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log 009: APU BB FAIL – problems with S-DSP
On this repair, I got an APU fail error on the test cart with an additional BB code. This error indicates an issue communicating with…
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log 008: The red tint
This is an issue I’ve seen only twice so far. The first time I encountered it, I was stumped. I worked on the board a…
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What bad video capacitors look like
Capacitors get blamed for lots of issues (and bad caps can cause trouble). When they are going bad things kinda work, output or audio gets…
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log 007: DMA Fail – bad CPU.
This particular unit would boot the test cart and fail only the DMA test. The capacitors were also bad, so the output was distorted too.…
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log 006: Vertical lines PPU2
This was an SHVC board with vertical lines. Originally I suspected PPU1, and the CPU was my second guess. Neither were correct. Turned out to…
