Oh the voltage inside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we've no place to go Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow. Merry Xmas Vince and all.
"Let's see if it turns on" - 55 minutes remaining on the video . "Nope" Good job Vince, it's really nice to learn from the mistakes others, I love the process
Perseverance paid off in the end, shame it was a long job for you mate. The little things are always the hardest to find but at least we all learnt something along the way. I hope you and the family have a great Christmas, all the best :)
I personally enjoy the full videos. I love the way you run through your investigations and diagnosis. I imagine you drive many people crazy with your methods but I always cheer you on. I wish you and your family a very merry Christmas.
At the last filter change at 56.49 I noticed a short circuit on the filter. I wanted to scream, Vince, Vince you got a short circuit there! Then I realized it wasn't a live broadcast and even if you didn't hear me. You're still making great videos. At this point I realize that I wouldn't destroy PS3 if I thought about and dedicated HDMI filters. You teach me to understand everything you fix. It would be very helpful in my life if I could consult someone more experienced on various repairs. I, too, like some fans here, wish you a peaceful Christmas holiday in your family circle.
Hi Vince, I have a PS4 with no display also.... but I was waiting a video from you to start fixing it!!! Now I feel like an expert because a saw all the issues you had!!! wish me luck!.
Oh my, I can’t believe you have had the same problem as I have got with a PS4 slim. I have been working on it now for nearly a week on and off. I have changed the chip twice with two new parts bought off eBay, I checked the hdmi port and found two shorting pins but that didn’t fix it and I have just had to put it to one side because I have spent so much time on it now it was driving me mad. I thank you for uploading this video because you have given me a way to go and given me more hope of fixing it again, I think I had better wait until Boxing Day though as I don’t think I would be very popular taking it apart tomorrow.
The Slim and Pro have a different pinout than the original models and a few of the pins are supposed to be shorted. The only one I can remember off of the top of my head is pin 3 (it's supposed to be ground) whereas the other models are not. You can also have faulty diodes or the IC is not replaced correctly (most likely). Your diodes should read around .6V in diode mode on the slim and OL the other way around with the exception of one diode on the IC side of the board which reads .6v and 1.45v the other way around. If they don't, you could have a bad diode in the circuit or the IC just isn't on right.
Johnathan Hartzell hey i have a Pro that i Replaced 3 Times the IC, 1 time The Port, and all EMI Filters and all Diodes too the Console gives no Signal and no Signal in recovery mode ._. Thx for the Information with the Diode V. I used a Broken Slim board for the Components for replace.
Loki Wenzel You need to use a multimeter to check the diode voltages in diode mode to pin down what’s wrong. Diodes are also orientation sensitive - if any of them are installed backwards the PS4 won’t work. The IC on this also takes a bit of practice to replace correctly. That was most often my mistake when I first started. Believe it or not they’re actually more resistant to heat than you may think. I thought I burned them and destroyed them a few times when I actually just didn’t prep the chip and install it correctly. Also I’ve seen many repair attempts on ports where the pins weren’t soldered on all the way. Only easy way to spot if the diodes are on backwards, loose hdmi port pins, or suspect joints is with a good microscope. Or else you’re working blind.
Johnathan Hartzell yeah that i know about siode orientation they all Right in Place. I check later the Board again and if i Underatand it right. The First Diode behind the HDMI port is around 6v and the others at 1,45v ?
I seriously felt your frustration Vince. Great job on the the fix, you learnt something new so that is always a bonus plus you taught some of us something to :)
Great work!! Could absolutely hear the release of tension in your voice when that PS4 screen came on. Once again great video, i love these as they mirror kind of what i do when i repair a console. trial and error. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Well done Vince, a miracle just in time for Christmas! I must say your never give up attitude never ceases to amaze me, I wish I had so much patience, we can all learn something from you. Hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas, you have earned it mate :)
Wow, just wow, the amount of dedication to fixing this thing was awesome, by the end of the first day I would have been out the back of the office, submitting the thing to some serious wrath, congrats mate, you have made the first hour of putting things in envelopes today whizz by :)
I think we've all been there Vince. I was surprised not to see it being fixed with a 10kg hammer long before you eventually got it fixed! Well done dude!
