-by-step guide" video one these repairs? especially what voltage rails need to be present and where to check them. This would be very very helpful.🙏
Hi there. Can you help me please? I'm trying to find out what resistance readings to ground the rows of large coils on both sides of the board should read? I'm getting seriously low readings, and all is hear is "yes that's fine it's the APU low impedance!?!?! The capacitors underneath the APU also read seriously low...I have seen one other person on Reddit with the same issue, but people again said for him not to worry?! How can you have 0.2 ohm on the non-grounded side of some caps... yet voltage injection at 0.9 volts only draws 0.8 amps and nothing heats up? I thought it'd pull high amps, but nope. Is it really supposed to be this low? Please if you can help, I'd really appreciate it.
That does sound normal. The APU itself is the short. That does not mean it's bad. There is a 6-phase supply and 2-phase supply. The output of 6-phase supply will measure about 0.1-0.2 ohms. The 2-phase will probably read less that 10 ohms. Do you measure a short across the 12V input terminals?
@@ToltecMerc Wow fantastic mate, thank you so much for helping me! I've done electronics for years, but honestly never came across a situation where a short that low is normal. The 12V input line has been measured across the input pins, and no short, so hopefully once I repair the power supply and put it back on the board, things might actually work! Thank you so much.
@@ToltecMerc .... sorry I didn't reply properly. The short is after the coils. The input side of the 12V rail is not showing as a short. Hopefully it will be OK then once I try with a working power supply.
I don’t think those things you seen was Liquid Metal since it doesn’t go hard, but I suspect solder from a soldering station. 😂 I won’t say anything bad about a technicians work but rule 1 in repairs replace what you take away with the same content, filler or material. If it’s Liquid Metal go get some Liquid Metal and use that gently. If it’s actual thermal paste then use actual thermal paste, thermal pads use thermal pads. Can we not have enough decency to replace things exactly as they were? I know I won’t pay a technician to put something that didn’t come from high grade materials or the factory direct. Yes I know right to repair and it’s improving slowly in the USA slowly and painfully surely 😂. Great content brother keep it up
I got lucky. I thought I had fixed the original problem (South Bridge) so it made sense to me that I had created the secondary problem somehow. I'm not sure what made me test each pin for continuity to ground. Maybe it was because I knew there was a ground pad underneath that ic that was very close.
My ps5 just bit the dust. Had a Power outage while ps5 was in rest mode. Will Not turn on, no beeps or light when trying to press power button. Checked my cord for continuity and it’s good so im guessing it’s going to be PSU or board. So depressing being that it’s out of warranty and no repair shops near me that I trust.
I actually tried to replace an hdmi port on the ps5 board and i succeeded....the console worked for some couple of months and then had a short blue light with a single beep and immediately turns off ..been trying to recover it but i never had your kind of equipment..so i i left the board laying around...there are two of them actually
Crazy repair. Your diagnostics process is the best I've ever seen. Great video as always. It had so many things wrong yet you kept finding out. I do have a question. Many times when you are diagnosting you take previous experience to check the most likely faults first. What's the process you would do if you had no previous experience of one system?
I swear, when I looked at 16:23 I wondered how you managed to properly solder that chip, by pushing down, with having so much solder on GND area, and not checking with multimeter afterwards. Then 40:55 happened. This is second time I was wondering about something then it turns out I was right :D Thanks for long video that included all parts! First time it was when you broke trace, while grinding glue, if you remember. 13:49 - I have not done it, but maybe manual sucker, to suck it in tube or something. 21:37 - When Novice do it 33:12 - When Doctor do it
The best Play Station repair videos you will ever see on RU-vid. The techniques used and explanation of what has caused the issue in these units is great. I've learned so much from watching these videos. The only complaint I have is that he does not make enough videos. I can watch these all day. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you are enjoying the videos! My approach is to try to bring the viewer along for the highs and lows of repairing broken items. Still learning. Oh and as far as the number of videos, I do have a day job that takes quite bit of time in the Spring. I have a lot of free time in the Summer.
Totally agree with you. These are by far the best repair videos you can see on youtube. No other has such an in-depth understanding of the system functioning. We are blessed to be able to enjoy his content for free. Forever thankful to him.
I've been lurking on your channel for about a week now, and I must say that I am very impressed with your work. Your videos are educational and relaxing. I enjoy watching you work. Thank you for what you do and please keep it up! I look forward to many more videos in the future. Oh, and take a well-earned sub.
I repair consoles as a side gig. Love your videos, always learn so much. I'm still kind of confused by the HDMI port. I've never experienced it but I've seen other repair videos where they found pins lifted straight from factory. Is it possible this was the case and they attempted to solder them back and ended up causing all this damage in the process?
This, I believe, was an after-market port. It did say LUXSHARE on the back of it. That is what my replacement ports say. If an original port has lifted pins, I would think that was likely because of the user stressing it too much.
That was a tough one. Makes success even more sweet. I reviewed the earlier work on that one IC and I don’t see the problem but it obviously was there - go figure. I would never have questioned that work. Good on ya.
Yeah I feel like I got lucky. I knew the original problem had to be the South Bridge so whatever problem it had beyond that had to be something I caused or whoever worked on it before had caused.
It is doing well. I don't seem to use it much for console repair. I've used it for audio work in the past. It has serial data decode capabilities but I have yet to try them. Nice display. I like it!
I just feel like using liquid metal was a terrible idea by Sony. Maybe there is a better way to do it, but watching you and others work on these just tells me it’s much more troublesome than old fashioned thermal paste.
It certainly causes problems but I think others have tested thermal paste on the PS5 and it just does not work well enough. I think they are pushing the hardware hard.
The only problem I see with that is that they advertised the PS5 to be placed vertically. 45:30 that solder mask is a brilliant idea. A mod definitely I would do if I had one.
I would like to be an apprentice under your work bench i love tech repairs grabs a whole lots of joy seeing fantastic repairs done over these boards ..its marvellous in our sight...thank you so much
