Sucks to get such a rough one for your first PS5 Vince! From my experience I'd say the issue was likely originally a bad capacitor on that rail. The circuit in question is a RAM power rail and unfortunately that is a common issue. The caps on that rail do fail pretty often, but it doesn't normally pop a fet. One thing to check is if you look just to the right of that area there's a TLV IC (marked SBV on the chip itself). It's the same chip as the F7002 IC on the EDM-010 board. If you check around there it may have popped the fuse. I've found that happens quite often after those caps go bad. If you're missing your lower voltages (2.5v, 2v, 1.8v, 1.37v, 0.9v) it may be that the fuse is preventing the rest of the boot sequence. That said, that fat rail you were injecting voltage into is the 1.37v rail for RAM and if that's dead short it may be that the fet which died took out the RAM too. I've seen that a few times too 😞

Don't give up, failures are just a part of repair. You go beyond and fix things I would toss (and I have been a board level tech for 40 years). Always love watching your methodology for sorting out the problems.

One of the things about Vince i fell in love with is that he is exploring. He's not sure what to expect, he's not perfectly knowing the device and 100 ways how to fix it. It's a journey and he's taking us with him.

Its good to see videos that are not always a fix. It makes people realise that not every thing is fixable. You put a lot of effort into this one that people can still learn from watching your fault finding.👍

great effort, i was truly rooting for you when you attempted the layer repair. great vid as usual

I always root for you Vince and in my experience you can not win them all. Great work as always and thanks for the video.

That went with a bang. Impressive effort to fix it.

Whatever "repair shop" that PS5 was brought to should definitely be avoided

Amazing video Vince! Many many fixers would not even try to fix this kind of damage. Too bad it still does not work but moment it turned on gave really amazing vibes.

Great video on the ps5. Man you did great. As well, brave to use your personal ps5 to attempt to fix the broken one. Found you from tonics fix about 6 months to a year ago. Great videos!! Great work 👍🏾👍🏾

Repair shop probably swapped out the good usb ports for some faulty ones they had.

Nice video and a valiant attempt! Would love to see more ps5 videos!

Ahhhh Vince i'm gutted for ya. Great video all the same i was rooting for a result in the end

The voice overs are not a problem Vince! Great video 👍

The state of that thing! From the scratches around the usb ports you can infer that the console was really roughly treated by it’s owner. I can’t imagine treating an expensive electrical device so carelessly. Mad. A great effort anyway Vince, and I hope we can see more PS5 videos in the future :)

Great Video Vince 👍 You can't win them all. I can see you put a lot of work into that, and a real shame it didn't pay off. Perhaps when the mosfet shorted it sent a higher voltage elsewhere and blew whatever it's connected to. I've not worked on a PS5 myself, a bit too pricey to take a chance on at the moment. Still a great video and keep up the fantastic work!

All I ever see on social media are broken PS5s. It's incredible how many of them there are.

Great attempt, even risking a working board. Enjoyed the video and keep it up. you did great IMHO

You are amazing person Thank you for taking time out to show us i love all your video that you make You and your family stay safe Out there God bless you

Love a good try to fix video. Lovely to see a PS5 for the first time too featured on your channel.

Oh man, even when you are hurt, you do make fun of yourself. RESPECT!

Keep the chin up Vince, you have a heart like a lion to take on a nightmare of a job like that. Keep up the great work. Mick 👌👏🍻

No problem with the voice overs, great video as always.

good chanel i have refurbed consoles for years but it interesting to see the diagnostic side done so well

Damn I thought it would work but man you are the most creative man I know and you have alot of kinds of glew. I was super interested the whole video :)

I like to follow along with Vince's diagnostic, so I don't read the comment until the end and that is hard for me. Keep it going.

I saw this on Ebay and was going to buy it but when I saw "no cables, no controller, nothing" I thought no way, massive red flag......unlucky buddy, hope you have more success on the next one

Back in the early 70s I remember going to the Audio fair at the Russell Hotel in London and drooling over the Quad gear on show knowing full well they would always be beyond my means, Quad was always considered to be at the pinnacle of the Hi Fi world. Their Electrostatic speakers were a bold concept.

My money is on the mangeld usb ports. I think that is the root of this defect. TOP video. this is how we learn And remember: don`t buy ebay consoles without cable en controlers, dead giveaway for non honest defects

That was an incredible circuit board surgery, my hat off to you, sorry you couldn't get it to work.

When you stripped it it, the pcb had a distinctly reworked look, that mosfet must have got very very hot to discolour the PCB. Well done TheCod3r for advising.

Hi Vince, it looks like this is an APU problem. I had the same thing but with a laptop that turned on and off continuously because the video chip was no longer good due to reballing, but there is some life in it. What is striking is that the fuses are not broken, perhaps due to the quick on / off. In the end, it can also be a (small) short circuit after you turning on the PS5, so further down the board. Thanks for the video, and your videos are always a succes btw!

Your videos are always excellent, Vince. You win some and you lose some, but you always give it your all...and that's what life's all about, isn't it. Thanks for making these videos for us!