Merry Christmas to you and your family from Kenosha, WI. What a great find it was to stumble across your channel many months ago. I'd almost given up believing there were any patient, intelligent human beings left. :D
One can still salvage a chip with a broken pin like that by carefully grinding back the plastic casing above the broken pin to expose a bit more metal to solder onto. The pins actually travel quite deep before reaching the bond wires.
Yes, I thought you would have stopped for Christmas, but thankfully I now have something to watch whilst fixing a PC. Am I the only one that watches other (unrelated) fixing videos whilst working myself? Kinda like having the radio on in the background but not.
I am often sat here fixing stuff mainly watches and I watch Vince here or Mike from My Retro Watches doing their fixy thing, am at the moment trying to prototype my karaoke pre-amp timegrapher DIY kit which I am building so I can listen to the beat and amplitude of watches but without the £150 price tag.
bravo é la prima volta che seguo un tuo video... sono stato tutto il tempo incollato a vedere la tua diagnosi alla fine credevo che dal nervoso la buttavi via dalla finestra... ed invece se stato persistente ed hai raggiunto l'obiettivo. Grande . Davvero davvero Bravo .
There are many fault finding techniques in electronics and understanding how the signals pass from stage to stage helps. One thing that might help you in the future is a cheap oscilloscope to actually see the signals presented at the outout pins of a device. When you have a working unit and faulty unit it's easy to compare what's there and what's not. Don't be afraid to use a scope in fault finding it might take you a while to understand what you are doing but in the long run it will pay off trust me. Happy holidays to you and the viewers.
Wow, what a soul sucker! How you managed to refrain from throwing it through a window is beyond me. Awesome job on that micro jumper. I actually noticed that missing capacitor at the start (he'll get to that), but totally forgot about it as you overcame the other hurdles. Tenacity, thy name is Vince.
If U Stop the Video at #56:54 i noticed the first one makes a Connection on the Pads. At this time i was hoping that it doesnt matter for the result :D
Super nice fix! Still, I was shouting "use fluuuuux" so often ;) Also: clean those tips, and maybe get yourself a blade tip, like a hakko shape K. Would have helped a lot on the chip
21:32 use the blade and scrape the chip encapsulation around the pin you could have solder a wire to the chip, 27:59 you could use the solder mask to keep the wire in place before soldering the chip on the board.
Fantastic, pleased you got to the bottom of this one!!! Regards resoldering that IC, not all fluxes are the same! That's the kind of IC I would use Chip quik flux with - it helps avoid bridges. I find other fluxes just dont do the same job! With regards to that missing pin, you could dremel (carefully) into the top of the IC edge there to expose that single pin. It's fiddly though and far easier to swap out for a spare as you did =D Hope you are having a good Christmas!!
Thanks Chris, I think I threw out that chip, I wish I had grinded back the corner as I would have liked to reuse that one. At least I will know that for next time. Nice little tip as usual. Enjoy the holidays :-)
Great job there it may have to long to solve but you now know what to check for if you get this problem in the future love your videos please keep up the good work and merry Xmas and happy new year
59:19 you can clearly see a bridge on them two pads of the top most filter. There's a huge blob of solder between them. You might be safer picking them filters from the edges.
Looks like a combination of bad coils ,missing capacitor, and broken lead on the HDMI IC. I also notice a resistor is missing. Congrats on getting it up and running.
Don't clean the solder with wick, just apply more flux, clean the iron tip and touch the pins. It will remove just the right amount of solder. And you need the knife tip if you want to solder a chip with hot iron. It is very good at dragging solder and fixing bridges.
@56:51 you can see, Vince, that your filter bridged when you added your lead solder. ive been yelling at my screen for 10 mins! lol sorry I couldn't help ya man, but glad you found it in the end. cheers man!
