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I've got my first ever PS2 that's seen way more than it should have, and unfortunately it had been moisture damaged and corrosion rendered it basically dead. I got a 7700 series slim to replace it and kept going, until seeing a few portables videos and wanting to do something with it.
I couldn't remember what all had been damaged, but I knew a trim could potentially take out some of those components and I cleaned it up while waiting on the hour or whatever for posting, and fair warning my phone camera is more broken than this ps2 board and these images are fuzzy
But the legs have completely lifted off the pads on two very important looking chips. they at least seem to still be mostly straight, and if I'm careful enough I should be able to keep them all straight. I do not know what I am doing so I might have a paperweight to begin with but eh.
I will be using mild citric acid with a q-tip to try and get the corrosion cleaned, I've been told just lifting them completely and heating them up until they pop back onto the pads will be my best option with one of those heat gun applicator things, but I'm not sure yet what I'll do.
If I can make sense of the trim for the 7500 series board and figure out where those are at on here, I'm going to try re-soldering those two chips, at least removing the ports and trimming the controller leg off, I might just tap into the legs directly for some things if necessary
overall if this mobo is dead I'll either look for another 9000 board or try and get the 7700 board to accept this disc drive, and then be on my way. But if I can do it with the 9000 series, then it's easy to replace the power supply in any 9000 series with a USB-C charged lithium cell power bank, that power supply is at least 6 cells sideways so if I don't trim the leg off I have a place for batteries already
My other reason for this board is because the disc drive. it's tiny. so damn tiny and it just mounts on 4 posts with the little rubber ring feet. It's so easy to mount, and each part has a ribbon cable that can be extended, or spliced into a single connector cable, so I really want to keep it. I have a backseat RCA DVD player/tablet thing I plan to use as the inspiration for a PS2 portable with a disc drive/clamshell back and actually decent battery life.
I couldn't remember what all had been damaged, but I knew a trim could potentially take out some of those components and I cleaned it up while waiting on the hour or whatever for posting, and fair warning my phone camera is more broken than this ps2 board and these images are fuzzy
But the legs have completely lifted off the pads on two very important looking chips. they at least seem to still be mostly straight, and if I'm careful enough I should be able to keep them all straight. I do not know what I am doing so I might have a paperweight to begin with but eh.
I will be using mild citric acid with a q-tip to try and get the corrosion cleaned, I've been told just lifting them completely and heating them up until they pop back onto the pads will be my best option with one of those heat gun applicator things, but I'm not sure yet what I'll do.
If I can make sense of the trim for the 7500 series board and figure out where those are at on here, I'm going to try re-soldering those two chips, at least removing the ports and trimming the controller leg off, I might just tap into the legs directly for some things if necessary
overall if this mobo is dead I'll either look for another 9000 board or try and get the 7700 board to accept this disc drive, and then be on my way. But if I can do it with the 9000 series, then it's easy to replace the power supply in any 9000 series with a USB-C charged lithium cell power bank, that power supply is at least 6 cells sideways so if I don't trim the leg off I have a place for batteries already
My other reason for this board is because the disc drive. it's tiny. so damn tiny and it just mounts on 4 posts with the little rubber ring feet. It's so easy to mount, and each part has a ribbon cable that can be extended, or spliced into a single connector cable, so I really want to keep it. I have a backseat RCA DVD player/tablet thing I plan to use as the inspiration for a PS2 portable with a disc drive/clamshell back and actually decent battery life.
