TronicsFix Bet Me I Couldn't Fix His PS4 Pro 500m Special Edition! Will He Win The Bet?

hello ladies and gents welcome to another video recently Steve from tronic streaks attempted to repair a PlayStation 4 Pro 500 million limited edition console and unfortunately he couldn't do it and he bet me that I couldn't fix it as well so here we are he sent it over and there's a nice little Post-It note saying bet you can't fix this well Steve challenge accepted I have to say that having seen the video already I'm a channel member over on tronic Trixie's Channel and if you don't know who he is by the way I will leave a link down below up in the top corner and in the top pin comment of the video highly recommend checking him out and I'll do a great deal of gratitude to Steve because if it wasn't for him and the help that he gave me about two years ago my channel wouldn't be anywhere near where it is today so genuinely Steve from the bottom of her heart I truly appreciate it from what I've seen of the video it's a long pulsing blue light of death and that can be a very difficult repair but the long policy blue light of death essentially is where you turn it on and it will attempt to boot up but because it can't boot up because there's an issue it will just keep pulsating and blue light you'll get no display on the screen and it just won't turn on it'll do that until it either overheats or until it loses power but if you are new to the channel and you like this type of content I would really appreciate it if you hit subscribe and turn on the Bell notifications that way you don't miss any future videos and if you do want to support me in any way there'll be a patreon link in the video description you can check me out over there or you can become a twitch Prime subscriber by linking an Amazon Prime account to your Twitch account and then subscribing to me completely free with twitch Prime but with that being said let's get into this video all right so these come with this here I have already cleaned off the Apu because I kept getting the thermal paste on my hands it was going all over the place so I've cleaned off the ipu but other than that I haven't done anything to this so let's leave that there as a constant reminder but if you haven't watched the other video as well I did do a challenge with Johnny cheeks about two years ago I won't spoil what happened in the video but I'll leave a link in the corner now so check that out if you want to check my note first and like I said I have a great deal of gratitude to tronic streaks I really do that video did absolutely phenomenally well and yeah that really did kick start my channel so genuinely again Steve I really appreciate it but anyway let's try and figure out what's going on with this so the first thing I'm going to need to do is teach Steve a lesson in how to apply the perfect amount of thermal paste because Steve doesn't know number one he doesn't apply the correct amount and number two he doesn't pronounce it correctly so you know how some people will pronounce solder as soda well obviously that's wrong um it's the same with this they call it thermal paste it's not thermal paste it's thermal pasta and that is the perfect amount I'm declaring it now oh okay so I've got a test hose in here and this test housing is the correct housing for this board and actually I forgot to be I forgot to assemble it properly so I've recently assembled these test housing specifically for this video and I know that the power supply in here is good and all the disk drive is good uh I know the fan is good so yeah everything in this is absolutely fine which is going to allow me to test it easily so let's just get this board in so I'll hook everything up so anyone would think I was actually prepared for this video now to tell you the truth I've had this this board for about a week but I was waiting for Steve's video to be released or at least released to his channel members uh for those of you that don't know YouTube has got a channel membership feature and Steve Steve gives whoops Steve gives Early Access to videos for anyone on his channel uh what else do I need uh I'm gonna ignore them Thermal pads they fell off the board let's just drop a hard drive on so everything else apart from the board has come out of my part pile and I do know that all of these are good we don't really need the antennas but I'm going to plug them in anyway because they always Trail otherwise and this unfortunately isn't the official heatsink clamper this particular model it is a PS4 clamp but it's not the official one I don't have one for these boards so as I can test it so what I'm gonna have to do is just partially screw these in because if I screw them in all the way then unfortunately the this metal here is going to touch the board and obviously I don't want that because that will sort it out so I'll just screw it in partially as long as he's making a contact it's enough for testing and this is never going to stay in this house in any way I might as well remove these thermal pads because they're all going to fall off anyway they always do so I'll just remove them they're not absolutely needed Ram doesn't run incredibly hot or at least not for a long time I was popping a power supply like I said this is a non-good power supply this is my test power supply all right moment of truth what is happening with this console if we get a fan spin yes we do Okay so we've got a fan spin the console is turned on and it's going through what I call the initial system Diagnostics so when the console First turns on this blue light is essentially the console doing some self-tests like a post that you will get on a PC so it's doing a few tests like it's a test of ram it'll test the Apu and all of that sort of stuff and