I come to say thank you about finding this EMI filter issue. I faced some similar situation when fixing a PS3. Although it's a PS3 the HDMI sub circuit remains about the same. In my case the EMI filter doesn't have continuity on HDMI pin 1, which makes the display very hard to show image, though sometimes I can make it work by force resetting PS3. After replacing the EMI filter, the image came very quickly after powering up.
Great video and patience working out the issue. If you took your time at minimum wage to fix this you could have bought a working one! BUT the feeling of fixing it yourself is like winning 100 quid so it evens out. 😁👍 Congrats and keep up the great work and videos.
Great perseverance , Vince, but you really need a scope for audio, video, RF and digital work. I think it was around 1970 when I bought my first scope. Didn't you say you had just bought one?
Another good video, the effort and time you put in has helped me fix things and saved me hours and hours, I am always amazed how those tiny components get made in the first place 👍
Quick tip: for soldering those chips, if you bridge 2 pins in one corner, you can then add flux to it, and "grab solder" it easily, by moving the tip across the pins, grabbing the solder across them, if thermal dissipation is too high, just grab solder slower.
If ever a RUclips trophy is awarded for patience and persistence you sir, certainly deserve it. You never fail to amaze me.
Wow...nice work Vince! Really good diagnosing here!
Says the man who eats chips while repairing PS4s.
Thanks Steve :-)
I laughed, I cried, it was a rollercoaster of emotions. Well done.
Oh the voltage inside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow.
Merry Xmas Vince and all.
Lmaoooo.
Merry Christmas sir
Love this, mind if I steal it?
@@zerocool278 Haha. It took me a whole 10 minutes to come up with it and you want to steal it? It's all yours but don't you go taking credit for it. 😉
MyMateVince presents:
PS4 From Hell II: Hellspawn
Yet another great (and indeed painful) repair!
"Let's see if it turns on" - 55 minutes remaining on the video . "Nope"
Good job Vince, it's really nice to learn from the mistakes others, I love the process
Perseverance paid off in the end, shame it was a long job for you mate. The little things are always the hardest to find but at least we all learnt something along the way. I hope you and the family have a great Christmas, all the best :)
I can't blame you Vince this really was a nightmare to fix!
I personally enjoy the full videos. I love the way you run through your investigations and diagnosis. I imagine you drive many people crazy with your methods but I always cheer you on. I wish you and your family a very merry Christmas.
"I'm losing my will to live on this one as you can imagine."
God, do I feel that.
At the last filter change at 56.49 I noticed a short circuit on the filter. I wanted to scream, Vince, Vince you got a short circuit there! Then I realized it wasn't a live broadcast and even if you didn't hear me. You're still making great videos. At this point I realize that I wouldn't destroy PS3 if I thought about and dedicated HDMI filters. You teach me to understand everything you fix. It would be very helpful in my life if I could consult someone more experienced on various repairs. I, too, like some fans here, wish you a peaceful Christmas holiday in your family circle.
I’m so happy I can learn all these lessons through you instead of having to go through this myself!!!!
Hi Vince, I have a PS4 with no display also.... but I was waiting a video from you to start fixing it!!! Now I feel like an expert because a saw all the issues you had!!! wish me luck!.
Way to go Vince! All the toil and trouble was worth it in the end. Good job!
Merry Christmas to you and your family from Canada!
Oh my, I can’t believe you have had the same problem as I have got with a PS4 slim. I have been working on it now for nearly a week on and off. I have changed the chip twice with two new parts bought off eBay, I checked the hdmi port and found two shorting pins but that didn’t fix it and I have just had to put it to one side because I have spent so much time on it now it was driving me mad. I thank you for uploading this video because you have given me a way to go and given me more hope of fixing it again, I think I had better wait until Boxing Day though as I don’t think I would be very popular taking it apart tomorrow.
The Slim and Pro have a different pinout than the original models and a few of the pins are supposed to be shorted. The only one I can remember off of the top of my head is pin 3 (it's supposed to be ground) whereas the other models are not.
