There’s a good chance the original owner applied way too much heat to the APU and all the surrounding caps. Replacing all those caps will be a pain. Swapping everything out with a donor board might be the best bet. Nice video, cheers mate!

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

So just to make sure i understand, it’s worth swapping all the caps with a donor board? I’ll give that a go. Thanks

@colinkempsell

Ай бұрын

Like a lot of other commenters said, the APU might be fried. Replacing the caps is worth a shot, but it might irreparably damaged if that doesn’t work. Best of luck!

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

Yeah, i might give it a go. Good practise.

9:04 What I usually do is using 130C solder paste (not wire), it stick easily with some heat (you can use an iron, no hot air needed) and won't destroy anything else. the switch apu at full tilt won't reach melting point on it so you don't have to worry. You could try 180C paste if you want, but yea in this case, paste is your friend. Regarding blue screen, you could try soldering the rp2040 and finish the mod. It might enable you to boot (since no gpu involved) to hekate and go from there.

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

Good shout I could see if i could get the mod still to work. Cheers

@jackipiegg

Ай бұрын

@@QTronics I had the APU caps shorted once, it enabled me to boot to hekate but not boot the console, no nintendo logo. black screen of death. Once I cleared the short, it was working again. When the APU caps were shorted, the 3.3v was not present as well, you could check 3.3v LDO.

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

Yeah i’ll have a look then thanks for the help 👍

Heat near the APU is always a risk, unlucky

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

Yeah it’s not looking good, at least i have another practise board

350 when using braid isn’t too high imo, I would start at 340-350 and work my way up until I start getting sufficient heat to suck up the solder into the braid. I’ve found on some Xbox’s I’m using 360-370 so it can get really hot sometimes when your on a big plane for a 4 layer board

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

Yeah im starting to the think the ts101 is a good starting iron. But im going to need something beefier eventually:) Thanks for the help dude ❤️

The APU could be damaged from the heat transferred in the original attempt. This is what I would try in this sequence. Check if any of the other caps surrounding the APU are showing. This would indicate APU is damaged. Use lots of flux for all of this, otherwise you may bridge. - reflow APU - pull off APU. Clean and re-tin the board and APU. Reinstall APU. - replace APU from a donor board.

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

What do you mean by “check is any of the other caps surrounding the apu are show”? Do you mean their values? I thought the Apu was linked to the nand? So you couldn’t replace them?

looks like they would never even be able to get the cpu cover back on either with those massive solder blobs holding the ribbon in place on the frame

@justinbouchard

Ай бұрын

thank you for balancing the audio for your music cut scenes so the music matched the level of your mic/rest of the video so frustrating when people put in music overlay and the audio is like 12 db higher than the rest of the video.

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I was going to say they were a novice, but so am I. Yeah you need just enough solder to hold it in place.

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

I will tell my editor you appreciate it :) He's good at doing stuff like that.

@justinbouchard

Ай бұрын

@@QTronics i don't think i would ever see a need for either of those points to be soldered, maybe a tiny dot on one of them, but other than that I think it's a waste of time, would have also made your job easier to remove it if that solder wasn't there to remove too after the failed attempt love from canada :)

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

@@justinbouchard I think the only reason is to stop the tape moving prior to soldering the caps. I've seen someone knock a cap off by moving the tape while it was only connected to one of the caps.

Cpu problem, bq usually gets hot as it is. The switch can work without the Cpu caps no problem

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

The bq had blown, I was getting a black screen only till i changed it. I think the previous guy must have shorted something. But yeah i think the cpu is toast too.

That fool worked on the machine without removing the theme paste first no wonder they had to call you for help

@QTronics

2 күн бұрын

Yeah, he was a little inexperienced

Do you offer send in services for V2 modchip install

@QTronics

2 күн бұрын

I dont sorry, try here : facebook.com/share/skzmu8T4b75vk2S6/?mibextid=K35XfP

Apu Reball pal

@QTronics

Ай бұрын

Im still not sure that would fix it, i’m probably gonna go for a reflow regardless. But applying pressure doesn’t work, and i know for certain it wasn’t dropped :/ Still think a reball might help? I have all the tools for it