then if everything's okay to proceed to a white light and allow it to boot up but when I saw Steve's video I saw that it wouldn't get past this long pulsing blue light here and we call that a long pulsing blue light of death so that's still pulsing blue it should have gone into safe mode by now but let's just pop in a HDMI cable a HDMI splitter here and as you'll see on my desk that goes off to two ports here one to my TV one to my capture card and the capture card part that goes into the hdcp splitter to remove hdcp so as the PS4 can be used with a capture card let's just have a look and okay we've got absolutely no HDMI detect at all so we should be getting a blue light here if I go to my capture card it will come up no signal yeah so he's definitely not stuck in safe mode and we are still long pulsing blue all right so while it's turned on one thing I can do is I can use the thermal camera and see if anything's getting very hot if anything's going incredibly hot then that could indicator short somewhere and the long pulsing blue light of death can be caused by absolutely anything so any component on the ball being short can cause it unfortunately so let's just have a look at what the temperatures on the board are saying okay we've got the ram here the ram appears to be turning on what's the temperature of my Ram we're on around about 50 50 degrees Celsius on the ram doesn't appear to be one ram chip getting hotter than any of the others uh uh okay we got a bit of a heat spot here it looks like we've got some high current draw around here sorry here rather so right here this area here is there's a bunch of mosfets on the other side of the board so this is an nvg board but it's essentially the same so on the other side of the board we've got a bunch of mosfets uh a bunch of tantalum capacitors some inductors this is all for voltage regulation I think that's voltage regulation for the Apu uh I could be wrong but we haven't got schematic so I don't know exactly but we've got a little bit of heat coming from there I mean they're hitting 50 degrees Celsius I wouldn't expect that area to hit 50 degrees Celsius like that uh let's just hunt around uh uh yeah the safe Bridges a little bit warm as well actually I wouldn't expect that to hit 50 degrees Celsius but it is hmm 51 degrees Celsius 52 degrees Yeah the Rams currently at 57 degrees Celsius I would expect that to get hotter as we go along yeah all of the heat seems to be focused around the ipu the RAM and the safe Bridge okay all right well we're still lung pulsing blue as well so as you can see there still them pulsing so let's shut this down I'm gonna have to just remove power I'm not gonna be able to shut that down gracefully uh let's get the board out and we'll start doing some fault finding if we can actually no before I do that I'm gonna plug it back in turn it on and I'm going to test this area here for voltage and just see if we got anything around that area I think that's probably the best first step and under the microscope you can see here we've got this little circuit here so this is where the mosfets are going to be but just on the other side of the board let's see if I can pick up some voltage around there so we've got five volts on here five volts at the other end of the resistor I've got 0.36 volts there I'm not sure how it's meant to read same then 0.35 1.08 volt there 5 volts there again 0.36 there exactly the same on that phase and the Final Phase foreign yeah everything's checking out there uh well I'll start checking out I don't have any basic comparison but it seems to be normal let's just have a look up here and we'll see what's going on up here we've got 1.05 volts there I would say that's normal 0.95 there 3.23 there 2.06 5 . yeah I'm gonna say that this is all normal so far 0.65 I'm not sure about that it's the same on the other one though 1.8 Volt 2 volts uh wait what was this one two volts okay and what was that again that was 0.95 I would say that's going to be for the Apu 0.95 volts so I'd say that's probably normal two volts on both of those 4.69 a 3.3 that's going to be ground okay that seems normal do we get any five volts on the USB so ignore this here this is going to be flux from the factory eh I'm not worried about that do we have five volts on the USBs I don't actually know where five volt comes in on these I'm sure I'll find it I could have just plugged in the usbn meter and 0.6 volts then again that looks like a data line to me okay I don't appear to be getting any five volt at all on the USB so we still switched on the board is still on let's just plug in a USB and meter and see if we get any voltage on the ports okay that's interesting no five volt on the ports yeah no five volt on the rear USB as well okay that is a little bit odd I'm gonna say hey we don't get any five volt at all let's just see do we get do we get any charging comment on a controller nope so we've got no USB activation at all so that could actually be a safe Bridge issue Okay so let's just have a little hunt around over here let's just see what's going on on this side of the board see if there's anything I can pick up that could be causing the issue so I'll scan with the microscope and see if there's anything obvious all right so let's just have a look then so I'm around f5001 which I believe is a 5 volt line and that fuse is good so I'm just going to check for shorts in this area and just see if we've got any kind of obvious issue I believe this is all for five volt I could be wrong uh we actually have the back of the safe Bridge here let's just see if we go any shorts around here I will say though just because there's no shorts around here it doesn't mean that the area that the chip itself is good so even if we don't find any shorts