You can also have faulty diodes or the IC is not replaced correctly (most likely). Your diodes should read around .6V in diode mode on the slim and OL the other way around with the exception of one diode on the IC side of the board which reads .6v and 1.45v the other way around. If they don't, you could have a bad diode in the circuit or the IC just isn't on right.
Johnathan Hartzell hey i have a Pro that i Replaced 3 Times the IC, 1 time The Port, and all EMI Filters and all Diodes too the Console gives no Signal and no Signal in recovery mode ._. Thx for the Information with the Diode V. I used a Broken Slim board for the Components for replace.
Loki Wenzel You need to use a multimeter to check the diode voltages in diode mode to pin down what’s wrong. Diodes are also orientation sensitive - if any of them are installed backwards the PS4 won’t work. The IC on this also takes a bit of practice to replace correctly. That was most often my mistake when I first started. Believe it or not they’re actually more resistant to heat than you may think. I thought I burned them and destroyed them a few times when I actually just didn’t prep the chip and install it correctly.
Also I’ve seen many repair attempts on ports where the pins weren’t soldered on all the way. Only easy way to spot if the diodes are on backwards, loose hdmi port pins, or suspect joints is with a good microscope. Or else you’re working blind.
Johnathan Hartzell yeah that i know about siode orientation they all Right in Place. I check later the Board again and if i Underatand it right. The First Diode behind the HDMI port is around 6v and the others at 1,45v ?
And do you have the Pinout for the Pro hdmi port ?
Merry Christmas Vince and Family, you have kept me entertained this year and also taught me a thing or 2. Hope you have a great 2020 as well!
I seriously felt your frustration Vince. Great job on the the fix, you learnt something new so that is always a bonus plus you taught some of us something to :)
Great work!! Could absolutely hear the release of tension in your voice when that PS4 screen came on. Once again great video, i love these as they mirror kind of what i do when i repair a console. trial and error. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Well done Vince, a miracle just in time for Christmas! I must say your never give up attitude never ceases to amaze me, I wish I had so much patience, we can all learn something from you. Hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas, you have earned it mate :)
Wow, just wow, the amount of dedication to fixing this thing was awesome, by the end of the first day I would have been out the back of the office, submitting the thing to some serious wrath, congrats mate, you have made the first hour of putting things in envelopes today whizz by :)
Haha, cheers Mike, hope you had a great Christmas and wishing you a happy 2020 :-)
I think we've all been there Vince. I was surprised not to see it being fixed with a 10kg hammer long before you eventually got it fixed! Well done dude!
Another one narrowly escapes the landfill. Well done Vince. The long versions are the best.
I really admire your patience. I think I'd thrown it against the wall after day 1
Merry Christmas to you and your family from Kenosha, WI. What a great find it was to stumble across your channel many months ago. I'd almost given up believing there were any patient, intelligent human beings left. :D
One can still salvage a chip with a broken pin like that by carefully grinding back the plastic casing above the broken pin to expose a bit more metal to solder onto. The pins actually travel quite deep before reaching the bond wires.
As usual, great video, and as usual, I don't mind the length. Vince movies are always welcome.
OMG. That is the most satisfying end to a video in a long time. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I thought you would have stopped for Christmas, but thankfully I now have something to watch whilst fixing a PC.
Am I the only one that watches other (unrelated) fixing videos whilst working myself? Kinda like having the radio on in the background but not.
No you are not the only one
I’m repairing a Microsoft surface at the moment😁
i do it also
I am often sat here fixing stuff mainly watches and I watch Vince here or Mike from My Retro Watches doing their fixy thing, am at the moment trying to prototype my karaoke pre-amp timegrapher DIY kit which I am building so I can listen to the beat and amplitude of watches but without the £150 price tag.
Ohhhh a double episode! Now after all this holiday stress I'm gonna sit back and watch Vince fixing stuff.. merry christmas mate :)
Wow what a roller coaster, excellent job Vince!
