Piece of Green soldermask CPU/GPU removed
 

Hey guys,

i'm trying to fix a YLOD CECHK04 and succeeded in removing the CPU/GPU, for now only the GPU, after gently removing and because of the sticky silicon crap...it removed a piece of the green stuff, not sure how it's called > soldermask/silk screen...anyway before atempting anymore...is it totally broken or does it not matter?

picture of the damage in question
http://s7.postimage.org/fxuhpidq1/IM...0205_00761.jpg

http://s8.postimage.org/56e9xrho3/IM...0205_00760.jpg

thx

oops looks totaly screwed to me

yup think so to..crappy silicon its the fault of that sh*t :p
then if i read more it acts as coat for solder...and to make tracing easy...then it should not matter :p well lemme go get some paste anyway and try..thx for reply..

should have used heat.

done that :( 180 degrees went nicely..not heated enough then :p eh to bad..sucks yes..oh well :p

thats totally wasted lol the other day i was taking a fan off and the gpu ripped off too lol wasted all the contact points but im sure it had been reflown a million times and weakend the connection

yup agreed on a total waste..oh well crap happens...still...sucks a bit ;)
realy..the silicon is sticked to it so bad it just ripped a piece of while removing..let's hope this not happen for anyone..lol...atleast now i've seen what crap they put there...got me a nice practice solderboard..still cannot test it :p but its nice to repeat the process..better one crapper then another...but yes i'm good at ripping stuff up..think many know the feeling? :laugh:

your GPU is ok is you did not break any circuit. in the pictures is broken only some ground copper from it .

hi enosrasun :) yes indeed....now in my first post..me thinks or like to think ;) that this is just a flim laagje :p so nothing broke so far?! then i replaced on both gpu/cpu the thermal paste underneath and still RLOD(yellow led in between!)

now i also read that the problem could be the power supply? one rare occasions...the thing was full of..well check the high res pic ;) and some sirop spoiled over it....heh some people :dontknow:

Look at the bottom right corner of the image CPU and you will see that you cut two lines and that PS3 will no longer work.Cleaned CPU and loads the new image.