doesn't necessarily mean that it's not the safe Bridge it's just that we can get an indicator sometimes have an issue when we get a short in the area I'm just going to scan random components because well we could have a short anywhere there's obviously going to be something somewhere but it's just finding it okay I'm not seeing anything around there no nothing uh this area here is low impedance so I can't really test this area or at least I can't test it for short because he's going to read a short anyway that's a random solder ball off my desk don't worry about that how are my destroy fuse is looking because that wasn't accepting uh a disc okay interesting f6202 is open that one's working but f6202 is open is that short to ground Point 15 on that side Point 51 on that side okay I have actually come across this before if I remember correctly it was something to do with this chip here I think so f6202 is basically the disk drive fuse and if you look on a donor board f6202 the silk screenings in a different place but it points down to here in the same place but f6202 down here oh okay apparently it's uh apparently this one's blown as well but it's meant to be 0.42 interesting so on the left hand side of the fuse it's supposed to be 0.42 and 0.52 on the other side that's actually got a blown f6202 but it's kind of beside the point uh let's get into the board let's try and find one that's actually got a good working fuse on it uh nvi001 that means a few should be on this side yet and I've stole the down the fuse off that oh well how about that one yeah that's got the fuse on it uh okay so if you look here it's the same circuit but you can see there we've got a reading on that fuse uh 0.54 yeah so we've definitely got an issue in that area and if memory serves me correctly last time I had that issue was when I purchased four PlayStation 4s as a Job Lot I I did a couple of videos on it I think I traced it back to here we should get a beep on The View so if we check F7 double F's sorry f6201 we'll get a beep f6202 we don't there is definitely an issue there somewhere and I believe last time I had this issue I'm pretty sure I traced it back to here somewhere I'm almost sure of it okay so there's f6202 here so I'm doing this without the microscope because yeah there it is I was doing that without the microscope purely because it's too awkward to keep scanning them and moving the microscope around and stuff but I'll go under the scope now they'll know where it is so we've got a little transistor just here I marked JL and if we look that goes into this chip just here so this here is a real Tech chip but look at the logo rt55482 so it goes into there goes into that chip so if we look at where F700 sorry I keep saying f7002 I'm thinking of the PS5 if we look at where f6202 is here so I've got one Probe on there and then if you look here we'll get a beep just there so that means that we get a continuous path from f6202 to just here so I think we've got an issue with this circuit here somewhere now the most obvious thing would be this transistor here this six pin transistor just here so I think I'm going to remove that and just see if it changes the impedance before I go any further or see if it changes the dialed reading rather they've got my hot air set at 440 degrees Celsius at 50 airflow with a nozzle on be careful because we've got a speaker just here a little mono speaker it's like a PC speaker and nope unfortunately that is going to melt I can always change the speaker yeah I think I think that oh it seems actually breaking that's a bit odd okay but that's removed anyway so now let's just check this again so in dial mode let's turn the Beeper off red Probe on ground no still the same diode reading there 0.11 so it's something else okay so I think the best thing I can do here is just remove well pretty much everything off this circuit until I find the culprit the problem is finding the culprit is easier said than done I'll check again I won't bother moving the microscope unless something changes and in this case no can't remove that still no change wow so I think let's go back into continuity mode with the vapor on and I think I'm gonna check and see if I can trace this some more because I've removed these components from here and I'm not picking it up I'm wondering if it goes back through the board here no it doesn't appear to it appears to go through an internal layer from there right okay so full disclosure eats a few days later I had to stop working on this board because a few things have happened uh the channel has had a lot of a lot of traffic for different reasons over the past few days and it's just been hectic so I've been filming different videos and things like that and yeah it's about three or four days later I don't know exactly how many days but yeah everything what I've done on this I've just watched back the content which I've already recorded and everything I've done on this is leading me to believe that there's an issue with either this chip here which is the disk drive controller the Renaissance chip or it's leading me to believe that's an issue with the Apu itself um I don't want to believe it's the Apu or I want to believe it's probably this cheaper but the problem with that is that this chip is paired with this chip this chip uh this chip this chip and this chip right so if it comes to it where those cheap where this chip has failed um yeah it's gonna be it's gonna be a big problem but I'm going to remove this chip well it wouldn't be a massive problem technically it can be fixed but it's just not economically viable so I'm going to remove this chip real quick I'll pop into the scope actually just so you can see what I'm doing so yeah this is it's marked as mediatek but it's known as