Vince = patience,
Me = Hammer
At least you learnt about ports and filters, hats off to you vince great vid.
bravo é la prima volta che seguo un tuo video... sono stato tutto il tempo incollato a vedere la tua diagnosi alla fine credevo che dal nervoso la buttavi via dalla finestra... ed invece se stato persistente ed hai raggiunto l'obiettivo. Grande . Davvero davvero Bravo .
Definitely one of your more challenging fixes, good job mate.
Very good Vince!!! Almost 500K Subs aswell.. You deserve it bro keep up the good work! ;)
There are many fault finding techniques in electronics and understanding how the signals pass from stage to stage helps. One thing that might help you in the future is a cheap oscilloscope to actually see the signals presented at the outout pins of a device. When you have a working unit and faulty unit it's easy to compare what's there and what's not.
Don't be afraid to use a scope in fault finding it might take you a while to understand what you are doing but in the long run it will pay off trust me. Happy holidays to you and the viewers.
What a battle! Really a good watch though. Glad you didn't give-up!
Your tenacity is impressive, I consider myself a patient person but even at that point I’d have given up.
Wow 10 out 10 for sticking with it and not giving up , i did think you were not going to sort this one, but well done for keeping your patience 🤔
Nice work, Vince. Good to see a happy ending. Merry Christmas to you, and all fellow viewers.
Awesome Vince..well done!!!..glad you finaly got it sorted..and Merry Christmas!!
Well done Vince, another cracking video, Merry Christmas to you and your family 👍
Wow, what a soul sucker! How you managed to refrain from throwing it through a window is beyond me. Awesome job on that micro jumper. I actually noticed that missing capacitor at the start (he'll get to that), but totally forgot about it as you overcame the other hurdles. Tenacity, thy name is Vince.
The invincible vince cracks it again well done chap
If U Stop the Video at #56:54 i noticed the first one makes a Connection on the Pads. At this time i was hoping that it doesnt matter for the result :D
Super nice fix! Still, I was shouting "use fluuuuux" so often ;) Also: clean those tips, and maybe get yourself a blade tip, like a hakko shape K. Would have helped a lot on the chip
Great vid vince always good to watch. Have a good Christmas vince 👍
Great video. Also have a very Merry Christmas and have a amazing new year. Cannot wait for more content in 2020.
Thank you for sharing this journey.
This made me decide to buy a broken non display ps4.
Vince is the type of guy to come down at 2am boxing day for his christmas dinner
Congratulations on getting it working nice work mate.
playstation from hell V2.0, excellent work mate, so glad u managed to sort this out from all the hours u put in to it. amazing! :)
Well done vince, So glad you got it working in the end lol. Also happy new year vince and to all :D
great result. I don't think we appreciate how much time goes into these videos once they've been edited. I certainly didn't.
Merry Christmas my mate Vince!
21:32 use the blade and scrape the chip encapsulation around the pin you could have solder a wire to the chip, 27:59 you could use the solder mask to keep the wire in place before soldering the chip on the board.
'I've never been so close to putting a hammer through this thing' I literly laughed out loud at this 🤣🤣
merry christmas and happy new years and keep up with the great videos
Fantastic, pleased you got to the bottom of this one!!! Regards resoldering that IC, not all fluxes are the same! That's the kind of IC I would use Chip quik flux with - it helps avoid bridges. I find other fluxes just dont do the same job! With regards to that missing pin, you could dremel (carefully) into the top of the IC edge there to expose that single pin. It's fiddly though and far easier to swap out for a spare as you did =D Hope you are having a good Christmas!!
Thanks Chris, I think I threw out that chip, I wish I had grinded back the corner as I would have liked to reuse that one. At least I will know that for next time. Nice little tip as usual. Enjoy the holidays :-)
Thank you for sharing and for your perseverance. Awesome work! You get a sub and a massive thumbs up from me. Stay safe and keep them videos coming!
Great job there it may have to long to solve but you now know what to check for if you get this problem in the future love your videos please keep up the good work and merry Xmas and happy new year
I really enjoyed this one Vince, Good to see you didn't have to buy a chip.. oh and APU I dropped a like..