You are a brave man, Vince. I wouldn't have the balls to even touch that device with its liquid metal

Those usbs were definitely weird, don't think I could damage a usb port like that if I tried! Shame you didn't get a fix on this one, I really do admire your determination though where others would normally give up. You watch other KZfaqrs who fail on things in their videos and it's so frustrating because you can tell they gave up far too easily without trying some very basic troubleshooting steps. I can rest easy though knowing that you are very thorough! And if there's something you can't fix then it truly must be broken. Keep up the good work Vince! You'll get a fix on one of these at some point for sure!

By far the best thumbnail I ever seen.

Fair play for continuing on with a clearly banjaxed PS5, the journey was good even if the end destination was disappointing.

That was very interesting to watch! I thoroughly enjoyed this video.

That's truly the "Rattle of death". LOVE it, great video!

Good job sir. Too bad you could not find the problem. Thanks for the inside look on the inside of a PS5.

most excellent video dude. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

You gave it a right good going over but again caught out by a very poor decription of real damage to the console again great vids and the car is coming on very well for the knowledge of mechanics you have very different to bt but I think you are a true inspiration for others to have a go at smaller jobs for themselves GREAT WORK again I think you would make a great speaker to people with learning difficulties and mental health issues TOPMAN VINCE .

Ooo broken PS5. This video should take off.

Its Never a waste of time watching your videos Vince. Either ending its still good viewing chap.

There's quite a few people down here condemning the repair shop. I think that this PS5 was dropped was caused something inside it to flex and greet Vince with that crater that he was ever so lucky to stumble upon. Once the repair shop open the console and saw that they pretty much just quoted them a price that would either turn them away or have them attempt to fix it. Cuz let's face it. Without schematics there's not much anybody can do about that besides Sony themselves

For those of you who love retro repairs, and can't get enough of it, I would like to recommend the channel Retro Krazy. His content is very high quality but he only has around 400 subscribers. Vince used to do a segment where he would share videos from fellow tinkerers on KZfaq. I hope he brings that back.

To answer your question at the end about the USB ports. To Damage anything on the board you would have to dump 12 volts into a data pin. There is failsafes on any modern device that will turn the port off, permanently if needed, if there's ever a short on the USB port. It's all handled in the USB controller on the board.

man thats such a dad thumbnail rofl - love it Sucks that it didnt work out - atleast spare parts right vinny

Don’t give up Vince you can do it 😊 well done for trying anyway mate I too think the cap went and avalanched from there

Vince you can dry solder mask quickly by placing uv light+hot air it will take 3 seconds to cure

Another great video, shame it was to far gone before you even started, Vince any chance of doing a video on the equipment you use, extractor, hot air station, even flux etc as I think it would be useful and maybe something to make while you are on the mend ?

ahhhhnn...blue mat and blue shirt...very soothing on the eyes. 🤣🤣

now always the electronics have a fix, besides this kind of videos help us a lot to face this kind of issues, i had something similar for a ps4 back in time and was also fully shorted, i injected voltage and could get the faulty component , but when i changed it, still didn't work, i still have that motherboard as donor board.

It's heartbreaking to buy something for so much and it be unfixable, but at least you have a parts PS5 but an expensive one though. Hopefully the youtube fees will cover most of the price of the PS5. But again it's very sad to find such bad damage. I have to say though how absolutely brilliant these playstation designers are and how good are the circuit board builders to make a 4 or 5 layer board. I enjoyed this video as much as all your videos Vince, thank you for a wonderfully entertaining and knowledgeable video.

Good try! I hope you aren't too turned away from repairing consoles though, those are the videos I try to never miss

Can 't believe repair shop left metal part lying about inside. I think it was dropped and the big that came off shorter the capacitors. State of the cables also tells a story. Great video very intersting, even though we never got to hear you shouting YES!

man, you are a pro

Most people would flee just by looking at that mess, i say that's a Brave repair 👍

You are a king!

I could literally fall asleep while watching your videos great for education and entertainment i also like to play a game while watching trying to guess what components failed 🤣

Finally You've bought good hot air station Vince:).

Oh yeah....great video 👌

Nice effort and great pcb repair work Vince. Shame you didn't get it fixed but it was in very rough shape to begin with. Mashed ribbons, chewed wires, mangled usb ports and an elusive short on a multillayer board. A nightmare job. TronixFix does a lot of consoles, and he doesn't get a fix every time. Perhaps your next PS5 will be a winner. :)

Wow, three weeks went by quick! No bandage! *joke.* I wish you a speedy recovery, Vince!

Unlucky with that one Vince, never mind better luck next time. Great thumbnail though... 😂👍🏻

Your thumbnail gets a 10/10.

It was an ambitious endeavor.

GO MY MATE!

You could drill right through so you can see the layers are separate. But it usually means bodge wires and access to circuit diagram. Or it's just totaled.

Even though it wasnt fixed the video was very interesting.

"only issue is with the board" yeah, before the shop wrecked the USB ports, and all those cables, maybe.

