Need some info on scph50003 - its V9 right ?

[oZER0o]

i also need to know if theres anything i should know about this particular model. my friend has had it for a short while and he wants me to mod it, he ordered himself a matrix infinity homebrew last night, i saw the diagram and it looked a little harder than the infinity on a V7...

is there anything i should know about like the laser of the V9 and stuff ? it has the 400c laser in it right? he wont be putting a HD in it so he needs a good laser.

[lufcfan]

You'll need to Romeo mod it for starters to stop the LA6508 burning out and killing it and the laser. This isn't for non-pro's.

There are also VIA points or a selection of very fine legs to solder to on the main board BGA. Again, not unless you're a pro.

V7s are uber easy - V9 aren't as easy - particularly if you've only done 1 PS2 before. I'd do a few more V7s and V5s etc and then progress to the 9s and 10s...

[oZER0o]

ughggghhhhhhhhhh

http://www.darkplanets.com/la6508/

read up about the romeo mod, doesnt look to hard, i'll just do that first. i have a multimeter so can check the resistance. says it should be between 4 to 5 ohms.

so its true that only a small batch of the consoles got the problem? i guess its better not to take the risk, as ive got nothing to lose by doing the mod, in fact, everything to gain, unless i do it wrong (which i wont )

so is this all i need to know? the romeo mod?

[lufcfan]

They've all got the LA6508 problem - and if you aren't careful, you'll scortch the board, ruin the pad and break the leg off of the chip. Find a scrap board you can use to practice lifting the chip legs from. You also have to solder the 5v point to a VIA so if you aren't sufficient at soldering those (there are 3 others to do on a v9 also) then I wouldn't even attempt trying.

[oZER0o]

Originally Posted by lufcfan

They've all got the LA6508 problem - and if you aren't careful, you'll scortch the board, ruin the pad and break the leg off of the chip. Find a scrap board you can use to practice lifting the chip legs from. You also have to solder the 5v point to a VIA so if you aren't sufficient at soldering those (there are 3 others to do on a v9 also) then I wouldn't even attempt trying.

scortch the board as in... ?

i know it will require someskill, but for the VIA's all i need is patience and precision. i have a flux pen etc, so it shouldnt be so hard this time around. i do have a scrap board i can practise on though.

can you direct me to a concise instruction on how to do a romeo mod? is it just the one wire ? in the "post your pics here" thread, most of the romeo fixes seemed to have 2?

[lufcfan]

Scortch the board as in burn it when lifting the pin.

The reason most romeos appear to have 2 wires, is because the wire should be bent down below the laser optical cable input to the motherboard to avoid the noise from the cable interfering with the power to the LA6508

The best thing is to practice lifting every 3rd pin of the BA chip on that scrap board of yours and then bending it up, soldering a wire to the lifted pin and finding a VIA to solder the wire to.

Hope this helps...