That was a very entertaining video Vince. Thanks for sharing. Kind regards. Paul.
Glad you kept on going that will help a lot of people I’m sure keep it up 👍🏼
Merry Christmas Vince! Now I have something to entertain me tonight 🙂
I hear the sigh of relief! Great video, and way to stick through it!
Patience is a virtue...Merry Christmas
Way to persevere. What an outstanding result in the end.
59:19 you can clearly see a bridge on them two pads of the top most filter. There's a huge blob of solder between them. You might be safer picking them filters from the edges.
I noticed that right away.
good work mate. long road but you got there in the end. remember flux is your friend with SMD. also think about some SMD hot tweezers.
Looks like a combination of bad coils ,missing capacitor, and broken lead on the HDMI IC. I also notice a resistor is missing. Congrats on getting it up and running.
Vince you're missing a small ceramic chip next to the other ceramic chips mate.
nice fix vince happy christmas mate to you and your family
Don't clean the solder with wick, just apply more flux, clean the iron tip and touch the pins. It will remove just the right amount of solder.
And you need the knife tip if you want to solder a chip with hot iron. It is very good at dragging solder and fixing bridges.
Merry Christmas Vince! 🎁❤️
Yes my xbox one had the same problem. Had to do what you did, took a bit but now works thanks for this video Vince merry Christmas
@56:51 you can see, Vince, that your filter bridged when you added your lead solder. ive been yelling at my screen for 10 mins! lol sorry I couldn't help ya man, but glad you found it in the end. cheers man!
Another great video Vince! Playstation from purgatory? Haha
I come to say thank you about finding this EMI filter issue. I faced some similar situation when fixing a PS3. Although it's a PS3 the HDMI sub circuit remains about the same. In my case the EMI filter doesn't have continuity on HDMI pin 1, which makes the display very hard to show image, though sometimes I can make it work by force resetting PS3. After replacing the EMI filter, the image came very quickly after powering up.
I just love that you never give up!!
Merry Christmas Vince 😎
I really admire your perseverance. Merry Xmas to you and yours.
Well done Vince! Awesome video. I’ve learnt some thing as well 👍
Best Christmas gift from you. Your "trying to fix" is very satisfying :)
Merry Christmas Vince
Hi Vince for info 0603 smd is dimension in inches 0.06"x0.03" or 1.5mmx0.8mm. The smaller cap is probably 0402 (0.04"x 0.02"). video 58:45
Great Video And Happy Christmas⛄🎅
It doesn’t have to be pretty to work - nice job figuring it out in the end!
Great video and patience working out the issue. If you took your time at minimum wage to fix this you could have bought a working one! BUT the feeling of fixing it yourself is like winning 100 quid so it evens out. 😁👍 Congrats and keep up the great work and videos.
That was painful o watch. Not because you did a bad ob but because it must have been so frustrating for you. Glad it turned out okay in the end
For the missing leg you can drill on the chip with a dremel until you get more metal and attach a wire or the actual leg
great job!! its amazing that you never gave up!
Bravo!!!! Великолепная работа!!! Каждый раз переживаю с тобой все эмоции от бессилия до облегчения и радости!!!
Merry Xmas Vince, hope your patience and resolve continues in the new year!
Ace video lol so glad you got it fixed. It’s the little things that make the difference
56:55 You can clearly see that the filter on the top hat now a bridge between the left pads and also it looks cracked...
Great perseverance , Vince, but you really need a scope for audio, video, RF and digital work.
I think it was around 1970 when I bought my first scope.
Didn't you say you had just bought one?
Merry Christmas Vince, hope you get something that works from Santa.
Another good video, the effort and time you put in has helped me fix things and saved me hours and hours, I am always amazed how those tiny components get made in the first place 👍
Quick tip: for soldering those chips, if you bridge 2 pins in one corner, you can then add flux to it, and "grab solder" it easily, by moving the tip across the pins, grabbing the solder across them, if thermal dissipation is too high, just grab solder slower.
Just starting out on ps repairs learnt a lot from you regards no signal