Thumbnail game on point. :D

Good attempt, can't win them all. Pure guesswork on my part but the mosfet may have blown due to faulty caps or blew by itself but it appears that the caps were not refitted (would be worth comparing that area with the part working board) and that is asking for trouble. The shorted USB ports may have caused other damage and may be worth removing them to see if anything changes on the power rails. As you say, drawing 5A with no apparent heat spots may point to additional layer issues (as nothing appeared to be getting hot).

That thumbnail, hilarious.

From my experience. If multimeter give bad reading - time to change 9V battery.

Do you have a video on how to fix blown HDMI ports on TV my mate Vince?

With those new SMD MOSFET and other components, if they blow up, you have a great chance that it destroys the board and the device becomes unfixable. Another issue is that the MOSFET is part of a Voltage Regulator - for the APU. So if that got 12V, which is a possibility (and depends if the High side or Low Side of the MOSFET blew), the APU is dead.

That Mosfet go boom

Wow you have the patience of a Saint. I would have lost it half way through. If I am guessing at the root cause, my bet is on that the PS5 took a spill. Not enough to damage the case but sufficient to tank the USB cables clear out. That shorted the USB power. Potentially also momentarily pushing that shield against a trace an kaboom. Just SWAG.

Hi mate love the video do u won’t a MacBook motherboard in for a repair water damaged one for the Chanel and I’ll pay u

my first one failed due to the liquid metal escaping the little bit of sponge that was designed to keep it in then caused a short, not the best design.

Annoyingly, I watched this last night when in bed. Fell asleep, missed the outcome and restarted the video just now. Unfortunately it didn't rewind initially and was just at the point where Vince said "revisit". Created my own spoiler.

love the thumbnail!

Vince has had the expericance of undoing 50 million screws hard luck on this one

Frustrating, but well done for sticking with it.

I haven't worked on a PS5 but B4 giving up, Check Regulator supplying ram, if shorted and if not regulator, a ram chips may have failed.

Bummer! Still a good video though Vince!

I have a 55 inch c9 and a 48 inch CX. I had the CX as my main TV but then I noticed stuff on Disney didn't look as good as on the c9. I compared the two and found the c9 was brighter and the colours were better, especially blue and yellow, more accurate and richer. So now I've got the c9 as my main TV and the cx as my computer monitor. Is it known that the 55 inch version is better than the 48? I'm surprised how much better with HDR and Dolby vision the c9 is. The 48 cx is a very good TV but the 55 c9 just wows you all the time. The reflections , the colours, the contrast all special. Of course it's worse with old content and SD channels. Swapping back to the c9 it was like I'd bought a brand new oled again. It looks a bit big for our room but I'm willing to accept that now. The 48 is a bit sharper and makes a good computer monitor. I hadn't noticed the 48 CX was inferior when I set it up but I knew something was amiss when I watched my family's c8 and then mine when I got home. The c8 is pretty much the same as my c9 for quality.

I think... Another great trying to fix video. And that's what we are here for.

What a shame =( I suspect the repair shop made it worse by their initial digging around the traces?! The USB ports are very strange... How does a USB port get so badly damaged like that?!? Great attempt to fix this one though Vince =D

You probably wouldn’t want to Mr. Vince but have you tried putting the faulty board into your good working ps5 case off camera? Maybe theirs a broken trace on the power board or a broken trace somewhere coming from the power board onto the main board

I can't understand why the original owner didn't just get the console traded for a new one, unless the warranty time has passed of course. Or they trashed the USBs and knew they wouldn't get a new one under warranty. I also can't see a repair shop breaking all those wires, they surely would put it back together gently. Nice try though I'm still happily learning from this.

Come on Vince you’re not a quitter do a part 2 with fitting a new digital motherboard

That white part was supposed to be under the clamp over the cpu most likely was the result of it burning out like that because the clamp was sitting right on those small chips causing it to short to ground

Valiant effort Vince! How's the finger?

I think there was an internal short on the motherboard which caused it to burn out

Many years ago I had an IBM PS/2, which had all been designed to use proprietary IBM parts. They sold them at cost to businesses and then jacked up all their parts and repair prices to make their profit. I had a model 25, and one day when I went to slide a floppy disc in, it snapped the drive head off. I called IBM and they told me it was a known design flaw, that the drives had been designed to fit vertically, but had been installed horizontally on the model 25s; as a result, the drive head hung lower than spec and over time it would eventually catch and snap off. The system was two generations obsolete at the time, so I asked if I could get the pin-out on the floppy drive so I could make an adaptor and use a generic drive, and the tech was apologetic but said he wasn't allowed. The generic drive was $15, the proprietary IBM drive was $200. I hired an independent tech to reverse engineer the pin-out and make me an adaptor (cost me $20), and he said all they did was move the power pin from one side to the other; it had been specifically designed so that it would fry any generic component you tried to plug into it. So those mangled USBs could very easily have fried almost anything depending where the power was travelling.

Wow the thumbnail from this tho omg.

"So does doors haha" brilliant, gottem.

Vince I have a GPU that failed on me and would benefit from your expertise. It would make an interesting video