the Renaissance OC they used to use Renaissance chips back in the day and then they change to mediatek on the PS4 Slims I think one of the later revisions and this is basically what controls the disk drive for the f6202 the destroy fuse as far as I'm aware goes back to here as well okay so that's removed so yeah like I said this is a mediatek chip you'll have to excuse my hands they're not very steady today or as you can see it's a custom chip by uh mediatek for Sony interactive and that is paired toward the rest of the chips on the board which is really really annoying all right let's have a look over here now uh actually let's test it at the fuse so we'll test it at f6202 so in diode mode we get 0.43 volts there and oh still 0.17 there hmm we still get Point 17 there so we can't be that cheap hmm I wonder if hmm it is possible that that's giving me a different reading because the disk drive fuses blown that is possible I'll tell you what actually let's go back to f6202 here and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to basically Bridge the fuse I'll just make sure that he's blown and that I wasn't losing my mind a few days ago yeah that is absolutely blown I've got that on continuity mode and that is definitely blown I'm wondering if that's given me a different reading just because the fuse isn't well it's technically missing because of it being blown and just remove that fuse so let's just try and Bridge this fuse with solder then there we go so the key to doing a bridge that lung is purely to just not use any flux this flux inside the solder itself so yes that looks horrible but it is temporary if I ever got this board working I would not leave it like this I would never leave a few bridged it's dangerous and it can cause not only further damage to the board but he can also cause fires and that in fact that hasn't even that hasn't even made a contact yeah I might have to put a fuse on okay that's got it yeah never mind so yeah it's difficult to bridge a fuse when it's that far across without running jumper wire but yeah that's got a contact there so let's put that back in dialogue mode and I'll give you a reading of what we're getting now so if I go back to the overhead then you'll be able to see the multimeter so dial mold red Probe on ground and huh no no unfortunately not exactly the same we need to find where that goes I think it might be time to inject voltage into that just to see if I can pick it up with heat so that's actually a 12 volt line but I would never recommend injecting 12 volts into it because if it is short to another line then it's going to cause further damage but I've got my bench power supply set to 1.8 volts let's use the thermal cam then let's see what we can get where is this short going to show up on one of those mosfets yeah on one of those mosfets he was getting hot in that area let's just double check that with isopropyl alcohol yeah that's definitely getting hot okay so is that mosfet bad so it was getting very hot in this area I did mention that at the start okay so there's that mosfet we moved and it's still taking a lot of heat and a lot of Covent in that area looks like one of these mosfets is going hot now all right so has he taking out one of these mosfets as well let's find out okay that mosfet there gets hot let's remove that there you go so that's removed okay let's inject again and it would appear that we've still got shorts on these mosfets hmm right I'm just going to remove all of these mosfets it's looking like every time we clear one it's it's going to be clear in another short what showing up another one the problem is if one has a higher resistance even if it's minutely higher resistance then another it's not going to show up that one until you clear the other one so I'm just going to make my life easier and remove all the effects if it still doesn't clear the short then we've probably got some sort of an internal shot I wouldn't recommend doing this it's just I want to save a little bit of time the problem is all of these phases are connected together that's the issue that's the issue that we've got so is it still short it appears as though it is it's just not clearing the short it's all over the place as well I don't know if you saw that then it was just like not the resistance is just everywhere I think that's an internal short to be honest I think it's internal on the board I don't think this board can be fixed right I think this one's beat me and I think Steve has beaten me as well Steve you suck no honestarius now that was a lot of fun I enjoy working on uh things that challenge me unfortunately on this occasion I just don't think this board is fixable I don't know how far that uh that issue with the disk drive is going to have gone but I think that is where the issue stemmed from in the first place uh long pausing blue light of death it's a rabbit hole they are fun to work on sometimes but they are the rabbit hole I was going to go to the end of the Earth with this one I was literally going to go as far as replacing the ipu I've got a complete set here with a working Apu I was going to replace that Apu but I just don't think it's worth it if you haven't already please check out Steve's channel uh trying to fix I'll leave a link in the video description and top pin comment I really do recommend it he's a great guy Steve I really do genuinely appreciate you sending this over to me to uh to take a look at and try and fix unfortunately you win some you lose some and this time we lost so that's gonna be for this video let me know what you think comments down below don't forget to 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Id: K1-re0bchew

Length: 29min 50sec (1790 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 09 2023